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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DONIZETTI La fille du régiment (Spotti)
La fille du régiment, Donizetti’s opéra-comique, receives a Latin American makeover in Luis Ernesto Doñas’s staging for Bergamo’s Donizetti Festival...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2022
On This Shining Night: Music For Voice and String Quartet
Roderick Williams teams up with the admirable Coull Quartet for an uncommonly fine account of Samuel Barber’s Dover Beach, which,...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2022
Lux aeterna (The Gesualdo Six)
As always with The Gesualdo Six, the thing that strikes one most forcibly on first listening is the ensemble’s extraordinary...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2022
Lieder: Berg, Schumann, Wolf, Shostakovich, Brahms (Matthias Goerne)
The transience of human existence is the leitmotif of Matthias Goerne’s latest recital, charting a journey from sleep and oblivion...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 10/2022
Fatma Said: Kaleidoscope
Fatma Said’s debut album ‘El Nour’ rightly caused a stir on its release in 2020, earning the Egyptian soprano Gramophone...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2022
Hildegard Portraits
This is a Hildegard recital with a twist, the life and work of the saint (canonised in 2012) interpreted not...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2022
WOLF Italienisches Liederbuch (Allan Clayton, Carolyn Sampson)
Hugo Wolf’s Italian Songbook has attracted many great pairings of singers in the past. This new recording, however, makes a...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2022
SENFL Motets and Songs
I’ve long admired the Regensburg-based ensemble Singer Pur for their egoless music-making. Recent highlights are two sets (also on this...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2022
Crepuscolo: Songs by Ottorino Respighi (Timothy Fallon)
With every new exposure to Respighi’s vocal music – whether opera or song – I find that his much better-known...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2022
Stranger: Works For Tenor By Nico Muhly (Nicolas Phan)
In a BBC Radio 3 podcast first aired in 2016, composer Nico Muhly stated that one of the things that...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2022
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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