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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British Oboe Quintets (Nicholas Daniel. Doric String Quartet)
The chamber combination of oboe and string quartet would seem to lend itself ideally to the pastoral image of British...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 10/2021
ROTA Chamber Music
In addition to his many film scores, Nino Rota also composed numerous concert and stage works as well as working...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2021
MYASKOVSKY Cello Sonatas RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Serenade
That Myaskovsky mavens have been denied an incontrovertibly top-notch coupling of these pieces arguably no longer matters. We have many...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2021
LECLAIR; SENAILLE Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord
Although only one of the four sonatas for violin and continuo by Jean-Baptiste Senaillé offered here is claimed as a...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2021
LANGGAARD Music of the Abyss
Even in his twenties – his acclaimed Symphony No 1 already introduced to the world by the Berlin Philharmonic –...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2021
The Viennese Viola
Back in August 2019, when nobody thought twice about filling an intimate performance space to capacity, I attended a very...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2021
BRUCH String Quintets. Octet
Who would have thought, back in the 1990s, that we would one day have competing recordings of Bruch’s string quintets...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 10/2021
BRAHMS Cello Sonatas. Liebeslieder (Emmanuelle Bertrand)
This disc’s title led me to expect cello and-piano arrangements of the Liebeslieder Waltzes, and my heart leapt at the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2021
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonatas, Vol 2 (Michael Foyle)
The Scottish-Estonian duo of Michael Foyle and Maksim Štšura swiftly follow up their first volume of Beethoven’s violin sonatas (4/21)...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 10/2021
Presteigne Premieres: New Music for String Orchestra
If not the highest-profile conductor of his generation, George Vass has an enviable record in commissioning and premiering music by...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2021
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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