Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
Peter Quantrill explores a range of documentaries and concerts from Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel...
For a quintessentially French opera, there are surprisingly few recordings of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande with a French orchestra. There...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2021
This disc would be notable if only because it’s the debut recital recording of the much-awarded and much-travelled New Zealand-born...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2021
The surprise with this vocal recital is that there aren’t more like it. The selected programme is prompted by pandemic-era...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2021
I’m a bit of a Scrooge when it comes to opera singers doing Christmas albums, but Christiane Karg’s new disc...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 12/2021
Je suis Barbara, je suis Britten … This eclectic, if not eccentric song recital by the musically promiscuous French countertenor...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 12/2021
Albion Records’ exploration of Vaughan Williams’s complete published arrangements of folk song in English with instrumental accompaniment has now reached...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2021
The uncredited but intimately informed booklet notes to this reissue reference David Bowie’s discerning admiration for the Four Last Songs...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 12/2021
These days you can never predict how performers are going to present Schubert’s posthumously published non-cycle. What we get here...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2021
Surely not another Pärt compilation! Yes, and a compelling one it is. While it is true that I could probably...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2021
The young German soprano Dorothea Herbert is clearly at the start of a promising career; a budding Wagnerian with several...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2021
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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