Review: Scriabin – Vers la Flamme – Yevgeny Sudbin, Piano
Pianist Yevgeny Sudbin presents a Scriabin program, including Vers la flamme, piano sonatas No. 4 & 10, preludes and etudes.
Album Reviews
Review: ‘Chopin Intime” – Justin Taylor, Pianino Pleyel 1839
Justin Taylor plays Chopin on a Pleyel Pianino from 1839, including Preludes, Nocturnes Mazurkas and Etudes.
Review: Shostakovich – The Piano Concertos, Solo Works – Yuja Wang
Yuja Wang performs Shostakovich's two piano concertos and solo works, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Andris Nelsons.
Review: Brahms – Complete Symphonies – Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in his second recording of the complete Brahms symphonies.
Review: Mozart – Haffner-Akademie – Anna Prohaska, Ensemble Resonanz, Riccardo Minasi
Mozart's opera arias and the Haffner symphony, performed by Soprano Anna Prohaska with Ensemble Resonanz under Riccardo Minasi.
Double Review: Steinbacher and Benedetti play Beethoven’s Violin Concerto
Arabella Steinbacher and Nicola Benedetti in two new albums that include Beethoven's violin concerto. Steinbacher adds a new violin concerto by Georges Lentz.
In Short – 5 Albums Worth Your Listen – May 2025
Five new classical music albums worth checking out.
Review: ‘Beethoven 5, Vol. 3’ – Jonathan Biss
Jonathan Biss continues his Beethoven piano concertos cycle, with the second concerto, adding Timo Andres' 'the Blind Banister'.
Review: Wagner – Der fliegende Holländer – Lise Davidsen, Gerald Finley, Edward Gardner
Lise Davidsen and Gerald Finley take on the leading roles in Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer, conducted by Edward Gardner.
Review: Michael Daugherty – Blue Electra – Anne Akiko Meyers, Albany Symphony, David Alan Miller
The Albany Symphony under David Alan Miller perform works by Michael Daugherty, including a violin concerto with violinist Anne Akiko Meyers.