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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GERVAIS Hypermnestre (Vashegyi)
If Stephen Fry is planning a third volume of Greek legends, to follow Mythos and Heroes, he might balk at...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2019
FARINELLI Ann Hallenberg. Cecilia Bartoli
What would one give to time travel and hear the 18th century’s most deified, mythified castrato, who in London provoked...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 12/2019
Jonas Kaufmann: Wien
If you’re watching the calories, stop reading now. This evocative collection of Viennese sweetmeats, of wine, women, song and Sachertorte,...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2019
A Spanish Nativity
Released in time for Christmas, Stile Antico’s latest offering explores the Spanish Golden Age from Morales to Victoria. The centrepiece...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2019
Baroque Gender Stories (Vivica Genaux; Lawrence Zazzo)
Early 18th-century Italian opera companies often cast female voices in male roles, and sometimes castratos took female roles according to...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2019
WOHLHAUSER L’amour est un duperie – l’amour n’est pas une symbiose
His may be an unfamiliar name but the Swiss composer René Wohlhauser (b1954) has gained a wide reputation for his...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 12/2019
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Song of Love; Time and Space
Early in his career Ralph Vaughan Williams was much taken with Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s 1881 collection of 100 sonnets, The...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2019
STROZZI "Virtuosa of Venice" (Fieri Consort)
Barbara Strozzi (1619 77) published eight collections of chamber vocal music – almost all secular and most of them extant...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 12/2019
SCHÜTZ The Christmas Story
This attractive all-Schütz programme places his Christmas Story alongside other seasonal German- and Latin-texted works, culminating in the very Venetian-sounding...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 12/2019
SCHUMANN Myrthen (Christian Gerhaher)
For the second volume of their Schumann project, Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber turn to Myrthen, the wonderful wedding present...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 12/2019
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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