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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The Phoenix Rising
Stile Antico’s ‘The Phoenix Rising’ is both a celebration and a cautionary tale. It’s a celebration of the breadth and...
Reviewed in issue 09/2013
The Lost City: Lamentations Through the Ages
The lost city is Jerusalem, and it is the Lamentations of Jeremiah that provides the text of the nine pieces...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2013
R. Strauss Tone Poems
The playing of the Berlin Philharmonic on both the 1973 and 1983 sets is as glorious as ever; its virtuosity...
Reviewed in issue 1/1996
Art Nouveau: Songs by Strauss, Zemlinsky, Ravel, Respighi
No, not Angela Gheorghiu. This is her Romanian compatriot Teodora, who launched her musical career as a flautist, became a...
Reviewed by Geoffrey–Norris in issue: 09/2013
STANFORD Songs of the Sea VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS Songs of Travel
It makes an ideal coupling linking Stanford’s breezy settings of Henry Newbolt in Songs of the Sea and Songs of...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 09/2013
SCHNEIDER Winter Morning Walks
Without reading the booklet-notes by composer Maria Schneider and soprano Dawn Upshaw, you know that life beyond tragedy is celebrated...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2013
ROTH Sometime I Sing
Specially composed for Mark Padmore and Morgan Szymanski, Alec Roth’s song-cycle My Lute and I harnesses language and music in...
Reviewed by Geoffrey–Norris in issue: 09/2013
RORE Missa Doulce mémoire. Missa a note negre
Cipriano de Rore is best known today as one of the finest exponents of the madrigal but his sacred output...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2013
Vivit! Choral works by Reger and Tobias
This compilation juxtaposes a selection of short choral pieces by two late Romantics, Max Reger and Rudolf Tobias, born in...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2013
PĘKIEL Missa Concertata La Lombardesca
This rich celebration of the early Polish Baroque features a brace of Mass settings by Bartłomiej Pe˛kiel and half a...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2013
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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