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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OFFENBACH Les Contes d'Hoffmann
The Tales of Hoffmann, an opéra fantastique, was premiered at the Opéra-Comique in February 1881. Offenbach had been working on...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2014
MUSSORGSKY Boris Godunov
The decision by opera companies to stage Mussorgsky’s original 1868/69 version of Boris Godunov is sometimes dismissed as economic expedience...
Reviewed in issue 05/2014
E HUGHES When the Flame Dies
Beware: this opera may take you hostage with its ability to get under your skin and its willingness to use...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 05/2014
GLUCK Iphigénie en Aulide
Iphigénie en Aulide was the first opera that Gluck wrote for Paris, where it was staged in 1774. It’s not...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 05/2014
CACCINI Euridice
The birth of opera can be traced back to a few significant landmark events in Florence, such as Giulio Caccini’s...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2014
Cellophony: Vibrez!
Cellophony are a talented octet of young British cellists who for their second CD have put together a well-balanced programme...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 05/2014
Through the Looking Glass
Transcription is an art easily taken for granted in post-war music, making the inventiveness of a group such as Alpha...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2014
The Proud Bassoon
Peter Whelan is striving zealously to explode the preconceptions the bassoon is subjected to. This programme of 18th-century music –...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2014
Friends of the Lute
A fictitious letter excerpted in the booklet-notes to this attractive release paints a scene in which WF Bach ‘brings about...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2014
20th Century Wind Quintets
The perky dialogue between oboe and bassoon in André Jolivet’s Sonatine of 1963, while falling outside the general wind-quintet orbit...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 05/2014
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
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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