Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
Peter Quantrill explores a range of documentaries and concerts from Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel...
The Dunedin Consort recently demonstrated that the unabridged first performance version of Samson (1743) is a complex masterpiece of musical...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2020
It’s hard on Elīna Garanča that her darkly opulent take on Sea Pictures should appear so soon after Kathryn Rudge’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2020
In the right hands, ‘incidental’ and ‘occasional’ Beethoven, even from the often-overlooked and underrated period of the early 1810s, turns...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2020
This fascinating collection focuses on the two American poets set (probably) more often than any others, Emily Dickinson and Walt...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2020
The Cavatina Duo are always on the lookout for ways to expand the repertoire for flute and guitar. For their...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2020
Jan Järvlepp (b1953 in Ottawa) is a Canadian composer of Finnish-Estonian parentage. The works here are direct in expression, colourfully...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2020
Leopold Stokowski thought so highly of William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony that he conducted the work’s premiere in 1934 with...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 09/2020
The premiere recording of Michael Daugherty’s tribute to Woody Guthrie recalls populist chords in American history when homeless citizens rode...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 09/2020
Oscar Wilde’s late plays and stories, so un-politically correct and obsessed with death, proved rich pickings for composers and librettists...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 09/2020
All the principals involved in this second instalment of Simon Rattle’s Bavarian Ring in progress have extensive stage experience of...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2020
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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