Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
Peter Quantrill explores a range of documentaries and concerts from Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel...
On the evidence of this disc, the violin sonata is alive and kicking in 21st-century America. The form has a...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2020
'The Beauty of 17th Century Violin Music’ is Lina Tur Bonet’s subtitle for this new release with her ensemble Musica...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2020
If you’re the sort who likes to know exactly what’s going on, you may well find this album frustrating. What...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 08/2020
Why did the string trio of violin, viola and cello never really catch on as a genre? Mozart, having written...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2020
Christoph Eschenbach and the Thymos Quartet had me smiling from the very first bars of Schubert’s Trout Quintet. How affectionately...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2020
Old-school musicologists may scoff but these exceptionally melodic sonatas are now among the most frequently played of their kind. Not...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 08/2020
The arresting output of Naomi Pinnock (b1979) has not received much exposure in the UK (the Huddersfield Festival excepted), so...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2020
How many student cellists have fallen in love, despite themselves, with the studies of Alfredo Piatti? It’s not that they’re...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2020
Based at the University of Huddersfield, the Australian composer Liza Lim is one of a growing number of contemporary composers...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 08/2020
Charles Burney hit the nail on the head. The Op 76 quartets, he wrote, were proof of Haydn’s enduringly youthful...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2020
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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