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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.
Period Instruments
Album Reviews
Review: Passion – Véronique Gens, Soprano
Soprano Véronique Gens in a sequence of works by Lully, Collasse and Desmarets, forming "an imaginative opera".
Album Reviews
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.
Album Reviews
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.
Album Reviews
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")
Best of
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.
Album Reviews
Review: Chopin – Complete Nocturnes – Alain Planès
Alain Planès performs Chopin complete Nocturnes on 1836 Pleyel piano.
Album Reviews
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.
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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.
Album Reviews
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.