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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.
Piano
Album Reviews
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.
Album Reviews
Review: Chopin – Complete Nocturnes – Alain Planès
Alain Planès performs Chopin complete Nocturnes on 1836 Pleyel piano.
Album Reviews
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.
Best of
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.
Album Reviews
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.
Album Reviews
Review: When Do We Dance? – Lise de la Salle, Piano
Lise de la Salle in a piano program of dances from around the globe.
Album Reviews
Review: Grażyna Bacewicz – Piano Music – Joanna Sochacka
Pianist Joanna Sochacka in a full program of piano music by Grażyna Bacewicz.
Album Reviews
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…
Beginners Guides
Debussy – Préludes – A Beginners Guide
A guide to Debussy’s two books of Préludes, with background, analysis and recommendations for the best recordings.