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Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, July 2024
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review this past month.
Sibelius
Album Reviews
Review: Sibelius – Early Orchestral Works – Susanna Mälkki
Susanna Mälkki leads the Helsinki Philharmonic in three early Sibelius works: the Karelia Suite, Rakastava, and Lemminkäinen.
Best of
Year in Review – The Top 10 Most Popular Classical Music Reviews of 2022
For our last post in 2019, we went back and checked our statistics, finding out which reviews were most popular this year.
Album Reviews
Review: Sibelius – Complete Symphonies – Klaus Mäkelä, Oslo Philharmonic
In an ambitious recording debut for Decca, Klaus Mäkelä leads the Oslo Philharmonic in a performance of the complete Sibelius symphony cycle.
Album Reviews
Review: Sibelius and Nielsen – Violin Concertos – Johan Dalene
Following up on his 2020 debut, Johan Dalene collaborates with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic in a new 2022 recording of concertos by Sibelius and Nielsen.
Interviews
My Collection: Kilian Herold, Clarinet
Clarinet player Kilian Herold writes for The Classic Review about three classical music albums he couldn't live without.
Album Reviews
Review: Beethoven And Sibelius Violin Concertos – Christian Tetzlaff
In his second recording of both concertos, Christian Tetzlaff is joined by Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Robin Ticciati