In Short – 5 Albums Worth Your Listen – July 2025
Five new classical music albums worth checking out.
Album Reviews
Review: Brahms – Symphonies No. 3 & 4 – Kent Nagano
Kent Nagano conducts the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg in Brahms' third and fourth symphonies.
Review: Shostakovich – Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87 – Yulianna Avdeeva, Piano
Pianist Yulianna Avdeeva plays the complete set of Preludes and Fugues Op. 87 by Shostakovich.
Review: Mendelssohn – A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Pablo Heras-Casado
Pablo Heras-Casado conducts the RIAS Kammerchor and the Freiburger Barockorchester in Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, played on period instruments.
Review: Haydn – Complete Symphonies, Vol. 17 – Kammerorchester Basel, Antonini
Giovanni Antonini continues his Haydn 2032 series of the complete symphonies, this time with Nos. 13, 16 and 36, along with the first violin concerto.
Review: “Somnia” – Denis Kozhukhin, Piano
Denis Kozhukhin plays Prokofiev's Music For Children, Tchaikovsky's Children's Album, and Shor's second piano sonata.
Review: Furtwängler – Symphony No. 2 – Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Neeme Järvi conducts the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra in Wilhelm Furtwängler's Symphony No.2.
Review: Mozart – Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3 – Angela Hewitt
The final volume of Angela Hewitt's Mozart cycle, with the late piano sonatas and other works.
Review: Sibelius – Symphony No. 5, Serenades, Swanwhite Suite – Tetzlaff, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Collon
Nicholas Collon conducts the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius' fifth symphony, Serenades, and the Swanwhite Suite, with violinist Christian Tezlaff.
Review: ‘L’extase’ – Debussy & Messiaen Songs – Magdalena Kožená, Mitsuko Uchida
Magdalena Kožená and Mitsuko Uchida perform songs by Debussy and Messiaen.