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Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, August 2020
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Orchestral
Album Reviews
Review: Shostakovich – Symphony No. 13 (“Babi Yar”) – Russian National Orchestra – Karabits
Kirill Karabits and the Russian National Orchestra perform Shostakovich's 13th Symphony ("Babi Yar"), with bass Oleg Tsibulko.
Album Reviews
Review: Finzi – Clarinet Concerto – Vaughan Williams – Symphony No. 5 – Collins
Michael Collins conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in Vaughan Williams' Fifth Symphony, and is the soloist in Finzi's Clarinet Concerto.
Album Reviews
Review: Zemlinsky – Die Seejungfrau – Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Albrecht
Marc Albrecht conducts the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra in Zemlinsky's "Die Seejungfrau" - Fantasy in for large orchestra after a fairy-tale by Andersen.
Album Reviews
Review: Beethoven – Symphony No. 9, Choral Fantasy – Bezuidenhout, Heras-Casado
Pablo Heras-Casado conducts the Freiburger Barockorchester in Beethoven "choral" Symphony. Kristian Bezuidenhout joins for the Choral Fantasy.
Beginners Guides
Bach – A beginners Guide
Where to start when you want to get to know the music of Bach, one of the leading figures in the late Baroque era? Here are 10 pieces…
Album Reviews
Review: Mahler – Symphony No. 7 – Minnesota Orchestra, Vänskä
Osmo Vänskä And the Minnesota Orchestra continue their ongoing Mahler cycle, this time with Symphony No. 7 ("Song of the Night").
Album Reviews
Review: Rimsky-Korsakov – Orchestral Works – Oslo Philharmonic, Vasily Petrenko
Vasily Petrenko conducts the Oslo Philharmonic in Rimsky-Korsakov's orchestral works - Scheherazade, Capriccio Espagnol and Russian Easter Festival Overture.
Album Reviews
Review: Strauss – Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel – Urbański
Krzysztof Urbanski and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra perform orchestral tone poems by Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Juan, and Till Eulenspiegel.
Album Reviews
Review: “Sturm und Drang” – The Mozartists, Ian Page
This is the first of a seven part series that examines the "Sturm und Drang" period, including Symphony No. 49 by Haydn.