Album Reviews
Review: “Il delirio della passione” – Monteverdi Arias – Anna Lucia Richter, Soprano
Soprano Anna Lucia Richter in arias by Monteverdi, with Ensemble Claudiana and Luca Pianca.
Baroque
Album Reviews
Review: “Proust, Le Concert Retrouvé” – Théotime Langlois De Swarte, Tanguy De Williencourt
A recreation of a salon concert organized by writer Marcel Proust in 1907, played on period instruments.
Album Reviews
Review: Bach-Busoni – Goldberg Variations, Chaconne – Chiyan Wong
Chiyan Wong performs Bach's Goldberg Variations in the Busoni edition (1914), with the Busoni's arrangement of Bach's Chaconne from the second violin Partita.
Best of
Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, March 2021
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Album Reviews
Review: John Eccles – “Semele” – AAM, Perkins
A new recording of John Eccles' rarely heard opera, "Semele", with the Academy of Ancient Music under Julian Perkins.
Album Reviews
Review: Bach – Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II (Excerpts) – Piotr Anderszewski
Piotr Anderszewski plays 12 Preludes and Fugues from the second book of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier.
Album Reviews
Review: “Contralto” – Nathalie Stutzmann, Orfeo 55
Contralto Nathalie Stutzmann features as both a soloist and conductor in works by Handel, Vivaldi, and Lotti, and a handful of world-premieres by other Baroque composers.
Best of
Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, February 2021
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Album Reviews
Review: Bach – “Soli Deo Gloria” – Cantatas 21,76 – Collegium Vocale Gent, Ricercar Consort, Pierlot
Philippe Pierlot conducts the Collegium Vocale Gent and the Ricercar Consort in Bach's Cantatas BWV 21 and 76.
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Review: Hammerschmidt – “Ach Jesus Stirbt” – Vox Luminis, Meunier
Vox Luminis and Lionel Meunier perform church music by Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611-1675).