Víkingur Ólafsson explores piano music by Mozart and his contemporaries like Haydn, CPE Bach, Galuppi and Cimarosa.
Tag: Sonata
Review: “Summertime” – Isata Kanneh-Mason, Piano
Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason in works by Gershwin, Barber, Beach, Copland and Coleridge-Taylor
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.
Review: Grażyna Bacewicz – Piano Music – Joanna Sochacka
Pianist Joanna Sochacka in a full program of piano music by Grażyna Bacewicz.
Review: Mozart – Violin Sonatas, Vol. 3 – Isabelle Faust, Alexander Melnikov
Isabelle Faust and Alexander Melnikov in their third volume of Mozart’s Violin Sonatas cycle, played on period instruments.
Review: Beethoven – The Last Three Piano Sonatas – Sunwook Kim
Sunwook Kim returns to Beethoven, with the last three Piano Sonatas, Op. 109-111.
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.
Review: Elgar – Violin Concerto, Violin Sonata – Renaud Capuçon, Simon Rattle, Stephen Hough
Renaud Capuçon is accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra in Elgar’s Violin Concerto, and is joined by Stephen Hough in the Violin Sonata.
Review: Prokofiev – Piano Works – Nicholas Angelich
Nicholas Angelich plays Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No. 8, Visions fugitives and excerpts from Romeo & Juliet.
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.
