Víkingur Ólafsson explores piano music by Mozart and his contemporaries like Haydn, CPE Bach, Galuppi and Cimarosa.
Tag: Piano
Classical music reviews, beginners guides and editor’s choice of album with piano.
Review: Chopin – Complete Nocturnes – Jan Lisiecki
Jan Lisiecki returns to Chopin with a performance of the complete Nocturnes.
Review: Busoni – Piano Works – Peter Donohoe
Peter Donohoe performs original works and transcriptions by Ferruccio Busoni.
Review: “Summertime” – Isata Kanneh-Mason, Piano
Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason in works by Gershwin, Barber, Beach, Copland and Coleridge-Taylor
Review: Joan Tower – “Strike Zones”, “Ivory and Ebony” – Evelyn Glennie, Blair McMillen
Dame Evelyn Glennie and Blair McMillen on Joan Tower’s contemporary Concertos for percussion and piano, with the Albany Symphony under David Alan Miller.
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: Beethoven – Complete Piano Concertos – Zimerman, LSO, Rattle
Three decades after his famous cycle with Bernstein, Krystian Zimerman returns to Beethoven’s five Piano Concertos with Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra.
Review: Chopin – Complete Nocturnes – Alain Planès
Alain Planès performs Chopin complete Nocturnes on 1836 Pleyel piano.
Review: Beethoven – “Hammerklavier” Sonata, Eroica Variations – Aimard
Pierre-Laurent Aimard combines Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 29, Op. 106 (“Hammerklavier”) with the Eroica Variations, Op. 35.
Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, July 2021
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
