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.
Tag: Baroque
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Review: Hammerschmidt – “Ach Jesus Stirbt” – Vox Luminis, Meunier
Vox Luminis and Lionel Meunier perform church music by Andreas Hammerschmidt (1611-1675).
Review: Monteverdi – il terzo libro de’ madrigali – Alessandrini
Rinaldo Alessandrini returns to Monteverdi with Concerto Italiano, 15 years after his last recording of the composer.
Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, December 2020
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
