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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KALITZKE Die Besessenen
Die Besessenen (‘The Possessed’) is based on a 1930s novel by Witold Gombrowicz whose bizarre and lurid plot suggests affiliations...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 08/2013
Conrad Tao: Voyages
‘Conrad Tao has already accomplished more than most musicians do in a lifetime,’ proclaims EMI’s website. To demonstrate Tao’s eclectic...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2013
Jenny Lin: Get Happy
I first came across the Taiwanese-American pianist Jenny Lin in 2002 on a terrific Chinese-themed disc for BIS. Lin doesn’t...
Reviewed in issue 08/2013
John Tilbury plays Cardew and Sikorski
In 1961 the London-born pianist John Tilbury – an associate of Cornelius Cardew and Howard Skempton – relocated to Warsaw...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 08/2013
SCHUMANN Études symphoniques Op 13. Fantasiestücke Op 12
Right from the opening notes of Freddy Kempf’s new Schumann disc, you grasp what his approach will be, for his...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2013
MOMPOU Piano Works
Who would have imagined Arcadi Volodos in Mompou? Celebrated in outsize virtuoso repertoire and for his cool take on the...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2013
LISZT Piano Sonata
A programme of familiar Liszt made thrillingly unfamiliar. Expert Liszt Sonatas may be thick on the ground but few are...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2013
ESPLÁ Music for Piano
Few pianists take a more honoured position in Spain’s musical life than Martin Jones. He now adds to his Iberian...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2013
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Vol 4
For once the hyperbole rings true. Christian Leotta’s fourth volume of Beethoven sonatas is indeed ‘a major addition to other...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2013
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas
The many virtues and occasional drawbacks characterising the first two instalments of François-Frédéric Guy’s Beethoven cycle spill over into this...
Reviewed by Distler in issue: 08/2013
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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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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