Period instrumentalist Andreas Staier revisits Bach, performing the second book of the Well-Tempered Clavier on a harpsichord.
Tag: Period Instruments
Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, December 2021
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Review: Anima Aeterna – Jakub Józef Orlińsky, Countertenor
Jakub Józef Orlińsky’s third solo album with Il Pomo d’Oro continues his Baroque journey and presents a selection of well-known works with world premieres.
Review: Sabine Devieilhe Sings Bach and Handel
Sabine Devieilhe is accompanied by Pygmalion under Raphaël Pichon, in cantatas for solo soprano by Bach and arias by Handel.
Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, October 2021
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Review: Passions – Véronique Gens, Soprano
Soprano Véronique Gens in a sequence of works by Lully, Collasse and Desmarets, forming “an imaginative opera”.
Review: Brahms – Piano Concerto No. 1 – Melnikov, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Bolton
Alexander Melnikov plays a Blüthner piano from 1859 in Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1, with Sinfonieorchester Basel under Ivor Bolton.
Review: Haydn – Complete Symphonies, Vol. 10 – Il Giardino Armonico, Antonini
Giovanni Antonini continues his journey with Haydn’s complete Symphonies, this time with Il Giardino Armonico in the early Symphonies No. 6-8.
Review: Bach – Overtures (“Original Versions”) – Concerto Copenhagen, Mortensen
Lars Ulrik Mortensen and Concerto Copenhagen present what is claimed to be Bach’s “original” versions of the 4 Orchestra Suites (“Overtures”)
Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, August 2021
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
