Yuja Wang in a live recording from Vienna’s Konzerthaus, with works by Beethoven, Scriabin, Albéniz, Kapustin, Ligeti, and Glass.
Tag: Beethoven
Review: Beethoven – Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”) – Budapest Festival Orchestra – Iván Fischer
Iván Fischer continues his Beethoven cycle with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, conducting the “Eroica” Symphony and Coriolan Overture.
Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, April 2024
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review this past month.
Review: Beethoven For Three – Symphony No. 4 and “Archduke” Trio – Ax, Kavakos, Ma
Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, and Yo-Yo Ma in Shai Wosner’s arrangement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 for piano trio. The group also performs the “Archduke” trio.
Review: Beatrice Rana Plays Beethoven and Chopin Piano Sonatas
Beatrice Rana explores two great Piano Sonatas, the “Hammerklavier” by Beethoven and “Funeral March” by Chopin.
Review: Beethoven – Missa Solemnis – Savall
Following their Beethoven symphony cycle, Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations now present Beethoven’s monumental mass.
Year In Review – Our Top Classical Albums for 2023
We go over a lot of classical music albums during the year, so when 2023 comes to an end it’s time for members of The Classic Review staff to pick their favorite albums of the year.
Review: Beethoven – Violin Concerto – Nemanja Radulović, Violin
Nemanja Radulović returns with his Double Sens ensemble in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and the soloist’s own orchestration of the Kreutzer sonata.
Review: Beethoven – The 5 Piano Concertos – Garrick Ohlsson
A live performance of the complete Beethoven piano concerto cycle featuring Garrick Ohlsson, Sir Donald Runnicles and the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra.
Review: Beethoven – Violin Concerto – María Dueñas, Wiener Symphoniker, Honeck
María Dueñas in a new rendition of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with the Wiener Symphoniker, conducted by Manfred Honeck.
