Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
Peter Quantrill explores a range of documentaries and concerts from Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel...
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ROSSINI William Tell
Verdi-Wagner year fell in 2013. That was also the year in which two dauntless Rossini festivals decided to stage, complete...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2015
REIMANN Lear; SALLINEN King Lear
Aulis Sallinen’s Kuningas Lear – from a translation of the play by Matti Rossi – was filmed in 2002 at...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2015
RAMEAU Castor & Pollux
Castor et Pollux, Rameau’s third opera, was first performed at the Paris Opéra in 1737. Preceded by an old-fashioned Prologue...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2015
MOZART Opera Arias and Overtures
In Covent Garden’s recent Don Giovanni Elizabeth Watts threatened to steal the show with her alluringly sensuous Zerlina. Even without...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 07/2015
MOZART The Magic Flute
As with Klemperer’s Fidelio, this live performance from Covent Garden – which now appears on disc for the first time...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2015
METCALF Under Milk Wood
Dylan Thomas’s Under Milk Wood must be the most celebrated radio play of all time. The original 1954 BBC broadcast...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 07/2015
GASPARINI Il Bajazet
Handel completed Tamerlano in advance of the 1724-25 season, but the tenor Francesco Borosini’s arrival in London prompted Handel to...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2015
The Steinmeyer Organ in Nidaros Cathedral
With a specification that runs to 146 stops and an amazing 36 couplers, the 1930 Steinmeyer organ in Trondheim is...
Reviewed in issue 07/2015
Christopher Herrick: Power of Life
It may not go under the title of ‘Organ Fireworks’ but this latest offering from Christopher Herrick has all the...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2015
Xavier de Maistre: Moldau
Xavier de Maistre last graced these pages in October 2013 with a stunning disc of Mozart. His performance of the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2015
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Review - Christoph von Dohnányi in Cleveland
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Review - Eloquence’s Piano Library
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
Which are the right active loudspeakers for you?
Speakers with onboard amplification make plenty of sense if you want high performance without all...
Review - Sergei Rachmaninoff: In His Own Words (Edited by Geoffrey Norris)
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
Review - Audiolab 9000N: ‘A major achievement on many levels’
This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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