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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Schöne Welt, Wo Bist Du?
As precious as the title sounds to hardened urbanites, it serves warning about the singular musical world created by this...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2013
Bailes, Tonadas & Cachuas (from Trujillo, Peru)
Three years ago I reviewed Hesperion XXI’s very enjoyable anthology of early Latin American music (‘El Nuevo Mundo’ – Alia...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2013
Amore e morte dell’amore
An album of Baroque love duets seems to tumble off the presses every other month. Not that I’m complaining when...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2013
TALLIS Salve intemerata virgo. Missa Salve intemerata
The Cardinall’s Musick have won plaudits for their Tallis in the past and their return to him after a hiatus...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2013
SZYMANOWSKI Stabat Mater. Harnasie
Two of Szymanowski’s most sublime later works here receive performances entirely commensurate with their stature and thoroughly in tune with...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2013
RACHMANINOV The Bells. Symphonic Dances
Compared with the UK and the USA, Germany has in general been slow to embrace the music of Rachmaninov, or...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2013
PUTS To Touch the Sky. Symphony No 4
With the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music under his belt (for his debut opera, Silent Night), all ears are turned...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2013
PURCELL How pleasant ‘tis to Love!
An unexpected sound greets you at the very beginning of this CD: ‘Sound the trumpet’ as a duet not for...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2013
Mascagni in Concert
Gianandrea Noseda’s latest expedition down lesser-trodden musical byways of his native country presents us with a chronologically wide-ranging orchestral programme...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2013
BINGEN 'Celestial Hierarchy'. Ordo Virtutum
The first item here is the completion and culmination of Sequentia’s heroic 30-year path towards recording the entire music of...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/2013
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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