The Classic Review

Gabriel Fauré composed his Requiem in stages between 1887 and 1890, during his years as choirmaster at the Madeleine in Paris. The first version was heard at the church on 16 January 1888, when the composer was forty-two. Often called ...

Hyperion’s Romantic Piano Concerto series stands as one of the most ambitious and comprehensive recording projects in the history of classical music. Launched in 1991 with the aim of reviving forgotten works, it developed into an encyclopedic exploration of the genre. Now, Hyperion has gathered the first era of this project into a single 50-CD

Arcadi Volodos pairs Schubert‘s Piano Sonata in D major, D. 850 (“Gasteiner”)...

Bartók wrote his Concerto for Orchestra in just under eight weeks during the late summer and early autumn of 1943, working at a Saranac Lake sanatorium in upstate New York while recovering from a serious illness. The score arrived af...

Karajan’s first complete Beethoven cycle, recorded with Walter Legge’s Phi...