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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Hallgató
It’s no exaggeration to say ‘Hallgató’ turns the outsider experience inside-out, creating an alt-alterity by deftly bringing together Hungarian, Jewish,...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2021
Adam Walker: French Works For Flute
In 2013 Ivan March wrote enthusiastically of ‘Vocalise’, the young LSO principal flautist Adam Walker’s debut recital disc accompanied by...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2021
Belle Époque: French Music for Wind (Orsino Ensemble)
Founded in 2018 by Adam Walker to explore the chamber repertory for wind instruments, the Orsino Ensemble are joined for...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2021
MOZART Violin Sonatas Fragment Completions (completed Timothy Jones)
Completed fragments are curious things. Are they there to render playable music that would otherwise be lost to us? If...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2021
MENDELSSOHN; MONTGEROULT; VIOTTI; WEBER Violin Sonatas (Sophie Rosa)
How clever to pair sonatas by Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755-1824) and Hélène de Montgeroult (1764-1836). Renowned virtuosos and pedagogues as...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2021
LANGGAARD Complete Works for Violin & Piano, Vol 3
Here ends Dacapo’s three-disc survey of Rued Langgaard’s complete works for violin and piano, led by two of the composer’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2021
KAHN Leaves from the Tree of Life
The rediscovery of music suppressed in the Third Reich continues with this release of music by Robert Kahn (1865-1951), a...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2021
A French Connection
Beyond ‘fabulous’, it’s not always easy to put a finger on what exactly Ernst Chausson’s ear-grabbing Concert in D, Op...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2021
BRAHMS Viola Sonatas. Zwei Gesange Op 91 (Antoine Tamestit)
Allegro amabile, the tempo indication for the first movement of Brahms’s Op 120 No 2, seems almost an invitation from...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2021
Prism III - Beethoven, Bartok, JS Bach
When Beethoven shares the theme of Op 131’s Andante between the two violins, it’s like two friends, not always but...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 05/2021
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
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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