Album Reviews
Review: Beethoven – Symphony No. 5 – Les Siècles, Roth
François-Xavier Roth conducts Les Siècles in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and Gossec's "Symphonie à Dix-Sept Parties".
Period Instruments
Album Reviews
Review: “What’s Next vivaldi?” – Kopatchinskaja, Antonini
Patricia Kopatchinskaja presents a program which combines Violin Concertos by Vivaldi with contemporary works, together with Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini.
Album Reviews
Review: Bach – Johannes Passion – Bach Collegium Japan – Suzuki (2020)
20 years after their first recording, The Bach Collegium Japan and Masaaki Suzuki return to the St. John Passion, in a new recording made in Köln.
Best of
Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, September 2020
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Album Reviews
Review: Beethoven – Symphonies No. 1-5 – Le Concert des Nations, Savall
Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations present the first volume of their Beethoven complete Symphonies cycle, with Symphonies 1-5.
Album Reviews
Review: Picchi – Canzoni da Sonar – Concerto Scirocco, Genini
Concerto Scirocco under Giulia Genini perform Picchi's complete "Canzoni Da Sonar Con Ogni Sorte D’istromenti", In the first recording of the full set.
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.
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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: Cantatas of the Bach Family – Benjamin Appl, Reinhard Goebel
Baritone Benjamin Appl performs Bach's "Ich habe genug" and other Cantatas by members of the Bach family. Goebel conducts two world premieres orchestral pieces.