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 23, 2024
A guide to Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 (“Scottish”), with historical background, analysis, and recommendations for the best recordings.
Best of
The Classic Review - December 3, 2025
Discover the best classical music albums of the year (2025), handpicked by The Classic Review staff.
The Classic Review - October 30, 2025
The Classic Review editorial team’s recommendations for the best recordings of Chopin two piano concertos.
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 - December 19, 2025
Brief reviews of five recent classical albums: Bach Cantatas with Ensemble Correspondances and Sébastien Daucé, the Nash Ensemble play Ravel, Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 with the National Symphony Orchestra under Gianandrea Noseda, Haydn’s Op. 76 String Quartets with Quatuor Arod, and Mikhail Pletnev in Preludes by Chopin and Scriabin.
The Classic Review - December 5, 2025
Václav Neumann’s late Mahler cycle on the Canyon label is available for streaming.
David A. McConnell - November 24, 2025
Vasily Petrenko conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Rachmaninoff’s “The Bells” and Elgar’s “Falstaff”.
David A. McConnell - November 10, 2025
Karina Canellakis conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s symphonies No. 5 & 6 (“Pathétique”).
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 23, 2024
A guide to Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 (“Scottish”), 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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