Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
Peter Quantrill explores a range of documentaries and concerts from Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel...
Volume 1 of this series was welcomed in these pages (10/17) for values of architectural clarity and expressive restraint which...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2022
This is a genuinely remarkable disc. I say this not from any association of its contents with current events, but...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 06/2022
Pity Joachim Raff. Pity any fine second-rank composer who had the misfortune to work within the orbit of Liszt, Brahms...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2022
The six violin sonatas Mozart composed in Mannheim and Paris during the spring and summer of 1778 don’t often appear...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2022
It’s strange that there aren’t more recordings of Leclair’s Op 5 Violin Sonatas, given how much they have going for...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2022
Given clubbing’s ubiquity, it’s surprising that there are so few club-culture-themed compositions. An outlier is Richard Baker’s sensuously thrilling The...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 06/2022
Previous releases of Taneyev and Borodin (Naxos) and Shostakovich and Auerbach (Odradek) left little doubt as to the Delta Trio’s...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2022
If you’re not an expert on all things flute, the chances are that the names Franz and Karl Doppler and...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2022
When the string quintet (two violins, viola, cello, and double bass) versions of the Chopin concertos appear in the antiquarian...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2022
The Dalí Quartet and Olga Kern give a plainspoken account of Brahms’s F minor Quintet, one that’s rather short on...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2022
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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