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Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, October 2021
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Piano
Album Reviews
Double Review: Bach – Goldberg Variations – Papastefanou, Minnaar
A double review of two new performances of Bach's Goldberg Variations, by Alexandra Papastefanou and Hannes Minnaar.
Album Reviews
Review: “On DSCH” – Igor Levit, Piano
Pianist Igor Levit performs Shostakovich's 24 Preludes and Fugues, with Ronald Stevenson’s Passacaglia On DSCH.
Album Reviews
Review: “…Le Temps perdu…” – Imogen Cooper, Piano
Imogen Cooper in piano works she studied in her youth, by Ravel, Liszt, Fauré and Resphigi (Chandos, 2021).
Album Reviews
Review: Brahms – Piano Concerto No. 1 – Melnikov, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Bolton
Alexander Melnikov plays a Blüthner piano from 1859 in Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1, with Sinfonieorchester Basel under Ivor Bolton.
Album Reviews
Review: Chopin – Piano Concerto No. 2, Scherzi – Seong-Jin Cho
Seong-Jin Cho completes his Chopin's Piano Concertos cycle with the LSO and Gianandrea Noseda, together with the four Scherzi.
Best of
Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, September 2021
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Album Reviews
Review: Mozart & Contemporaries – Víkingur Ólafsson, Piano
Víkingur Ólafsson explores piano music by Mozart and his contemporaries like Haydn, CPE Bach, Galuppi and Cimarosa.
Album Reviews
Review: Chopin – Complete Nocturnes – Jan Lisiecki
Jan Lisiecki returns to Chopin with a performance of the complete Nocturnes.
Album Reviews
Review: Busoni – Piano Works – Peter Donohoe
Peter Donohoe performs original works and transcriptions by Ferruccio Busoni.