We go over a lot of classical music albums during the year, so when 2020 comes to an end it’s time for members of The Classic Review staff to pick their favorite albums of the year.
Tag: Choral
Review: Britten – Saint Nicolas, A Ceremony of Carols – BBC Concert Orchestra, Crouch End Festival Chorus, Temple
The BBC Concert Orchestra accompanies the Crouch End Festival Chorus in Benjamin Britten’s Saint Nicolas and A Ceremony of Carols, conducted by David Temple.
Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, November 2020
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Review: Haydn – Die Schöpfung (The Creation) – Antonini
Giovanni Antonini and Il Giardino Armonico perform Haydn’s “Die Schöpfung” (The Creation), with soloists Anna Lucia Richter, Maximilian Schmitt and Florian Boesch.
Review: Bach – Motets – Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Ensemble Pygmalion, under the direction of Raphaël Pichon, perform Bach’s six Motets, together with motets by other composers on a new recording for Harmonia Mundi.
Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, October 2020
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Review: Bach – Johannes Passion – Bach Collegium Japan – Suzuki (2020)
20 years after their first recording, The Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki return to the St. John Passion, in a new recording made in Köln.
Review: Ethel Smyth – “The Prison” – Burton, Brailey, Experiential Orchestra, Blachly
A premiere recording of Dame Ethel Smyth’s “The Prison” – With Dashon Burton, Sarah Brailey, and the Experiential Orchestra under James Blachly.
Review: Mozart – Mass in C Minor – Les Musiciens du Louvre , Minkowski
Les Musiciens du Louvre and Marc Minkowski perform Mozart’s great mass, with soloists Ana Maria Labin, Ambroisine Bré, Stanislas de Barbeyrac and Norman Patzke.
Review: Beethoven – Symphony No. 9, Choral Fantasy – Bezuidenhout, Heras-Casado
Pablo Heras-Casado conducts the Freiburger Barockorchester in Beethoven “choral” Symphony. Kristian Bezuidenhout joins for the Choral Fantasy.
