Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective play works by Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, Florence Beatrice Price and Samuel Barber.
Tag: Twentieth Century
Review: Vaughan Williams – Symphonies No. 4 & 6 – LSO, Pappano
Antonio Pappano conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Vaughan Williams’ Symphonies No. 4 and 6.
Review: “Clair-Obscur” – Sandrine Piau Sings Strauss, Berg and Zemlinsky
Soprano Sandrine Piau sings Strauss’ “Four Last Songs” and lieder by Berg and Zemlinsky.
Review: Prokofiev – Piano Works – Nicholas Angelich
Nicholas Angelich plays Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No. 8, Visions fugitives and excerpts from Romeo & Juliet.
Review: “Piazzolla Reflections” – Ksenija Sidorova, Accordion
Accordion player Ksenija Sidorova in a program ranging from Bach to Piazzolla.
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.
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”.
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.
Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, February 2021
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Review: “Verklärte Nacht” – Rice, Skelton, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Gardner
Edward Gardner in two interpretations of Richard Dehmel’s “Verklärte Nacht”, one by Schoenberg and the other by Oskar Fried, with tone poems by Korngold and Lehár.