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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READ THOMAS The Auditions
Augusta Read Thomas’s association with Nimbus has been crucial to expanding her recorded profile, and this eighth release provides an...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2020
SCHUMANN String Quartets Op 41 (Emerson Quartet)
The Emerson Quartet mark their debut on Pentatone after a long association with DG with the three quartets of Schumann....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2020
SCHUBERT String Quartets Nos 4, 12 & 14 (Quatuor Arod)
In the mythic language of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Arod – the name given to Legolas’s horse –...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2020
SCHUBERT Trio Opus 100. Sonatensatz. Notturno (Busch Trio)
I didn’t expect to begin this review with the single-movement Sonatensatz – and it’s true, you’re not likely to buy...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 12/2020
HENNIES Spectral Malsconcities
When he was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, the composer Giacinto Scelsi nursed himself back to health by playing a...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 12/2020
FUCHS Violin Sonatas Nos 1-3 (Hyejin Chung)
He may long ago have become a footnote in musical history but Robert Fuchs (1847-1927) was more than the able...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2020
BRAHMS Chamber Music (Frank-Gemmill, Gromwood, Gilmore)
Anyone who loves Brahms even a little bit will know what wonderful roles he gave to the horn, not least...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2020
BARSANTI; HANDEL Edinburgh 1742 (Parte seconda)
This sequel delivers entirely wonderful playing from Ensemble Marsyas. Much of what Lindsay Kemp found excellent about the first instalment...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2020
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No 5 (Brabbins)
Martyn Brabbins’s Vaughan Williams symphony cycle continues to go from strength to strength with this impressively cogent, self-effacing Fifth, a...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2020
SHAPERO Orchestral Works (Rose)
Hearing the opening selection without knowing the composer’s identity, one might venture to guess Stravinsky in regard to the bold...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 12/2020
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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