This box set groups Benjamin Frith’s 6 volumes of the Irish composer’s Piano Concertos and Nocturnes, with four Piano Sonatas.
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Review: Gautier Capuçon Plays Schumann
Review: Gautier Capuçon plays Schumann’s Cello Concerto and chamber works with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under Bernard Haitink and Martha Argerich.
Review: Bach Violin Concertos – Shunske Sato
Violinist Shunske Sato performs Bach’s violin concertos and Double Concerto, with the period instruments group “Il Pomo D’oro”.
Review – Ronald Brautigam Plays Mendelssohn’s Piano Concertos (2018)
Ronald Brautigam performs Mendelssohn Piano Concertos on period instruments, in his second version for these pieces.
A Year In Review – The Top 10 Most Popular Classical Music Album Reviews Of 2018
Photo by Steven VanDesande Jr on Unsplash As we say goodbye to 2018, we took a look at our stats and checked which were the most read classical music reviews in the past [ … ]
Review: Xiayin Wang Plays Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos No. 1&3, Scriabin Piano Concerto
Review: Pianist Xiayin Wang performs Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concertos No. 1 & 3, along with Scriabin rarely heard Piano Concerto.
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.
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, named “BAÏKA” (“Tale”).
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, giving a persuasive account of the dark D Minor Piano Concerto and two solo Sonatas.
Review: “Destination Rachmaninov – Departure” – Piano Concertos No. 2 & 4 – Daniil Trifonov
Following their much-praised release of Rachmaninov’s “Paganini Variations”, Daniil Trifonov, the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin start with what will become a complete cycle of the Rachmaninov Piano Concertos. This release includes the famous Second Concerto, along with the less popular Fourth, the later recorded live in Philadelphia.
