Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
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Vienna: Joyful Apocalypse (Aurelien Pontier)
Recorded in the Salle Colonne, Paris, in 2021, Aurélien Pontier’s album is ‘an act of homage to the Vienna of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2024
Samaroff & La Forge: Complete Solo Recordings
Olga Samaroff and Frank La Forge – two names which I suspect will be unfamiliar to many readers. Almost exact...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2024
Reformation: Keyboard Works by Byrd, Gibbons, Bull & Sweelinck (Mishka Rushdie Momen)
Pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen covers much of the same ground in this album of keyboard works by the English virginalists...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 09/2024
Fazil Say: Morning/Evening
A disc arrives for review, you see the name of the artist(s), you survey the repertoire and already your critical...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2024
Handel Remembered (Kenneth Hamilton)
Kenneth Hamilton’s writings about Romantic performance practice are always erudite, insightful, vividly expressed and delightfully witty, and this holds true...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2024
SWEELINCK Keyboard Works (Andrea Vivanet)
The Italian pianist Andrea Vivanet is smart to mix a representative spectrum of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck’s basic compositional forms –...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 09/2024
LE BRET Pieces de Clavecin (Simone Pierini)
Well here’s a name that’s probably new to most of us. Le Bret published a single book of harpsichord pieces...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2024
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas Nos 28 & 29 (James Brawn)
In 2013 James Brawn launched his ‘Beethoven Odyssey’, a survey of the composer’s 32 piano sonatas that reaches its final...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2024
Rooted: Smetana, Suk, Martin, Coleridge-Taylor
The Neave Trio are noted for their eclectic choice of repertoire, and here their broad interests once again illuminate unfamiliar...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 09/2024
An die Musik: Works for Cello & Piano
Cellists are fully warranted in their appropriation, via the art of transcription, of works for other instruments. After all, violinists...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2024
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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