Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
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WAGNER Der Ring des Nibelungen
Ever since Eduard Hanslick’s complaints of too much talk of steam and dragons (at Das Rheingold’s Munich premiere in September...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2013
Villazon sings Verdi
It was good to see and hear this tenor back in action at the end of 2012 with this not-so-everyday...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2013
TCHAIKOVSKY Iolanta STRAVINSKY Perséphone
With Gerard Mortier at the helm, the Teatro Real de Madrid is going from strength to strength. Iolanta, a one-act...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2013
R STRAUSS 3 Hymns. Opera arias
Ten years ago Soile Isokoski won the Editor’s Choice Gramophone Award for Strauss’s Vier letzte Lieder (4/02) and this follow-up...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 01/2013
STRAUSS Arabella
Arabella’s premiere in 1933 in Dresden marked a return to fortune for Strauss and Hofmannsthal after the mixed receptions of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2013
PUCCINI Tosca
Hot on the heels of Il trittico from Opus Arte comes another Puccini DVD from the Royal Opera, this time...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 01/2013
PUCCINI Suor Angelica
Separate recordings of Suor Angelica outside the trilogy of Il trittico are few and far between. Generally regarded as the...
Reviewed by Richard Fairman in issue: 01/2013
MOZART Don Giovanni
Unlike Joseph Losey’s famous (but seriously overrated) 1979 film (Second Sight, 4/08), this is not a ‘straight’ screen adaptation of...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2013
MASCAGNI Cavalleria Rusticana LEONCAVALLO I Pagliacci
We know European theatre traditions – and the first opera here does play at Easter (which Santuzza curses) – but...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2013
LIGETI Le Grand Macabre
Originally projected to be an Oedipus with libretto by Göran Gentele, György Ligeti’s 1974-77 commission for the Stockholm Royal Opera...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 01/2013
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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