Antony and the Johnsons: Swanlights

In late 2010, fey, soulful singing enigma Antony issued Swanlights, a ravishing album filled with sweeping, histrionic emotion and subtle balladry, then presented some of its songs in ornate orchestral arrangements at Lincoln Center. Seems that the Museum of Modern Art was paying attention, because that institution commissioned Antony and three savvy young composer-arrangers—Rob Moose, Maxim Moston and Nico Muhly—to fashion an evening-length spectacle for Radio City. In a word: swoon.