Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
Peter Quantrill explores a range of documentaries and concerts from Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel...
The catalogue of William McClelland (b1950), as viewed on his website wmcclelland.com, is relatively modest in numbers, divided largely between...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2022
The String Orchestra of Brooklyn’s new album features first recordings of works that transform notions of what 22 strings and...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2022
Cellists must be eternally grateful to Beethoven for his role in transforming their instrument from supporting player to fully fledged...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2022
Half the action of The Passenger takes place in the hell-on-earth of Auschwitz and the other half in the false...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2022
There are many memorable fat knights in the Falstaff discography, so it’s all the more splendid to have another Sir...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 10/2022
In his 1718 autobiography Telemann mentioned that in Frankfurt he had composed about 20 serenatas for weddings. These were entirely...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2022
Alas, the music of Schütz’s Dafne is entirely lost. Whether or not the ‘pastoral tragi-comedy’ was really the first German...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2022
Thanks to Barrie Kosky’s production at the Royal Opera, everyone now imagines that Shostakovich’s opera The Nose contains a scene...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 10/2022
When Offenbach’s Le voyage dans la Lune opened in Paris in 1875, every single review mentioned Jules Verne. Verne himself...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2022
What a surprise! This comic opera, popular in its day, has been languishing as a passing reference in the history...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 10/2022
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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