Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
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HINDEMITH Violin Concerto
No sooner had I finished praising to the skies Frank Peter Zimmermann’s wonderful new account of Hindemith’s great Violin Concerto...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2013
GLASS; FRANÇAIX Harpsichord Concertos
Take three concertos composed for the harpsichord and the stylistic range of post-war music would most likely be made evident....
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2013
ELGAR Emigma Variations
‘You’re so far away,’ said Leonard Bernstein upon first meeting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in its expansive rehearsal room. ‘Do...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2013
ELGAR Enigma Variations
‘You’re so far away,’ said Leonard Bernstein upon first meeting the BBC Symphony Orchestra in its expansive rehearsal room. ‘Do...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2013
DVOŘÁK Violin Concerto. Romance. Mazurek
The Dvořák is the one great Romantic concerto previously missing from the discography of Anne-Sophie Mutter and her record label...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2013
DUSAPIN Jetzt Genau! Quod, in memoriam Gilles Deleuze
Pascal Dusapin is among the most-recorded of present-day European composers and this new disc makes available three concertante works drawn...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2013
BRUCKNER Symphony No 1
Buyer beware: if you snapped up DG’s Claudio Abbado Symphony Edition, released earlier this year to celebrate the great man’s...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 11/2013
BRITTEN Violin Concerto
Britten’s masterly Violin Concerto really seems to have come into its own in recent years. I first made its acquaintance...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2013
BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 3 & 4
There are one or two magical moments here. The most obvious wafts in for the coda of the Third Symphony’s...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2013
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No 5. Symphony No 5
Is it me or are Beethoven pianists getting younger? This month I’ve had the pleasure of encountering not only Igor...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2013
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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