The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Tag: Choral
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.
Bach – A beginners Guide
Where to start when you want to get to know the music of Bach, one of the leading figures in the late Baroque era? Here are 10 pieces which represent a good place to start if one wants to get familiar with Bach’s music.
Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, July 2020
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Review: Bruckner, Stravinsky – Mass for Choir and Wind – Rundfunkchor Berlin
Gijs Leenaars performs Bruckner and Stravinsky’s two Masses for choir and wind instruments, with the Rundfunkchor and Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.
Review: Cyrillus Kreek – The Suspended Harp of Babel – Vox Clamantis
ECM Records presents a collection of psalms and folk-songs arranged for choir by the Estonian composer Cyrillus Kreek, by Estonian choir Vox Clamantis (2020).
Review: “Inferno” – Motets By Lassus – Cappella Amsterdam, Reuss
Motets for six and eight voices by Ronaldo De Lassus (1530-1594), performed by the Cappella Amsterdam under Daniel Reuss (Harmonia Mundi, 2020).
