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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CHOPIN Nocturnes
Lars Vogt is a pianist I admire greatly, though Chopin is not a composer with whom I’d readily associate him....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2015
CAGE One7. Four6
Music notation is a map providing points of orientation that allow players to walk the interpretative walk, their idea of...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2015
JS BACH Cello Suites (Complete)
Youth has long been thought of as a considerable impediment to the artistically successful – live or recorded – performance...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2015
Where are you? Pieces from Warsaw
The proMODERN Sextet, new to me, is a highly accomplished group of young singers specialising in contemporary Polish music, and...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2015
Sacred Songs of Life and Love
That Stephen Layton’s recording of contemporary Baltic choral music, ‘Baltic Exchange’, with Polyphony (4/10) displays no overlap of repertoire with...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 04/2015
O Sacrum Convivium
The Messes solennelles by Langlais and Vierne are regular bedfellows on disc. Here Andrew Nethsinga and the Choir of St...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2015
Rupert Charlesworth: Nocturnes
Performances at the Aix-en-Provence festival can sometimes stretch to the other side of midnight. This programme began as a recital...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 04/2015
Ascendit deus
Three previous discs from the Choir of Clare College and Graham Ross have covered Advent, Christmas and Passiontide respectively. This...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2015
Concert Clemens - Carsten Seyer-Hansen
This CD presents an assortment of favourite pieces from the repertoire of the Danish choir Concert Clemens. The music comes...
Reviewed by Christopher Nickol in issue: 04/2015
WOLF Complete Songs Vol 8
The latest volume in Stone Records’ complete survey of Wolf’s songs follows the same pattern as previous releases: young singers...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 04/2015
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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