Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
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STANFORD Organ Works Vol 2
Three tips of the hat for this one: first to Cathedral Music for sponsoring the CD and making available again...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2015
SCHUMANN Carnaval. Davidsbündlertänze. Papillons
This is Boris Giltburg’s first disc since he signed to Naxos. His previous recordings on Orchid, of barnstorming repertoire from...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2015
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition SCHUMANN Fantasie
A number of highly cultivated pianists have been drawn to Mussorgsky’s Pictures over the past few years, among them Leif...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2015
LISZT Piano Sonata
Writing in her personal and engaging notes, Angela Hewitt tells us that Liszt’s B minor Sonata is ‘quite simply one...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2015
LISZT 'Venezia e Napoli’
Costantino Catena has performed the complete piano music of Liszt – a gargantuan task – and his present two-CD album...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2015
LELY The Harmonics of Real Strings
The austerity of presentation as favoured by the Another Timbre label is doubtless intended to place emphasis wholly on the...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 03/2015
HAHN Le Rossignol éperdu
‘Le rossignol éperdu’ is to Hahn what Lieder ohne Worte is to Mendelssohn and Lyric Pieces to Grieg. It is...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2015
FOCCROULLE Works for Historic Organs
From a renowned champion and award-winning interpreter of the north German Baroque repertory, it comes as something of a shock...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2015
FAULKES Organ Music
William Faulkes (1863-1933), a near contemporary of Elgar and a fine concert organist in his own right, spent most of...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 03/2015
CHOPIN Preludes Op 28
Ex-Curtis and Juilliard, Andrew Tyson won fifth prize at the 2012 Leeds Competition. And now he enters a crowded arena...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2015
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
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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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