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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JOHNSTON String Quartets Nos 1, 5 & 10
Ben Johnston’s got to be some kind of genius. Anyone who can simultaneously make a string quartet sound like a...
Reviewed by Philip_Clark in issue: 07/2011
Music for the Queen of Scots
Among the hardest challenges in all music must be to keep over an hour’s worth of recorder quartet-playing alive without...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 07/2011
SCHUMANN Complete Piano Trios
“It would be idle to pretend they are among his best works, for they all date from the years when...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2011
CHAUSSON; DEBUSSY; WIDOR Piano Trios
An enterprising programme here from the Trio Paian. I’ve long had a great affection for Chausson’s only Piano Trio, written...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2011
LISZT Piano Sonata, S178
The pianist, we are told in the booklet biography, is an artist whose “consummate technique enables her to coax unimaginable...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2011
JS BACH Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas
Listening to the opening of the First Sonata’s Adagio, played with little vibrato and flexible interpretation of the ornamental flourishes,...
Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 07/2011
René Pape sings Wagner
There is a long tradition of singers graduating from the Wagnerian bel canto of Wolfram in Tannhäuser to the more...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2011
VERDI 'Opera Scenes'
If you stumbled upon this live concert recording under the clandestine circumstances of some blog, the insider status would override...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2011
Wagner and Me
This absorbing documentary ends as Stephen Fry enters the Bayreuth Festival Theatre for a 2009 performance. His last words to...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2011
One Day Fine
Composed in 1933, Moeran’s Songs of Springtime is a superb example of the kind of unaccompanied secular choral writing at...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 07/2011
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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