Album Reviews
Review: Schumann – Complete Piano Trios, Piano Quartet, Piano Quintet – Trio Wanderer
Trio Wanderer in Schumann's complete piano trios, with the Piano Quintet and Quartet.
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Review: The Juilliard String Quartet Plays Beethoven, Bartók, Dvořák
The Juilliard String Quartet, with a new first violinist, perform Beethoven second "Razumovsky" quartet, Bartók's String Quartet No. 3, and Dvořák's "American Quartet.
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Review: Elgar – Violin Concerto, Violin Sonata – Renaud Capuçon, Simon Rattle, Stephen Hough
Renaud Capuçon is accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra in Elgar's Violin Concerto, and is joined by Stephen Hough in the Violin Sonata.
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Review: Haydn – String Quartets Op. 76 – Chiaroscuro Quartet
Chiaroscuro Quartet perform the six Strings Quartets, Op. 76, by Joseph Haydn.
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Review: “Hallgató” – Ferenc Snétberger, Keller Quartett
Guitarist Ferenc Snétberger in his own Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra with the Keller String Quartet, and Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8 (ECM, 2021)
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Review: “Songs of Comfort & Hope” – Yo Yo Ma, Kathryn Stott
Yo Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott in a program of arrangements for cello and piano.
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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.
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Review: Trio Zeliha plays Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, Arensky
In a debut album, Trio Zeliha perform Shostakovich. Arensky and Mendelssohn's first Piano Trios.
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Review: “Mirrors” – 21st Century Piano Trios – Lysander Piano Trio
The Lysander Piano Trio perform 21st century American piano trios.
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Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, January 2021
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.