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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Karim Said plays Beethoven, Mozart, Schoenberg, Webern
As in his previous Rubicon release (4/19), Karim Said again explores connections between teachers and disciples, with Mozart and Beethoven...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2024
Peter Donohoe plays Granados & Albéniz
Decades of gestation and seasoning inform Peter Donohoe’s excellently engineered readings of Albéniz’s Iberia Books 1 and 2 and the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2024
Nexus: New Works for Trumpet and Piano
Had Charles Darwin used musical instruments to back up his theory of evolution, he may well have looked to the...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 08/2024
The Naming of Birds: British Wind Quintets
The concept behind this intriguing, delightfully played programme is the development of the British wind quintet decade by decade from...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024
The Mandolin in London
After a wide-ranging exploration, over a number of consistently fascinating releases, of the baroque mandolin in Italy (with a brief...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 08/2024
Home: American String Quartets
The Miró Quartet’s new album, ‘Home’, offers a discourse on the themes thrown up by the title: a nation’s people...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2024
Avec elles: Arrieu, Bonis, Borel, Chaminade, Debussy, Poulenc
The French have long been in an intimate relationship with the flute. Think of that siren call languorously opening Debussy’s...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2024
WEINBERG String Quartets Vol 4 (Arcadia Quartet)
In this fourth instalment of Weinberg string quartets, the Arcadia Quartet tellingly juxtapose one of his greatest works with two...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2024
SORABJI Vocal and Chamber Works
His output may be dominated by large-scale works for piano but Kaikhosru Sorabji wrote vocal and chamber pieces of relative...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2024
SENFTER Chamber Music
When reviewing Kilian Herold and the Armida Quartet’s recording of Johanna Senfter’s fine Clarinet Quintet, Richard Whitehouse hoped ‘that more...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024
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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