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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MOZART Die Zauberflöte (Jones)
This is a restaging of the production by David McVicar that was first seen in 2003, subsequently issued on DVD....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 02/2022
Elsa Dreisig: Mozart x 3
Anyone who read her interview in January’s Gramophone will have got the message that Elsa Dreisig is a singer who...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 02/2022
LEONCAVALLO Zazà (Soltész)
Christof Loy is making a habit of turning pandemic theatre to his advantage. In summer 2020 he conjured up a...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 02/2022
HANDEL Arias (Barnaby Smith)
Voces8’s artistic director, countertenor Barnaby Smith, goes solo here with an album of extracts from Handel’s operas and oratorios, along...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2022
BRIAN Faust (Brabbins)
In his final years, the work of his Havergal Brian most wanted to hear was his fourth opera, Faust. His...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2022
Taliesin’s Songbook
Champions of Welsh music past and present, the Cardiff-based Tŷ Cerdd label gives us a survey of 20th- and 21st-century...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 02/2022
The Hermes Experiment: Song
The Hermes Experiment are a vibrant, deeply musical quartet. Pwyll ap Siôn welcomed their previous album, ‘Here We Are’, as...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 02/2022
Francesca Aspromonte: Maria and Maddalena
Soprano Francesca Aspromonte follows her fine recital of Baroque operatic prologues (8/18) with an equally enterprising ‘concept’ album devoted to...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 02/2022
The Florentine Renaissance (The Orlando Consort)
On their new recording, The Orlando Consort collaborate with musicologist Patrick Macey on works by Dufay and Florentine music composed...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 02/2022
SCHUBERT Winterreise (James Rutherford)
Almost six years on from the release of a handsome account of Schwanengesang (6/16), James Rutherford and Eugene Asti are...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 02/2022
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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