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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: 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.
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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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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: Weinberg – Violin Concerto, Sonata for Two Violins – Gidon Kremer
Gidon Kremer returns to Mieczysław Weinberg, with a performance of the Violin Concerto with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Daniele Gatti.
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Review: Saint-Saëns – Chamber Works – Chamayou, Capuçon, Moreau
Bertrand Chamayou is joined by violinist Renaud Capuçon and cellist Edgar Moreau in Saint-Saëns' Violin Sonata No. 1, Cello Sonata No. 1 and Piano Trio No. 2.
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Review: Beethoven – Late Piano Sonatas – Nikolai Lugansky
Nikolai Lugansky plays Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Op. 101, 109 and 111.
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Review: “Silver Age” – Daniil Trifonov Plays Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Scriabin
Daniil Trifonov plays concertos and solo works by Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Scriabin.
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Review: Brahms – Clarinet Sonatas – Jörg Widmann, András Schiff
Jörg Widmann and András Schiff perform Brahms' two Clarinet Sonatas (op. 120), with Widmann's own Intermezzi for piano (ECM, 2020).