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Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, October 2020
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Mozart
Album Reviews
Review: Regula Mühlemann, Soprano – Mozart Arias II
Soprano Regula Mühlemann in her second album of Mozart's arias, with the Kammerorchester Basel under Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli.
Album Reviews
Review: Mozart – Piano Concertos No. 19 and 27 – Piemontesi, Manze
Francesco Piemontesi, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Andrew Manze in the second volume of their Mozart Piano Concertos series for Linn records.
Album Reviews
Review: Grigory Sokolov Plays Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart
Deutsche Grammophon presents a set of two CDs and one DVD of Grigory Sokolov in live performances of Sonatas and shorter pieces by Beethoven, Brahms and Mozart.
Album Reviews
Review: “Mozart y Mambo” – Sarah Willis – Horn
French Horn player Sarah Willis combines Mozart with Cuban music, in a new album for Alpha Classics.
Album Reviews
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.
Beginners Guides
Mozart – Requiem – A Beginners Guide
Mozart's Requiem was the last work he ever composed. This guide gives background, analysis and recommends the best recordings of various completions.
Album Reviews
Review: Mozart – Symphonies No. 39-41 – Ensemble Resonanz, Minasi
Ensemble Resonanz and conductor Riccardo Minasi perform Mozart's Symphonies No. 39-41 ("Jupiter).
Album Reviews
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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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.