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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HANDEL Ariodante (Capuano)
The basic premise of this production is completely bonkers. The first warning comes during the Overture: as the cast freezes,...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2021
GOUNOD Faust (Ettinger)
Premiered as long ago as 2004 (although telecast, then pirated, quite early in its life), this production was one of...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2021
ARNE Artaxerxes (Page)
A lot has changed in the decade since this Artaxerxes was originally released. Ian Page’s Classical Opera Company has become...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2021
Kate Lindsey: Tiranno
Last year Kate Lindsey, Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo brought together Handel, Haydn and Alessandro Scarlatti in a fascinating exploration of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 07/2021
Freddie De Tommaso: Passione
When I first heard Freddie De Tommaso – as Cassio in Otello at Covent Garden – I noted how he...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2021
Isolation Songbook
Some of us baked, others did DIY, and most of us managed our daily walks. Mezzo Helen Charlston and baritone...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2021
Hollandse Fragmenten: Early Dutch Polyphony
Twelve years ago the group Capilla Flamenca, under the late and much-lamented Dirk Snellings, produced a marvellous CD of music...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 07/2021
James Geer: Dreams Melting
Most names here will be familiar to those who know mid-20th-century music in the UK but not necessarily as art-song...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2021
And the Sun Darkened: Music for Passiontide
It’s an evocative title, and the music to go with this Passiontide programme by New York Polyphony is just as...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2021
STRAUSS Song Cycles (Daniel Behle)
The primary claim to fame of Richard Strauss’s Krämerspiegel, the bitingly satirical song-cycle he grudgingly wrote to fulfil a historic...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2021
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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