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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Sybarite5: Live from New York
For those unfamiliar with Sybarite5, they are a cutting-edge string quintet comprising the traditional quartet line-up plus double bass. Based...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2020
Saint Louis Premieres
The Saint Louis Chamber Chorus stand out for many reasons, among them a mellifluous approach to ensemble-singing that benefits everything...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 07/2020
And That One Too (Sandbox Percussion)
Sandbox Percussion, an ensemble based in New York, have been expanding the repertoire for their vast array of instruments since...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 07/2020
MONK Memory Game
Meredith Monk’s Memory Game (2016-17) can be viewed as one single composition (not unlike a 1980s concept album), a pair...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2020
MARTINŮ Openings
Has there ever been a composer who, with a simple song (or set of them), communicated the sheer joy of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2020
FLOYD Prince of Players (Boggs)
The full-orchestral version of Carlisle Floyd’s Prince of Players, premiered in a chamber version at the Houston Grand Opera in...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 07/2020
Isabel Bayrakdarian: The Other Cleopatra
Isabel Bayrakdarian’s superb recital with Tafelmusik (CBC, 7/05) presented key moments for the famous Egyptian Cleopatra by Handel, Mattheson, Hasse...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2020
WEBER Der Freischütz (Netopil)
With Janowski’s new recording of this opera (Pentatone, 2/20) and the Vienna Euryanthe on both CD and DVD (Capriccio, 11/19;...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2020
VERDI Otello (Pappano)
Two years after the DVD/Blu-ray release of Jonas Kaufmann’s first Otello in the theatre (A/18), here is a full studio...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2020
VERDI Nabucco (Ciampa)
The Verdi Festival in Parma produced an austere and compelling production of Il trovatore in 2018 (in the rare French...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 07/2020
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
Which are the right active loudspeakers for you?
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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