The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review in the past month.
Mahler – Das Lied von der Erde
Vladimir Jurowski
Vladimir Jurowski conducts the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra with soloist Dame Sarah Connolly and Robert Dean Smith on a new recording for Pentatone.
Rachmaninoff – Piano Works
Sergei Babayan
Pianist Sergei Babayan performs a selection of piano works by Rachmaninoff, including Préludes, Études-Tableaux and Moments Musicaux.
Bach – Johannes Passion
Bach Collegium Japan, Suzuki
20 years after their first recording, The Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki return to the St. John Passion, in a new recording made in Köln.
“Encounter”
Igor Levit, piano
Igor Levit plays piano transcriptions of music by Bach, Brahms and Reger, with Morton Feldman’s “Palais de Mari”.
Janáček – The Cunning Little Vixen, Sinfonietta – Rattle
Simon Rattle returns to Janáček’s opera, this time in the original Czech, along with the Sinfonietta. Soloists are joined by the London Symphony Orchestra.
Mozart Arias (II)
Regula Mühlemann, soprano
Soprano Regula Mühlemann in her second album of Mozart’s arias, with the Kammerorchester Basel under Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli.
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