Album Reviews
Notable Classical Music Box Sets, February 2026
Notable classical music box sets worth exploring.
Twentieth Century
Album Reviews
Review: Giorgi Gigashvili Plays Prokofiev – ‘With All My Breath and All My Blood’
Giorgi Gigashvili plays Prokofiev's "War Sonatas" for piano. Violinist Lisa Batiashvili joins in two short pieces.
Album Reviews
Review: Mendelssohn, Enescu – Octets – Quatuor Ébène, Belcea Quartet
Quatuor Ébène and the Belcea Quartet join forces to play Octets by Mendelssohn and Enescu.
Album Reviews
Review: Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No. 3, Tchaikovsky – Nutcracker Suite – Nobuyuki Tsujii
Nobuyuki Tsujii plays Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3, and Pletnev's piano arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. With the Liverpool Philharmonic under Domingo Hindoyan.
Album Reviews
Review: Mahler – Symphony No. 7 – National Symphony Orchestra – Gianandrea Noseda
Gianandrea Noseda conducts the National Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Symphony No. 7 ("Song of the Night").
Best of
Year In Review – The Best Classical Music Albums, 2025
Discover the best classical music albums of the year (2025), handpicked by The Classic Review staff.
Album Reviews
Review: Avril Coleridge-Taylor – Piano Concerto & Orchestral Works – Ege, BBC Philharmonic, Andrews
Samantha Ege, the BBC Philharmonic and John Andrews perform Avril Coleridge-Taylor's Piano Concerto and orchestral works.
Album Reviews
Review: Radu Lupu – The Unreleased Recordings
6-CD box set of previously unreleased recordings by pianist Radu Lupu.
Album Reviews
Review: Rachmaninoff – The Bells, Elgar – Falstaff – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Vasily Petrenko conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Rachmaninoff's "The Bells" and Elgar's "Falstaff".
Album Reviews
Notable Classical Music Box Sets, November 2025
Notable classical music box sets worth exploring.