Beginners Guides
Tal Agam - July 31, 2025
A guide to Mahler’s Symphony No. 9, with historical background, analysis, and recommendations for the best recordings.
David A. McConnell - February 1, 2023
A guide to Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 with historical background, analysis, and recommendations for the best recordings.
Best of
The Classic Review - November 13, 2025
The Classic Review editorial team’s recommendations for the best recordings of Brahms’s Double Concerto for violin, cello, and orchestra.
The Classic Review - October 8, 2025
The Classic Review editorial team’s recommendations for the best recordings of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet Suites.
News
The Classic Review - November 1, 2025
Warner Classics Restores Karajan’s Berlin Recordings to Streaming, Starting on Apple Music.
The Classic Review - April 1, 2024
Emoji Scores? The ICN proposes a radical shift in musical notation.
Interviews
The Classic Review - November 19, 2025
Violinist Pavel Šporcl answers The Classic Review’s 10 questions. Where will he most likely find inspiration? How many hours does he practice each day? And what is the classical music albums he couldn’t live without?
The Classic Review - February 5, 2025
Pianist Lise de la Salle answers The Classic Review’s 10 questions. Where will she most likely find inspiration? How many hours does she practice each day? And what is the classical music albums she couldn’t live without?
The Classic Review - August 22, 2024
Pianist Anna Fedorova answers The Classic Review’s 10 questions.
Where will she most likely find inspiration, how many hours does she practice a day, and what are the classical music albums she couldn’t live without.
The Classic Review - April 21, 2020
Pianist Umberto Jacopo Laureti writes for The Classic Review about three classical music albums he couldn’t live without.
Album Reviews
Tal Agam - November 27, 2025
Víkingur Ólafsson plays Bach’s sixth keyboard partita, Beethoven’s piano sonatas Op. 90 & 109, and Schubert’s Piano Sonata D. 566.
David A. McConnell - November 17, 2025
Review of two new recordings of Mahler’s second symphony. Kahchun Wong conducts the Hallé Orchestra, and Simone Young conducts the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
David A. McConnell - November 2, 2025
Paavo Järvi leads the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich in Mahler’s symphony No. 1 (“Titan”).
Tal Agam - October 23, 2025
Martin Helmchen in the first volume of Schubert complete Piano Sonatas cycle.
Beginners Guides
Tal Agam - July 31, 2025
A guide to Mahler’s Symphony No. 9, with historical background, analysis, and recommendations for the best recordings.
David A. McConnell - February 1, 2023
A guide to Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 with historical background, analysis, and recommendations for the best recordings.
Azusa Ueno - June 12, 2021
A guide to Debussy’s two books of Préludes, with background, analysis and recommendations for the best recordings.
The Classic Review - July 6, 2020
Where to start when you want to get to know the music of Bach, one of the leading figures in the late Baroque era? Here are 10 pieces which represent a good place to start if one wants to get familiar with Bach’s music.
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