Review: Bach – Concertos For 2, 3, 4 Pianos – David Fray
David Fray joins a group of 3 more pianists to record Bach's multiple pianos concertos.
Album Reviews
Review: “In Concert” – Till Fellner Plays Liszt, Beethoven (ECM)
Till Fellner in impressive two concerts recordings, playing Liszt's Années de pèlerinage and Beethoven's last piano sonata, Op. 111.
Review: “BAÏKA” – Nemanja Radulovic
Khachaturian’s Violin Concerto is quite a rarity these days, unjustifiably so. Violinist Nemanja Radulovic puts this concerto as the center of a well planned, “oriental” related theme album,…
Review: Seong-Jin Cho Plays Mozart (DG)
Seong-Jin Cho (조성진) , winner of the 2015 Chopin Competition, has already produced good albums with music by Chopin and Debussy. Now he turns his attention to Mozart,…
Review: Schubert – Death and the Maiden Quartet and D. 173 – The Chiaroscuro Quartet
There always seems to be two extreme approaches to Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” String Quartet – The energetic, swift and sometimes rough approach (The Lindsays, Takács and…
Review: Les Défis de Monsieur Forqueray – Lucile Boulanger, Viola da Gamba
Antoine Forqueray (1672-1745), a French Baroque composer and Viola da Gamba master, is the center of this fascinating album. Lucie Boulanger chose pieces which this rather forgotten figure…
New Album Review – Fabian Müller Plays Brahms
Fabian Müller gives a fascinating Brahms recital, that may be considered among the best in recent years.
Review: Daniel Harding Conducts Mahler Symphony No. 5
This release of Mahler's Fifth Symphony is the second of what Harmonia Mundi says will be a cycle of the Mahler Symphonies from Daniel Harding and the orchestra…
Review: Philip Glass Symphony No. 11 – Dennis Russell Davies
It seems that the time when music critics debated whether Philip Glass can be considered a “classical music” composer, or rather frame him forcefully into this or that…
Album Review: Maxim Emelyanychev Conducts Beethoven And Brahms
Maxim Emelyanychev conducts the soloists of Nizhny Novgorod in Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony and Brahms's Haydn Variations.