Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
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VIVALDI Catone in Utica
Ciccolini revives Vivaldi’s 1737 opera with reconstructed Act 1...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2013
Arias for Farinelli
Philippe Jaroussky’s conceptual recital unveils Porpora’s music for his pupil Farinelli. Frédéric Delaméa provides a fascinating essay about the overlapping...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2013
WEBER Der Freischütz
This whole idea falls on the fundamental misapprehension that a stage work is some kind of imperfect shorthand form just...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2013
WAGNER Rienzi
‘Only the very wise can so clearly perceive the very obvious’ was one thought when the 81 year-old stage director...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2013
WAGNER Das Rheingold
Like the first instalment of the Mariinsky Ring (Die Walküre, 5/13), this recording of Das Rheingold is the result of...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2013
RAVEL L’Enfant et les Sortilèges. l’Heure Espagnole
L’heure espagnole was premiered at the Opéra-Comique in 1911, coupled with the first Parisian production of Massenet’s Thérèse. L’enfant et...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2013
PUCCINI La Fanciulla del West
They have a good reason for mounting a new production of La fanciulla del West at the Royal Swedish Opera,...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 11/2013
NONO Intolleranza
In April 1961 Venice’s august Fenice opera house witnessed the explosive premiere of Luigi Nono’s ‘azione scenica’ Intolleranza 1960. What...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 11/2013
MOZART Così fan tutte
This is a follow-up to the Don Giovanni conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin that I welcomed recently (DG, 12/12). Mojca Erdmann...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 11/2013
BUSONI Doktor Faust
The 1920s and ’30s were not kind to composers – all of Berg, Busoni, Elgar and Puccini were struck down...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman 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
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