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Review: Beethoven – The Last Three Piano Sonatas – Sunwook Kim
Sunwook Kim returns to Beethoven, with the last three Piano Sonatas, Op. 109-111.
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Review: Benjamin Grosvenor Plays Liszt
Benjamin Grosvenor in a Liszt recital, playing the B Minor Piano Sonata as well as Tre Sonetti di Petrarca and Réminiscences de Norma.
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Review: Prokofiev – Piano Works – Nicholas Angelich
Nicholas Angelich plays Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 8, Visions fugitives and excerpts from Romeo & Juliet.
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Review: Bach-Busoni – Goldberg Variations, Chaconne – Chiyan Wong
Chiyan Wong performs Bach's Goldberg Variations in the Busoni edition (1914), with the Busoni's arrangement of Bach's Chaconne from the second violin Partita.
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Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, March 2021
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
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Review: Janáček – Piano Works – Lars Vogt
Lars Vogt in a piano recital of music by Leoš Janáček: Piano Sonata, "In the Mists" and "On an Overgrown Path".
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Review: Bach – Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II (Excerpts) – Piotr Anderszewski
Piotr Anderszewski plays 12 Preludes and Fugues from the second book of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier.
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Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, February 2021
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
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Review: Behzod Abduraimov Plays Debussy, Chopin Mussorgsky
Behzod Abduraimov in a solo piano recital, with Debussy's "Children's Corner", Chopin 24 Preludes and Mussorgsky's "Pictures in an Exhibition".
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Review: “labyrinth” – David Greilsammer, Piano
David Greilsammer in a unique piano recital with works ranging from early Baroque to contemporary.