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Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, October 2020
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Vocal
Album Reviews
Review: Chanson d’Amour – Sabine Devieilhe, Alexandre Tharaud
Soprano Sabine Devieilhe and pianist Alexandre Tharaud in a program of French songs by Debussy, Ravel, Faure and Poulenc.
Album Reviews
Review: Mahler – Das lied von der Erde – Ivan Fischer
Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra perform Mahler's Das Lied von der Eder, with alto Gerhild Romberger and baritone Robert Dean Smith.
Album Reviews
Review: Elgar – Sea Pictures, Falstaff – Garanča, Staatskapelle Berlin, Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim returns to Elgar's Falstaff and Sea Pictures in a new live recording with the Staatskapelle Berlin and soprano Elīna Garanča.
Album Reviews
Review: Mahler – Das Lied von der Erde – Connolly, Dean Smith, Jurowski
Vladimir Jurowski conducts the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde, with soloists Dame Sarah Connolly and Robert Dean Smith.
Best of
Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, September 2020
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
Album Reviews
Review: “Nuits” – Véronique Gens, I Giardini
Soprano Véronique Gens is joined by "I Giardini" in French Melodies, with works by Fauré, Berlioz, Massenet, Saint-Saëns, Chausson and Liszt and others.
Album Reviews
Review: Adès Conducts Adès – Kirill Gerstein, Piano
Thomas Adès performs two of his works with the Boston Symphony Orchestra - the Piano Concerto with soloist Kirill Gerstein and "Totentanz”.
Album Reviews
Review: Pergolesi – Stabat Mater – Sandrine Piau, Christopher Lowrey, Rousset
Christopher Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques return to Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, with Soprano Sandrine Piau and Contralto Christopher Lowrey
Interviews
My Collection: Sarah Traubel, Soprano
Soprano Sarah Traubel writes for The Classic Review about three classical music albums she couldn't live without.