Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
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SHAW Rectangles and Circumstance
Caroline Shaw’s association with percussion quartet Sō Percussion goes back to their graduate school days at Yale University some 20...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2024
SCHUMANN String Quartets. Piano Quintet
As musical birthday presents go, Schumann’s three string quartets vie with Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll – both were dedicated to the...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2024
HUBER Piano Quintets Nos 1 & 2
Swiss composer Hans Huber (1852-1921) – whose output included five operas, eight symphonies (recorded two decades and more ago by...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2024
GUDMUNDSEN-HOLMGREEN String Quartets Nos 7-10
Reviewing Volume 1 of this cycle (5/19), Andrew Mellor welcomed the ‘tight, no-nonsense and considered performances’ by the Nordic Quartet....
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2024
GIPPS Piper of Dreams: Chamber Music for Oboe
No doubt as to the standout item on this latest volume from Chandos devoted to the music of Ruth Gipps...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2024
FELDMAN Complete Music for Cello and Piano (Stephen Marotto)
The title of Patterns in a Chromatic Field invites a visual analogy to the American school of abstract expressionism that...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2024
BRAHMS String Quintets (Gringolts Quartet, Lilli Maijala)
To tackle Op 111 first, one of the truly great string quintets, the upper strings’ pulsing semiquavers (cast in 9/8...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2024
BEETHOVEN Piano Trios Vol 3 (Sitkovetsky Trio)
Just as in his symphonies, Beethoven found a new character, a new mode of expression for each of his piano...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2024
BARTÓK; DOHNÁNYI Piano Quintets
It’s always good to see the music of Ernst von Dohnányi paired with his more celebrated contemporaries. There was more...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2024
Our Gilded Veins
Reflections ‘on memory, loss and healing’ by composers ‘with strong links to Scotland’ – which perhaps explains the involvement of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards 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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