Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
Peter Quantrill explores a range of documentaries and concerts from Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel...
Here once more, on his third Chopin recording for Delphian, David Wilde presents a determined assault on traditional wisdom, on...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2015
The second volume in Mark Bebbington’s welcome and conspicuously classy survey of Bliss’s complete piano output contains one premiere recording...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2015
Given the slight, four-movement sonata that rounds off this fascinating disc, the music of William Hamilton Bird wouldn’t ordinarily merit...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 08/2015
First the positives. In Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations, Nick Van Bloss’s supple precision brings out the shifting accents of Var 2’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2015
For his second recording of Debussy’s 12 Etudes (the first was for Arabesque, 2/90), Garrick Ohlsson chooses the iconoclastic blaze...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2015
Presenting Bach’s organ music in fresh pastures is no easy feat but the programming alchemy here is highly compelling. The...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 08/2015
Busoni’s arrangement of Bach’s Goldberg Variations is faithful to the original and presents few radical changes. And so I can...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2015
Rudolf Buchbinder offers Bach-playing of confidence and intelligence, unafraid to ornament and keen to point up the drama of the...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2015
The Chatham Saxophone Quartet has certainly advanced the cause of Irish new music for its medium with this recital which,...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2015
Even more than some years’ instalments, Lugano 2014 is a celebration not just of the inimitable Argentinian but also of...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2015
Peter Quantrill explores a range of documentaries and concerts from Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel...
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
Speakers with onboard amplification make plenty of sense if you want high performance without all...
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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