Sébastien Daucé leads Ensemble Correspondances in Bach’s cantatas BWV 4, 106, 131.
Tag: Baroque
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.
Review: “Baroque Encores” – David Fray, Piano
David Fray in works by Bach, Handel, Rameau, Scarlatti and Couperin.
Review: “Opus 109” – Víkingur Ólafsson, Piano
Víkingur Ólafsson plays Bach’s sixth keyboard partita, Beethoven’s piano sonatas Op. 90 & 109, and Schubert’s Piano Sonata D. 566.
In Short – 5 Recent Bach Albums – November 2025
Five recent Bach albums by Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Martin Fröst, Isabelle Faust, Inbal Megiddo, and Antoine Morinière & Thibaut Garcia.
In Short – 5 Albums Worth Your Listen – December 2025
Brief reviews of five recent classical albums: Bach Cantatas with Ensemble Correspondances and Sébastien Daucé, the Nash Ensemble play Ravel, Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 with the National Symphony Orchestra under Gianandrea Noseda, Haydn’s Op. 76 String Quartets with Quatuor Arod, and Mikhail Pletnev in Preludes by Chopin and Scriabin.
Review: Bach – The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 – Mahan Esfahani, Harpsichord
Mahan Esfahani plays the first book of Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier on the harpsichord.
Review: Itzhak Perlman – The Complete Warner Classics Edition (78 CDs)
A box set celebrating Itzhak Perlman’s 80th birthday, with all the recordings he made for Warner Classics between 1972-2016.
Review: Javier Perianes Plays Scarlatti
Pianist Javier Perianes performs 15 keyboard sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti.
Review: Purcell – Dido & Aeneas – Joyce DiDonato, Il Pomo d’Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
Joyce DiDonato takes the lead role in Purcell’s Dido & Aeneas, with Il Pomo d’Oro under Maxim Emelyanychev. Other cast members include Michael Spyres, Fatma Said and Beth Taylor.
