Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
Peter Quantrill explores a range of documentaries and concerts from Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel...
In much-recorded pieces such as these, you really have to get everything right to bear comparison with earlier versions. The...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2021
For the third volume in his traversal of Bach’s organ works, James Johnstone presents a programme that could be said...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 04/2021
Mark Viner’s fourth volume in his complete Alkan odyssey is artfully conceived and astutely ordered. He opens with the only...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2021
The stars of this programme are the instruments themselves, all of which come from the Violins of Hope project. Originally...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2021
Steven Isserlis and Connie Shih take Proust as the starting point for their new themed album. Given that music itself...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2021
Neither Bradford-born, French-domiciled Frederick Delius’s posthumous Violin Sonata in B of 1892 nor John Ireland’s First Violin Sonata of 1909...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2021
It’s a rare violinist who gets the chance to perform on Paganini’s favourite violin, the 1743 Guarneri del Gesù he...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2021
Back in the day, older readers might recall, some of us made compilation cassettes of favourite music to impress/woo/entertain loved...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2021
What is so hip about HIP? When Purcell is played in a pub or Handel is remixed by a DJ...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 04/2021
This debut recording from the Oculi Ensemble features the two extremities of Richard Strauss’s creative life, from his days as...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2021
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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