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Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, October 2021

The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review in the past month.

“Mozart & Contemporaries” – Víkingur Ólafsson

Víkingur Ólafsson explores piano music by Mozart and his contemporaries like Haydn, CPE Bach, Galuppi and Cimarosa.

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Rachmaninov – Symphony No. 2 – Ticciati

Robin Ticciati conducts the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in Rachmaninov’s second Symphony.

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Passions” – Véronique Gens

Soprano Véronique Gens in a sequence of works by Lully, Collasse and Desmarets, forming “an imaginative opera”.

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“On DSCH” – Igor Levit

Pianist Igor Levit performs Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues, with Ronald Stevenson’s Passacaglia On DSCH.

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Bach – Goldberg Variations – Hannes Minnaar

Hannes Minnaar performs Bach’s Goldberg Variations on a Chris Maene straight-strung piano.

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“Phidylé” – Kateřina Kněžíková

Soprano Kateřina Kněžíková collaborates with Robert Jindra and the Janáček Philharmonic in a series of songs from the turn of the 20th century.

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