Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
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BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis
Where Beethoven’s Missa solemnis is concerned, only the big beasts of the musical jungle need apply. Georg Solti was one...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2014
Végh in Hungary
In my experience there are only two conductors who could have delivered these pungent, characterful and lovingly played performances, Pablo...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2014
Horizon 5
In this latest collection of RCO commissions or co-commissions, the two longest works – by Kaija Saariaho and Detlev Glanert...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2014
SHCHEDRIN Concerto Parlando TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto
It’s always rewarding to encounter a musician of the calibre and risk-taking flair of Philippe Graffin. Rest assured, there are...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2014
Ballet Music
This partnership’s debut recording of French repertoire for Pentatone (7/14) left a most favourable impression, which is now enhanced further...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2014
Balkan Fever
This is fun, primarily because of a touch of ‘premature congratulation’ towards the end of Enescu’s First Romanian Rhapsody. The...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2014
The Bach Sons
On the face of it, this conspectus of keyboard works by JS Bach’s most talented sons should help the uninitiated...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2014
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Sheherazade BALAKIREV Islamey
The Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra (Borusan is the group of companies that sponsored it) has in its 15 years of...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 09/2014
STRAVINNSKY The Rite of Spring. Petrushka
François-Xavier Roth and his highly responsive cohorts give us a strikingly fresh-faced, wonderfully vibrant Petrushka in its original 1911 guise,...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2014
STRAUSS Alpine Symphony
Strauss’s Alpine Symphony is an object lesson in imaginative orchestration, a collaborative musical workout that challenges players, conductor and listeners...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2014
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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