Your guide to classical music online
Your guide to classical music online
Back in the 1990s it was fashionable for classical musicians to call their concerts or CD releases “The X Project” or “The Y Project”. I
Deutsche Grammophon has bundled eight “original jacket” albums from the
What an interesting idea, to compile Chopin recordings by all
Deutsche Grammophon must love the Chopin Preludes. Between 2007 and 2015 alone the label released versions by Rafal Blechacz, Gregory Sokolov, and Daniil Trifonov, plus
After floundering at EMI, Yundi returned to DG’s fold in 2013 with a strong solo Beethoven release containing the three “name” sonatas. It therefore comes
Of the three random boxes of Ozawa stuff that Universal
On disc, Yundi’s Chopin has ranged from exciting and scintillating (his Scherzos for DG) to mall-music bland (his EMI Nocturnes cycle). The pianist’s 2010 Beijing
The pianist formerly known as Yundi Li now reappears as Yundi, and with a new label behind him. On the basis of his strong, incisive
Yundi Li turns in a scorching performance of Prokofiev’s most exciting piano concerto. In the first movement not even monster banger Alexander Toradze throws off
Considering the all-around excellence of his four DG solo releases, Yundi Li’s concerto debut for the label disappoints. For starters, the engineering conveys a bloated,
