With this first installment, pianist Peter Donohoe embarks on a new project of recording Mendelssohn’s eight volumes of Songs Without Words.
Tag: Piano
Classical music reviews, beginners guides and editor’s choice of album with piano.
Review: Brahms – Late Piano Works – Paul Lewis
In a new recording for Harmonia Mundi, Paul Lewis performs Brahms’ Op. 116-119, the captivating final sets of works the composer wrote for piano.
Review: George Walker – Five Piano Sonatas – Steven Beck, Piano
In a new release for Bridge Records, pianist Steven Beck performs the five piano sonatas of Pulitzer Prize-winning contemporary composer, George Walker.
Review: Bruce Liu Plays Chopin
Bruce Liu, newly-crowned winner of the 18th Fryderyk Chopin Competition, features in Deutsche Grammophon’s compilation of his competition highlights.
Year In Review – Our Top Classical Albums for 2021
We go over a lot of classical music albums during the year, so when 2021 comes to an end it’s time for members of The Classic Review staff to pick their favorite albums of the year.
Review: “Tribute to Gulda” – Adam Kośmieja, Piano
Pianist Adam Kośmieja in original works by Friedrich Gulda, along with Beethoven’s last Piano Sonata, Op. 111.
Review: Bach – Goldberg Variations – David Fray, Piano
Pianist David Fray presents a new recording for Erato of Bach’s tour-de-force Goldberg Variations.
Review: Muse – Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason
Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason perform Cello Sonatas by Rachmaninoff and Barber, along with song transcriptions.
Review: Schubert – Impromptus, Moments Musicaux – Alexandre Tharaud, Piano
Pianist Alexandre Tharaud performs Schubert’s D. 899 Impromptus and revisits the D. 780 Moments Musicaux.
Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, November 2021
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
