In this double review, we compare two multi-track piano recitals – Khatia Buniatishvili’s “Labyrinth”, and Bertrand Chamayou’s “Good Night!”.
Tag: Piano
Classical music reviews, beginners guides and editor’s choice of album with piano.
Review: “The Messenger” – Hélène Grimaud Plays Mozart and Silvestrov
Hélène Grimaud plays Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor with the Camerata Salzburg and two Fantasies, with works by Valentin Silvestrov.
Review: Niklas Sivelöv – Piano Concertos – Composer, Malmö Symphony Orchestra
Niklas Sivelöv performs three of his own Piano Concertos, with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra.
Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, October 2020
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Review: Alexandre Kantorow Plays Brahms, Bartók, Liszt
Pianist Alexandre Kantorow in a solo piano program, playing the early Piano Sonata No. 2 by Brahms, and Rhapsodies by Brahms, Liszt and Bartók.
Review: “Encounter” – Igor Levit, Piano
Igor Levit plays piano transcriptions of music by Bach, Brahms and Reger, with Morton Feldman’s “Palais de Mari”.
Review: Mozart – Piano Concertos No. 19 and 27 – Piemontesi, Manze
Francesco Piemontesi, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Andrew Manze in the second volume of their Mozart Piano Concertos series for Linn records.
Review: Beethoven – Complete Piano Concertos – Bavouzet, Swedish Chamber Orchestra
After recording the complete Piano Sonatas, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet performs from the keyboard Beethoven’s complete Piano Concertos, along with the “Grand Quintet”.
Review: Bach – Goldberg Variations – Lang Lang, Piano
Pianist Lang Lang performs Bach’s Goldberg Variations in a new album for Deutsche Grammophon.
Review: Rachmaninoff – Préludes, Études-Tableaux, Moments Musicaux – Sergei Babayan
In his first solo release for Deutsche Grammophon, Sergei Babayan performs a selection of Préludes, Études-Tableaux and Moments Musicaux by Rachmaninoff.
