Eric Lu plays Chopin’s 24 preludes and Schumann’s “Geistervariationen”, in his first solo album since winning the Leeds Piano Competition.
Tag: Piano
Classical music reviews, beginners guides and editor’s choice of album with piano.
My Collection: Martina Filjak, Pianist
Pianist Martina Filjak tells The Classic Review about three classical music albums she couldn’t live without.
Double Review: Chopin Piano Concertos – Grosvenor, Yundi
Benjamin Grosvenor and Yundi Li have both released albums with Chopin’s Piano Concertos.
Review: Beethoven – The Last Three Sonatas – Pollini (2020)
40 years after his original recordings of Beethoven’s late Piano Sonatas, Maurizio Pollini return to the last three sonatas in a new live recording for DG.
Review: Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 2 and 5 – Bezuidenhout, Heras-Casado
Kristian Bezuidenhout begins a new cycle of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto, with the Freiburger Barockorchestrer under Pablo Heras-Casado.
Review: Beethoven – Complete Piano Sonatas – Fazil Say
Fazil Say presents Beethoven’s 32 Piano Sonatas for Warner Classics (2020).
Review: Saint-Saëns – Piano Concertos 3 and 5 – Lortie, Gardner
The second volume of Louis Lortie and Edward Gardner’s cycle of the complete Piano Concertos by Saint-Saëns, with the BBC Philharmonic.
Review: Ravel – Piano Concerto, Le Tombeau de Couperin – Perianes, Pons
Ravel’s Piano Concerto is programmed with Le Tombeau de Couperin and “Alborada del gracioso” from “Miroirs”, in both piano and orchestra versions.
Haydn – A Beginners Guide
Where to start when you want to get to know the music of Joseph Haydn, one of the leading figures in the Classical era? Here are 10 pieces which represent a good place to start if one wants to get familiar with Haydn’s music.
Year in Review – The Top 10 Most Popular Classical Music Reviews of 2019
For our last post in 2019, we went back and checked our statistics, finding out which reviews were most popular this year.