Sibelius cover

Sibelius

Composer
Released

Andsnes has the perfect touch for these solo piano works by Sibelius. His gestures are high Romantic but his moods and pacing have a nice Modernist freeze to them, and a good Sibelian knows where the music needs to spin past like branches beneath a carriage and when the chords need to fall like slate paving stones. Andsnes lights up this block of pieces and makes you forget almost instantly that you’re listening to only one instrument.

Sasha Frere-Jones

Recommended by

Suggestions
Mozart - Mendelssohn cover

Mozart - Mendelssohn

Chiaroscuro Quartet
Mephistopheles & Other Bad Guys cover

Mephistopheles & Other Bad Guys

Kevin Short, Marseille Philharmonic Orchestra, Lawrence Foster, Orchestre Philharmonique De Marseille
Janácek: Taras Bulba; Lachian Dances; Moravian Dances cover

Janácek: Taras Bulba; Lachian Dances; Moravian Dances

Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit
Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No.1 - Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No.2 cover

Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto No.1 - Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No.2

Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Haochen Zhang, Dima Slobodeniouk
Silfra cover

Silfra

Hilary Hahn, Hauschka
Dvořák: Requiem, Biblical Songs, Te Deum cover

Dvořák: Requiem, Biblical Songs, Te Deum

Svatopluk Sem, Jan Martiník, Antonín Dvořák, Christianne Stotijn, Michael Spyres, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Ailyn Pérez, Jiří Bělohlávek, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Jakub Hrůša