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Review: “Encounter” – Igor Levit, Piano
Igor Levit plays piano transcriptions of music by Bach, Brahms and Reger, with Morton Feldman's “Palais de Mari”.
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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.
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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".
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Review: Bach – Goldberg Variations – Lang Lang, Piano
Pianist Lang Lang performs Bach's Goldberg Variations in a new album for Deutsche Grammophon.
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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.
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Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, August 2020
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
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Review: Grigory Sokolov Plays Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart
Deutsche Grammophon presents a set of two CDs and one DVD of Grigory Sokolov in live performances of Sonatas and shorter pieces by Beethoven, Brahms and Mozart.
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Review: Beethoven – Complete Bagatelles – Paul Lewis, Piano
After recording the complete Piano Sonatas and Concertos, Paul Lewis turns to the shorter form of the Bagatelle, in a new recording for Harmonia Mundi.
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Review: “Vienna 1900” – Le Sage, Plesser, Kashimoto, Meyer, Pahud
A programme devoted to Viennese composers of the early twentieth century, including Berg, Zemlinsky, Korngold and Schönberg.
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Review: Vadym Kholodenko Plays Prokofiev’s Solo Piano Music
Vadym Kholodenko, winner of the Van Cliburn Competition, performs solo works by Prokofiev - Piano Sonata No. 6 and "Visions Fugitives".