The Classic Review

Robert Schumann wrote his Symphony No. 3 in the autumn of 1850, soon after moving to Düsseldorf to take up his only post as a municipal music director. The Rhineland lifted his spirits, and the symphony poured out in little more than a mo...

In the third volume of his ongoing series, Cédric Tiberghien dedicates over two hours exclusively to the piano variation. The album offers a thoughtfully curated program that sets

This release marks the latest Sibelius symphony cycle led by Jukka-Pekka Saraste. His first, from the late 1980s and early 1990s on RCA and Sony Classical, features the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and gathers several other

This double review pairs two recent Haydn recordings that invite direct comparison from pianists Peter Donohoe and Denis Kozhukhin. While both albums are the artists’ second devoted to the composer, the projects differ in context. Donohoe offer...

I first discovered the symphonic works of Mélanie Hélène Bonis on a CD featuring the Bucharest Symphony Orchestra conducted by Benoît Fromanger (Le Chant de Linos, 2013). Although Bonis composed over three hundred pieces throughout her lifetime...