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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LE JEUNE Le Printemps
Claude Le Jeune (1528/30-1600) was one of the more adventurous composers of the late 16th century and part of a...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 08/2020
LASSUS Inferno (Reuss)
As with Brahms, Lassus’s late style tends towards concision and seriousness – words he himself used to describe these qualities....
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2020
HANDEL Continuo Cantatas
The harpsichordist Christian Kjos presents five continuo cantatas composed in Italy between late 1706 and early 1710. Nice, che fa?...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2020
CLEVE Missa Rex Babylonis (Cinquecento)
Since their inception, Cinquecento have shone a light on the Imperial Habsburg court, which hitherto had warranted barely a metaphorical...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 08/2020
BONONCINI La Conversione Di Maddalena (La Venexiana)
Before Bononcini joined Handel writing operas for London’s King’s Theatre during the 1720s, the highly esteemed Modenese composer, cellist and...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2020
BEETHOVEN Lieder & Folksongs (Ian Bostridge)
We could do a lot worse in the Beethoven year than listen more to his songs. Too easily overlooked, they...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 08/2020
KERNIS Color Wheel
Giancarlo Guerrero and the Nashville Symphony heroically meet the challenges of two large orchestral works by Aaron Jay Kernis that...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 08/2020
JERUSALEM Mass in G
Despite the Spanish form of his name, Ignacio de Jerusalem (1707 69) was Italian, born Ignazio Gerusalemme in Lecce. Like...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2020
DANIELPOUR The Passion of Yeshua
Richard Danielpour is a composer of prolific accomplishment. He has contributed to the realms of concert and operatic music with...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 08/2020
ABEL The Cave of Wondrous Voice
The title of this new disc of chamber music by Mark Abel comes from a song-cycle set to texts by...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg 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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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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