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Year In Review – The Best Classical Music Albums, 2025
Discover the best classical music albums of the year (2025), handpicked by The Classic Review staff.
Piano
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Review: Avril Coleridge-Taylor – Piano Concerto & Orchestral Works – Ege, BBC Philharmonic, Andrews
Samantha Ege, the BBC Philharmonic and John Andrews perform Avril Coleridge-Taylor's Piano Concerto and orchestral works.
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Review: “Baroque Encores” – David Fray, Piano
David Fray in works by Bach, Handel, Rameau, Scarlatti and Couperin.
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Review: “Opus 109” – Víkingur Ólafsson, Piano
Víkingur Ólafsson plays Bach's sixth keyboard partita, Beethoven's piano sonatas Op. 90 & 109, and Schubert's Piano Sonata D. 566.
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Review: Radu Lupu – The Unreleased Recordings
6-CD box set of previously unreleased recordings by pianist Radu Lupu.
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In Short – 5 Recent Bach Albums – November 2025
Five recent Bach albums by Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Martin Fröst, Isabelle Faust, Inbal Megiddo, and Antoine Morinière & Thibaut Garcia.
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Notable Classical Music Box Sets, November 2025
Notable classical music box sets worth exploring.
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In Short – 5 Albums Worth Your Listen – December 2025
Brief reviews of five recent classical albums: Bach Cantatas with Ensemble Correspondances and Sébastien Daucé, the Nash Ensemble play Ravel, Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 with the National Symphony…
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Review: Schubert – Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1 – Martin Helmchen
Martin Helmchen in the first volume of Schubert complete Piano Sonatas cycle.
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Review: Daniil Trifonov Plays Tchaikovsky
Daniil Trifonov plays Tchaikovsky's piano sonata Op. 80, "Children's Album", and Pletnev's piano arrangement of "The Sleeping Beauty".