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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JS BACH The Complete Works For Keyboard, Vol 5 (Benjamin Alard)
Benjamin Alard’s majestic progress through the keyboard music of Bach has reached Vol 5, subtitled ‘Toccata’ and encompassing works from...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2022
Christian-Pierre La Marca: Wonderful World
Rather aptly, Gramophone’s 2021 Concept Album Award-winner Christian-Pierre La Marca has not only gone conceptual again for his second album...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2022
Sol & Pat
William Blake’s aphorism ‘no bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings’ can be interpreted to mirror...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 01/2022
The Myth of Venice: 16th-Century Music for Cornetto & Keyboards
The standout moment on this album is the Ricercar del VI tuono by Annibale Padovano. Silas Wollston’s performance feels far...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2022
Ferio Saxophone Quartet: Evoke
The saxophone quartet may not be an unexplored medium these days, but few outfits are as enterprising as Ferio, now...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2022
Bach Before Bach
There are two lines of thought going on in this enjoyable collaboration between violinist Chouchane Siranossian, harpsichordist Leonardo García Alarcón...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2022
SAINT-SAËNS Chamber Music with Winds
The players of the Orchestre de Paris mark the centenary of Saint-Saëns’s death with a survey of his chamber works...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2022
Four Trumpet Sonatas after Mozart (Jonathan Freeman-Attwood)
Mozart’s relationship with the trumpet was famously antipathetic. He is reported to have been terrified by the instrument as a...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2022
Crossroads: American Violin Sonatas
The American violin sonata remains a slightly neglected corner of the repertoire for European artists and audiences (and ditto for...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2022
BRAHMS Viola Sonatas 1 & 2 SCHUMANN Adagio and Allegro (Philip Dukes)
The other day a friend of mine in her 80s told me that she sees an old lady when she...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2022
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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