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.
Concerto
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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.
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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.
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Review: “Mozart and Flute in Paris” – Emmanuel Pahud
Emmanuel Pahud in works either written in Paris or inspired by the French school of flute playing, including Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp.
Album Reviews
Review: Beethoven – Complete Piano Concertos – Zimerman, LSO, Rattle
Three decades after his famous cycle with Bernstein, Krystian Zimerman returns to Beethoven's five Piano Concertos with Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra.
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Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, July 2021
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Album Reviews
Review: “First Light” – Pekka Kuusisto, Nico Muhly
Pekka Kuusisto plays a new Violin Concerto by Nico Muhly, with works by Philip Glass.