A programme devoted to Viennese composers of the early twentieth century, including Berg, Zemlinsky, Korngold and Schönberg.
Tag: Mahler
Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, July 2020
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Review: Mahler – Symphony No. 7 – Minnesota Orchestra, Vänskä
Osmo Vänskä And the Minnesota Orchestra continue their ongoing Mahler cycle, this time with Symphony No. 7 (“Song of the Night”).
Review: Mahler – Symphony No. 8 – Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra in Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand”.
Review: "Clytemnestra" – Ruby Hughes, Soprano
Ruby Hughes performs Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder, Berg’s Altenberg Lieder and Rhian Samuel’s “Clytemnestra” with BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Jac van Steen.
Year in Review – The Top 10 Most Popular Classical Music Reviews of 2019
For our last post in 2019, we went back and checked our statistics, finding out which reviews were most popular this year.
Review: Mahler – Symphony No. 4 – Minnesota Orchestra, Vänskä
Osmo Vänskä continues his Mahler cycle with the Minnesota orchestra for BIS, arriving at Symphony No. 4. Carolyn Sampson joins for the final movement.
Review: Mahler – Symphony No. 8 – Ádám Fischer
Ádám Fischer continues his Mahler cycle with the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker, arriving to the eights, “Symphony of the Thousand”.
Review: “Like to the Lark” – The Swedish Chamber Choir – Pike, Forsström, Phipps
Violinist Jennifer Pike and Mezzo Maria Forsström join the Swedish Chamber Choir under Simon Phipps, in music by Vaughan Williams and others.
Review: Mahler – Symphony No. 4 – LPO, Jurowski
Vladimir Jurowski conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and soprano Sofia Fomina (2019).
