Dame Evelyn Glennie and Blair McMillen on Joan Tower’s contemporary Concertos for percussion and piano, with the Albany Symphony under David Alan Miller.
Tag: Piano
Classical music reviews, beginners guides and editor’s choice of album with piano.
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.
Review: “Reimagine: Beethoven and Ravel” – Inna Faliks, Piano
Pianist Inna Faliks combines Beethoven’s Op. 126 Bagatelles with nine new contemporary pieces, some influenced by Ravel’s Gaspard de la Nuit.
Review: When Do We Dance? – Lise de la Salle, Piano
Lise de la Salle in a piano program of dances from around the globe.
Review: Grażyna Bacewicz – Piano Music – Joanna Sochacka
Pianist Joanna Sochacka in a full program of piano music by Grażyna Bacewicz.
Review: Debussy – Fantaisie, Violin Sonata, Cello Sonata, La Mer – Argerich, Soltani, Barenboim
Martha Argerich on her first ever recording of Debussy’s Fantasie for Piano and Orchestra, with Staatskapelle Berlin and Daniel Barenboim, who accompanies in the Violin and Cello Sonatas with cellist Kian Soltani and violinist Michael Barenboim.
