Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
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STRAUSS Salome
It’s taken a little while for this Salome, filmed at Bologna’s Teatro Comunale in early 2010, to make it to...
Reviewed in issue 08/2014
STRAUSS Capriccio
Still a relative rarity in the opera house, Strauss’s last opera benefits perhaps more than any of his other works...
Reviewed in issue 08/2014
ROSSINI Maometto Secondo
Mehmet II was the Ottoman sultan who captured Byzantine Constantinople in 1453. The portrait attributed to Gentile Bellini, on display...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2014
ROSSINI Le Comte Ory
The lovely small Zurich Opernhaus is ideal for Rossini – as it is for Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier and their...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2014
PUCCINI Turandot
Long one of my favourite productions of anything, the Andrei Serban Turandot arrives on video, some 30 years after I...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2014
PUCCINI Madama Butterfly
Musically solid and theatrically intriguing, this Madama Butterfly from Hamburg brings one to ponder whether this opera is truly about...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 08/2014
PUCCINI La fanciulla del West
Like many a live performance of La fanciulla del West, this one takes a while before everybody is warmed up...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 08/2014
Emma Matthews sings Mozart Arias
Emma Matthews is a soprano who has appeared in an impressive range of operas in her native Australia. Her repertoire...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2014
HANDEL Teseo (Highlights)
In 2011 the Göttingen Handel Festival bid an emotional farewell to its long-serving Artistic Director Nicholas McGegan with a production...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2014
HANDEL Tamerlano
What a wonderful opera this is. Tamerlano comes between Giulio Cesare and Rodelinda: not nearly as well known as either,...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 08/2014
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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