Pianist Igor Levit performs Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues, with Ronald Stevenson’s Passacaglia On DSCH.
Tag: Twentieth Century
Review: “…Le Temps perdu…” – Imogen Cooper, Piano
Imogen Cooper in piano works she studied in her youth, by Ravel, Liszt, Fauré and Resphigi (Chandos, 2021).
Review: “Phidylé” – Kateřina Kněžíková, Soprano
Soprano Kateřina Kněžíková collaborates with Robert Jindra and the Janáček Philharmonic in a series of songs from the turn of the 20th century.
Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, September 2021
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Review: Mahler – Symphony No. 7 – Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Kirill Petrenko
Kirill Petrenko conducts the Bayerisches Staatsorchester in Mahler’s Symphony No. 7
Review: “Journey Through a Century” – Sueye Park, Violin
Sueye Park in solo violin music from the twentieth century.
Review: Busoni – Piano Works – Peter Donohoe
Peter Donohoe performs original works and transcriptions by Ferruccio Busoni.
Review: “Summertime” – Isata Kanneh-Mason, Piano
Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason in works by Gershwin, Barber, Beach, Copland and Coleridge-Taylor
Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, August 2021
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Review: “Diffusion” – The Verona Quartet Play Janáček, Szymanowski and Ravel
On their debut album, the Verona Quartet play Janáček’s ‘Intimate letters’ quartet, with Szymanowski’s String Quartet No. 2 and Ravel’s String Quartet in F Major.
