Giovanni Antonini and Il Giardino Armonico perform Haydn’s “Die Schöpfung” (The Creation), with soloists Anna Lucia Richter, Maximilian Schmitt and Florian Boesch.
Tag: Period Instruments
Review: Mozart – Violin Concertos – Christoph Koncz, Les Musiciens du Louvre
Christoph Koncz plays Mozart’s five Violin Concertos on Mozart’s own violin, with Les Musiciens du Louvre.
Review: Bach – Motets – Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
Ensemble Pygmalion, under the direction of Raphaël Pichon, perform Bach’s six Motets, together with motets by other composers on a new recording for Harmonia Mundi.
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”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
