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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SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 9 & 10 (Noseda)
Gianandrea Noseda continues his idiomatic-sounding LSO Shostakovich cycle with another generous pairing. Conventionally paced, the Ninth’s opening Allegro retains a...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2021
MARTINAITYTE Saudade
The large-scale ensemble project In Search of Lost Beauty … (Starkland, 4/19) alerted many listeners to the intricately alluring sonic...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2021
MAHLER Symphony No 4 (Hrůša)
Not for the first time the music industry has had to adapt to new socio-economic realities and I half expected...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2021
KANCHELI Symphonies 1-7 (Kakhidze)
The symphonies of Giya Kancheli (1935-2019) constitute a truly remarkable body of work. They come out of the context of...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2021
HARRIS Symphony No 6 'Last Letter'
Both of these substantial offerings by New Zealander Ross Harris (b1945) employ texts by his countryman and favourite collaborator, Vincent...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2021
ELGAR Violin Concerto. Violin Sonata (Renaud Capuçon)
About Elgar’s Violin Concerto, Diana McVeagh once commented: ‘To listen to the Violin Concerto is at times like eavesdropping on...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 04/2021
Caprices and Laments (Maximiliano Martín)
‘He has a temper, a primitive force harsh and clumsy, with a smattering of blue-eyed Danish amenity.’ So wrote a...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 04/2021
BRAHMS Double Concerto (Thielemann)
In the Brahms Concerto, speaking metaphorically, the soloists’ courtship takes a little time to reach marriage status. The opening cadenzas...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2021
BEETHOVEN Symphony No 7 (Currentzis)
As related in Peter Quantrill’s booklet note for this dynamic MusicAeterna Seventh, Teodor Currentzis seeks ‘an architecture that uncovers spirituality,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 04/2021
BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto. Trio Op 36 (arr of Symphony No 2)
My days of Beethoven Triple Concerto scepticism are now behind me, thanks to this breathtaking new recording by the powerhouse...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2021
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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