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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BRAHMS Piano Quintet Op 34. String Quintet Op 111
In 2018 the Pavel Haas Quartet won their sixth Gramophone Award for a recording coupling Dvořák’s Piano Quintet (with Boris...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2022
Stockholm Diary
All the composers included on this intriguing and beautiful album hail from cool climes but lived (or spent significant time)...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2022
Renewal
Following up on their very well-received debut album ‘In Motion’ (2/21), the United Strings of Europe (formed by students at...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2022
Raffaele La Ragione: Mandolin on Stage
Many of these performances warm into truly enjoyable interpretations, though what inspires this slowly-does-it, tentative approach, I’m not certain. Take...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2022
Simon Callaghan: British Piano Concertos
The title of this album, ‘British Piano Concertos’, may be self-effacing but the contents are anything but, with five of...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 06/2022
WEINBERG Works for Cello & Orchestra. Chamber Symphony No 4 (Pieter Wispelwey)
Weinberg’s recorded coverage expands apace, this release featuring three of his concertante works in readings that eschew the asperities of...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 06/2022
STOJOWSKI Symphony Op 21. Suite for Orchestra Op 9 (Wit)
It is not difficult to guess why Zygmunt (sometimes Sigismond) Stojowski’s Symphony in D minor, Op 21 (1898) failed to...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2022
SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos 2 & 4 (Hughes)
The second instalment of Owain Arwel Hughes’s Sibelius cycle is a pairing of the Second and Fourth Symphonies with a...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2022
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No 5 WEILL Symphony No 2 (Shani)
An eye- (and ear-) catching coupling. Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony is front and centre of the core repertoire these days –...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2022
SAINT-SAËNS Piano Concertos 1 & 2 (Alexandre Kantorow)
The prospect of a recording of any of Saint-Saëns’s works for piano and orchestra is always a delightful one. You...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2022
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
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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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