Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
Peter Quantrill explores a range of documentaries and concerts from Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel...
“Solo Works: The ’70s” is not, I admit, a very promising title, evoking as it inevitably does the anaemic vamps...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 06/2011
Piano aficionados may previously have encountered the artistry of Uruguayan pianist Alberto Reyes in a splendid and hard-to-find 1995 Connoisseur...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2011
Tewkesbury Abbey’s two organs are unusual in that they are both large, romantically inclined four-manual instruments not originally intended for...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 06/2011
I’m sure I said in my last classical guitar review that if I heard another recording of Domeniconi’s Koyunbaba, I’d...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2011
The title of this disc may appear oxymoronic but, here, “strength” is of purpose as much as anything else. The...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 06/2011
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was acutely aware of the extremes of fame and obscurity that lay between him (and his...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 06/2011
Back in 1999 the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam invited Bernard Haitink to give a carte blanche series of concerts involving five...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 06/2011
All credit to the festival in Besigheim in Germany for unearthing in 2009 a totally unknown opera by Handel and...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 06/2011
Vänskä is undoubtedly a Sibelian of strong instinct, and his Kullervo enshrines an interpretation of extraordinary grandeur and slumbering, runic...
Reviewed in issue 5/2001
British director Tony Palmer has been making films about music and musicians since the late 1960s, his idées fixes ranging...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2011
Peter Quantrill explores a range of documentaries and concerts from Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel...
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
Speakers with onboard amplification make plenty of sense if you want high performance without all...
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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