Album Reviews
Review: “Roots” – Randall Goosby, Violin
Violinist Randall Goosby in his debut album, with pianist Zhu Wang and contrabass player and composer Xavier Dubois Foley.
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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.
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Review: “Reimagine: Beethoven and Ravel” – Inna Faliks, Piano
Pianist Inna Faliks combines Beethoven’s Op. 126 Bagatelles with nine new contemporary pieces, some influenced by Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit.
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Review: “First Light” – Pekka Kuusisto, Nico Muhly
Pekka Kuusisto plays a new Violin Concerto by Nico Muhly, with works by Philip Glass.
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Review: “Divertissement!” – c/o Chamber Orchestra play Ibert, Bernard, Bartók and Ippolito
On their debut recording, the c/o Chamber Orchestra perform Divertimenti by Ibert, Bernard, Bartók and Ippolito.
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Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, June 2021
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Album Reviews
Review: “In Umbra Mortis” – Cappella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss
Daniel Reuss conducts Cappella Amsterdam in a program which combines Renaissance composer Giaches de Wert and contemporary composer Wolfgang Rihm.
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Review: “The Brandenburg Project” – Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard
Thomas Dausgaard and the Swedish Chamber Orchestra in a program of Bach's six Brandenburg Concertos with 6 works by contemporary composers.
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Review: “Paris” – Hilary Hahn, Violin
Hilary Hahn plays Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 1, Chausson's Poèm and two Sèrènades by Rautavaara, with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France under Mikko Franck.
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Review: “Hallgató” – Ferenc Snétberger, Keller Quartett
Guitarist Ferenc Snétberger in his own Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra with the Keller String Quartet, and Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 8 (ECM, 2021)