Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
Peter Quantrill explores a range of documentaries and concerts from Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel...
Here’s the most exciting tenor discovery to come my way since the appearance of Jonas Kaufmann on the big international...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 10/2022
Music for percussion is more abundant than one might assume. Beyond the confines of the symphony orchestra lies a vast...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2022
Little can be added to Andrew Farach-Colton’s detailed article in the November 2021 issue about the the life and art...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2022
Karl Kohn, Professor Emeritus at Pomona College in California, where he taught for over 40 years, made frequent appearances on...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 09/2022
Bright, brash, breezy: attributes one often associates with American orchestral music and which Peter Boyer (b1970) delivers in spadefuls. Right...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2022
In the period since he made his first recording of music by Bach (2009), guitarist Jason Vieaux has explored a...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2022
To mix Wagnerian metaphors for an instant, the holy grail of Wagner’s Tristan seems to have been a frequent target...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2022
It’s a sure-fire bet that, in our age of ‘deconstructed’ stagings, two of the first items to disappear from view...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2022
The urgency to record Lisette Oropesa in La traviata was inevitable after her breakthrough 2015 role debut as Violetta at...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2022
‘What Song the Syrens sang’, wrote Sir Thomas Browne, ‘or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women,...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2022
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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