“The violist Nadia Sirota is both a member of the industrious, always-fascinating yMusic and a one-woman contemporary-classical commissioning machine: Her first album, First Things First, brought together new works from indie-classical mainstays like Nico Muhly, Judd Greenstein, and Marcos Balter. Her follow-up, Baroque, includes an étude written for her by Muhly.
Usually, an étude is a functional ”
