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Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, November 2021
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Concerto
Album Reviews
Review: Bartók – Concerto for Orchestra and Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta – Mälkki
Susanna Mälkki and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra continue their Bartók series with new readings of masterpieces from his final years.
Album Reviews
Review: Mozart – Piano Concertos 20 & 25 – Jeremy Denk, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Jeremy Denk features as both soloist and conductor with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, performing Mozart's Piano Concertos K. 466 and K. 503.
Album Reviews
Review: Brahms – Piano Concerto No. 1 – Melnikov, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Bolton
Alexander Melnikov plays a Blüthner piano from 1859 in Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1, with Sinfonieorchester Basel under Ivor Bolton.
Album Reviews
Review: Chopin – Piano Concerto No. 2, Scherzi – Seong-Jin Cho
Seong-Jin Cho completes his Chopin's Piano Concertos cycle with the LSO and Gianandrea Noseda, together with the four Scherzi.
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Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, September 2021
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Album Reviews
Review: Joan Tower – “Strike Zones”, “Ivory and Ebony” – Evelyn Glennie, Blair McMillen
Dame Evelyn Glennie and Blair McMillen on Joan Tower's contemporary Concertos for percussion and piano, with the Albany Symphony under David Alan Miller.
Album Reviews
Review: “Baroque” – Nicola Benedetti, Violin
Nicola Benedetti and the "Benedetti Baroque Orchestra" play Violin Concertos by Geminiani and Vivaldi.
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Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, August 2021
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Album Reviews
Review: Handel – Organ Concertos – Joseph, Haselböck, Wiener Akademie
Jeremy Joseph plays Handel's Op. 7 Organ Concertos, and Martin Haselböck plays and conducts in the Organ Concertos Op. 4, with the Wiener Akademie.