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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I Still Play
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to claim that new music during the past 30 years or so would have taken...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2020
SCHUMANN Waldszenen, Nachtstücke & Humoreske
The Hungarian pianist Zoltán Fejérvári, a 2016 Borletti-Buitoni fellow and winner of the Montreal competition the following year, is a...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2020
Finbarr Malafronte: Maestros of the Baroque
If you’re used to the brilliance of the harpsichord music of Rameau and Scarlatti on the instrument for which it...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2020
Anna Paradiso plays Paradisi
The keyboard sonatas of Pietro Domenico Paradisi are robust, inventive works, first published in London in 1754. Anna Paradiso misses...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 08/2020
KABALEVSKY Complete Preludes (Michael Korstick)
Once upon a time Dmitry Kabalevsky enjoyed a place on the fourth pedestal of Soviet composers alongside Shostakovich, Prokofiev and...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 08/2020
COUPERIN Complete harpsichord works, Vol 2 (Bertrand Cuiller)
Normally, when I have a good feeling about a recording from an initial dip my admiration grows with repeated listening...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 08/2020
BERSA Complete Piano Music, Vol 2 (Goran Filipec)
The works featured on Grand Piano’s second volume of piano music by the prolific and multifaceted Croatian composer Blagoje Bersa...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2020
BARMOTIN Piano Music (Christopher Williams)
Not just his music but even the name Semyon Barmotin (1877-1939) languished for decades in obscurity, Gérald Hugon’s booklet note...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2020
BACH The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 (Trevor Pinnock)
Because Trevor Pinnock’s solo harpsichord forays are few and far between these days, it’s easy to forget just what a...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2020
ALKAN Grande Sonate (Mark Viner)
Did you know that for the entire era of 78rpm shellac discs (that’s to say from the late 1890s to...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 08/2020
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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