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Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, July 2020
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Twentieth Century
Album Reviews
Review: Songs By Sir Hamilton Harty – Kathryn Rudge, Christopher Glynn
This new album contains 17 new premier recording of songs by the Irish composer (Somm Recordings, 2020).
Album Reviews
Review: Bruckner, Stravinsky – Mass for Choir and Wind – Rundfunkchor Berlin
Gijs Leenaars performs Bruckner and Stravinsky's two Masses for choir and wind instruments, with the Rundfunkchor and Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.
Album Reviews
Review: “Cantilena” – Tabea Zimmermann, Viola and Javier Perianes, Piano
In this collection of arrangements for viola and piano, Tabea Zimmermann and Javier Perianes take us on a journey through Spain and South America (2020)
Album Reviews
Review: Strauss – Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel – Urbański
Krzysztof Urbanski and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra perform orchestral tone poems by Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Juan, and Till Eulenspiegel.
Album Reviews
Review: Poulenc – Piano Concertos, Chamber Works – Mark Bebbington
Pianist Mark Bebbington performs Poulenc's Piano Concerto, "Concert Champêtre" and chamber works with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Jan Latham-Koenig.
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Review: Elgar – Violin Concerto – Nicola Benedetti
Nicola Benedetti perform Elgar's Violin Concerto with the London Philharmonic under Vladimir Jurowski.
Album Reviews
Review: Korngold – Violin Concerto, Sextet – Haveron, Wilson
Violinist Andrew Haveron performs Korngold's Violin Concerto with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra under John Wilson, with the Sextet Op. 10.
Album Reviews
Review: Shostakovich – Symphony No. 11 – BBC Philharmonic – Storgårds
John Storgårds conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Shostakovich's Eleventh Symphony, "The Year 1905".
Album Reviews
Review: Brahms, Schoenberg – Violin Concertos – Jack Liebeck
Violinist Jack Liebeck perform Schoenberg's and Brahms' Violin Concertos, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Andrew Gourlay.