Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
Peter Quantrill explores a range of documentaries and concerts from Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel...
In the Norris household, and doubtless in many others, Mozart’s horn concertos = Dennis Brain with the Philharmonia Orchestra and...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2015
When Anders Koppel (b1947) was part of the rock band Savage Rose I doubt he – or anyone else –...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2015
To those of us who know the Belgian composer Joseph Jongen (1873-1953) chiefly though his organ music (the Sonata eroica...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2015
By no means mainstream repertoire, Gounod’s two completed symphonies nevertheless fully merit the finesse and joie de vivre that these...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2015
If Philip Glass’s Symphony No 2 is his ‘Beethoven’ symphony (its ending almost quotes the famous theme from Beethoven’s Fifth),...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 01/2015
Louis Glass (1864-1936) was a close contemporary of his fellow countryman Carl Nielsen and, like the slightly better-known Rued Langgaard,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2015
Born in Liverpool in 1933, David Ellis was a prize-winning composition student of Thomas Pitfield at Manchester’s Royal College of...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2015
The comparative rarity here is the Violin Concerto, which shows Vaughan Williams toying with fashionable 1920s neo-classicism. His reference point...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 01/2015
Daniel Müller-Schott’s discography already includes many peaks of the cello repertoire, so the addition of the Dvořák Concerto fills a...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 01/2015
It’s been a good few years since I last encountered a brand-new recording of Paul Dukas’s big-hearted and meatily argued...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 01/2015
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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