Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
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SCHUBERT Piano Sonata. Moments Musicaux
With this programme, where concentrated lyricism is sandwiched between two storming masterpieces, Konstanze Eickhorst makes her bid as an inclusive...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 01/2014
Garrick Ohlsson plays Liszt Vol 2
Compared to the full-bodied sound of Lisitsa’s Liszt recital (reviewed above), Garrick Ohlsson’s is ‘cabined, cribbed, confined’ – not unappealing...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2014
Valentina Lisitsa plays Liszt
One could hardly guess from the demure pose struck by Decca’s photogenic soloist for her CD’s booklet that she can...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2014
FRANCK Symphonic organ works
Given that Franck pioneered the concept of the orchestral organ, and with his Grand Pièce symphonique of 1863 effectively created...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 01/2014
CHOPIN Piano Sonata No 2. 24 Preludes
Jean-Philippe Collard was a familiar presence in these pages in the 1970s and ’80s, less so in the succeeding years....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2014
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 11, 18 & 28
Exquisite in taste is the slow movement of Op 22, a beautifully paced Adagio, in the hands of Angela Hewitt....
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 01/2014
Talking Microtonal Blues: The House of Bedlam
Nonclassical continues to go where other alternative labels fear to tread with this release by House of Bedlam – the...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2014
Sonnerie & other portraits: French Baroque chamber works
This is a most delightful recital of early-18th-century French Baroque chamber music. The works have been carefully chosen and comprise...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 01/2014
BRAHMS Quintet (Viola Version) BRIDGE Lament for 2 Violas
I’m confused. The back of the booklet for this CD lists the Frank Bridge Lament as having the catalogue number...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2014
Cuatro: A Tribute to the Music of Spain
Why ‘Cuatro’? Because the four guitarists of the Aquarelle Guitar Quartet are performing, on their fourth recording for Chandos, four...
Reviewed by William Yeoman 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
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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