This week Hammered! takes its programmatic cue from the probing musical curiosity of pianist Alexei Lubimov and begins Monday with a recital recorded last year live at Lincoln Center's inaugural White Light Festival, which is currently midway through another illuminating installation of performances for its 2011 festival.

This week's programmatic sorbet on Hammered features unlikely pairings: Bach and Rzewski, Beethoven and Ligeti. Find out what these jarring relationships say about the music at hand.

It's pledge drive time beginning Tuesday at Q2 Music and we're offering the best of the best as thanks for supporting our New-Music Experiment. Listen all week for the sounds that help define our station: from John Adams to Missy Mazzoli and perhaps some newly discovered favorites in between.

What do you get when you combine the talents of two expert curators, 16 world-class ensembles and over 100 young composers? You get an atwitter Q2 Music and the first-ever SONiC Festival, an exciting and diverse new-music festival whose participants we'll preview all week at 11 am and 11 pm on Hammered!. 

The eternally youthful, endlessly listenable Steve Reich turns three-quarters of a century young on Monday and Hammered! is joining the group hug. Tune in 11 am and 11 pm all week for a celebration of Reich's keyboard and ensemble music.

Hammered! returns with brand new fall episodes chock-full of repertoire never before heard on Q2 Music. Tune in all week at 11 am and 11 pm for Q2 Music premieres drawn from rarely heard tracks, recently released albums and compositional up-and-comers.

This week on Hammered!, you asked for it! We'll revisit chamber music from April's Trout Week, only this time you're the programmers!

In Ricardo Romaneiro's arrangement of John Corigliano's Grammy-winning soundtrack for Altered States, acoustic and electronics aren't quite flirting with each other; they're having a genetically mutated love-child. Listen to the Metropolis Ensemble perform this altered film score and other concert works which synthesize acoustic and electronic sound.

To pre-game the 2011 Keys to the Future Festival in New York, tune into Hammered! for highlights from last year's festival, including works by Don Byron, Marc Mellits, Annie Gosfield, Chick Corea, Magnus Lindberg, Gyorgy Ligeti and others.

This week, Conor Hanick explores Tom Johnson's An Hour For Piano, La Monte Young's The Well-Tuned Piano Three, John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano, plus works by Ann Southam and Frederic Rzewski.

Tune into Hammered! this week for piano works by composers currently and previously featured by the MATA festival with performances from MATA's deep roster of musicians.

We're getting rugged this week and doing it live! Tune in 11 am/pm for a week's worth of nothing-but-live recordings taken from piano performances recorded in New York City.

This week on Cued Up, Q2 host and contemporary pianist Conor Hanick handpicks some of his favorite live performances by the New York Philharmonic from the last three seasons, including works of Ives, Webern, Lindberg and others.

On this specially curated week of Hammered! we spotlight a new album of piano music by New York-based composer Ryan Anthony Francis. The record features Bang On A Can pianist Vicky Chow, who, with Francis, joins Hammered! throughout the week with insights on this exquisite new body of piano music.

On this specially curated week of Hammered! we spotlight a new album of piano music by New York-based composer Ryan Anthony Francis. The record features Bang On A Can pianist Vicky Chow, who, with Francis, joins Hammered! throughout the week with insights on this exquisite new body of piano music.

On this specially curated week of Hammered! we spotlight a new album of piano music by New York-based composer Ryan Anthony Francis. The record features Bang On A Can pianist Vicky Chow, who, with Francis, joins Hammered! throughout the week with insights on this exquisite new body of piano music.

On this specially-curated week of Hammered! we spotlight a new album of piano music by New York-based composer Ryan Anthony Francis. The record features Bang On A Can pianist Vicky Chow, who, with Francis, joins Hammered! throughout the week.

On this specially curated week of Hammered! we spotlight a new album of piano music by New York-based composer Ryan Anthony Francis. The record features Bang On A Can pianist Vicky Chow, who, with Francis, joins Hammered! throughout the week with insights on this exquisite new body of piano music.

Pianistic virtuosity is often associated with technical bravura. There is, however, a yang to technique's yin and that's musical virtuosity, a topic we explore this week on Hammered! through the complete piano works of Gavin Bryars.