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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Exaudi: Exposure
The University of Huddersfield boasts a Centre for Research in New Music, and several of the composers represented on this...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 01/2014
SHEPPARD Choral Works
John Sheppard’s standing among modern commentators is mixed: David Wulstan’s defence of him against his detractors (witheringly styled ‘pundits’) was...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2014
SCHÜTZ Psalmen Davids
The Psalmen Davids of 1619 marked Schütz’s first foray into the realm of sacred music. In its monumentality and its...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2014
PERGOLESI Stabat Mater
The vast Stabat mater discography offers plenty of outstanding interpretations catering for different tastes. Nevertheless, Julia Lezhneva’s bright-eyed tone and...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2014
HEGGIE Here/After - Songs of Lost Voices
The haunting cover photo of the dishevelled sculptor Camille Claudel sets the conceptual tone for song-cycles by Jake Heggie that,...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2014
FAURÉ Mélodies
Though no stranger to the microphone, Ailish Tynan gets in her own way with a sometimes over-sung recital of songs...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2014
A Festival of Britten
For the past few years the National Youth Choir of Great Britain has been among the stars of the BBC...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 01/2014
BRITTEN The Five Canticles
The Wigmore Hall was first out of the stocks in November 2012 with its anniversary programme to mark Britten’s centenary....
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 01/2014
JS BACH A Christmas Oratorio
Philippe Herreweghe’s understated conducting helps to form a smoothly paced narrative from the six cantatas Bach designed for different consecutive...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2014
'The Lark Ascending’
On this recording, Tasmin Little, an acknowledged standard-bearer for, and specialist in, British music, gives us a feast of works...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 01/2014
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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