Alexander Melnikov plays a Blüthner piano from 1859 in Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1, with Sinfonieorchester Basel under Ivor Bolton.
Tag: Period Instruments
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.
Review: Chopin – Complete Nocturnes – Alain Planès
Alain Planès performs Chopin complete Nocturnes on 1836 Pleyel piano.
Review: Mozart – Violin Sonatas, Vol. 3 – Isabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov
Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov in their third volume of Mozart’s Violin Sonatas cycle, played on period instruments.
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.
Review: Beethoven – Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”) – Les Siècles, Roth
François-Xavier Roth conducts Les Siècles in Beethoven’s Third Symphony and an overture by Étienne-Nicolas Méhul.
Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, May 2021
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Review: “Il delirio della passione” – Monteverdi Arias – Anna Lucia Richter, Soprano
Soprano Anna Lucia Richter in arias by Monteverdi, with Ensemble Claudiana and Luca Pianca.
