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Review: Adès Conducts Adès – Kirill Gerstein, Piano
Thomas Adès performs two of his works with the Boston Symphony Orchestra - the Piano Concerto with soloist Kirill Gerstein and "Totentanz”.
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Review: Mozart – Piano Concertos, Vol 5 – Bavouzet
In the fifth volume of Bavouzet's Mozart Piano Concertos cycle for Chandos, Bavouzet player the early Concertos No. 5 to 9 ("Jeunehomme").
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Double Review: Chopin Piano Concertos – Grosvenor, Yundi
Benjamin Grosvenor and Yundi Li have both released albums with Chopin's Piano Concertos.
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Review: Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 2 and 5 – Bezuidenhout, Heras-Casado
Kristian Bezuidenhout begins a new cycle of Beethoven's Piano Concerto, with the Freiburger Barockorchestrer under Pablo Heras-Casado.
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Review: Tchaikovsky, Barber Violin Concertos – Johan Dalene
On his debut recording for BIS, violinist Johan Dalene plays Tchaikovsky and Barber's Violin Concertos with Norrköping Symphony Orchestra and Daniel Blendulf.
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Review: Nielsen, Ibert, Arnold – Flute Concertos – Clara Andrada
Flutist Clara Andrada plays three flute concertos from the twentieth century, with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra under Jaime Martín.
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Review: Saint-Saëns – Piano Concertos 3 and 5 – Lortie, Gardner
The second volume of Louis Lortie and Edward Gardner's cycle of the complete Piano Concertos by Saint-Saëns, with the BBC Philharmonic.
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Review: Elgar – Cello Concerto – Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Rattle
Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason performs Elgar's Cello Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle.
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Review: Ravel – Piano Concerto, Le Tombeau de Couperin – Perianes, Pons
Ravel's Piano Concerto is programmed with Le Tombeau de Couperin and “Alborada del gracioso” from “Miroirs”, in both piano and orchestra versions.
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Year in Review – The Top 10 Most Popular Classical Music Reviews of 2019
For our last post in 2019, we went back and checked our statistics, finding out which reviews were most popular this year.