Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
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FALLA El Sombrero de Tres Picos. El Amor Brujo (Heras-Casado)
El sombrero de tres picos was first performed by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes at London’s Alhambra Theatre in the summer of...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2019
PURCELL King Arthur (McCreesh)
The Gabrieli Consort & Players have been developing ideas about King Arthur (or The British Worthy) for nearly a quarter...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2019
Preach Sister, Preach
Katherine Jolly is a rather good operatic and recital soprano, teacher – variously at St Louis and Indiana Universities and...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2019
Sirius Quartet: Playing on the Edge
On the evidence of their playing on this fascinating disc from Navona, the Sirius Quartet are a fine, adaptable ensemble,...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2019
REALE Children's Palace
Paul Reale (b1943 in New Jersey) studied at Columbia in the 1960s with Chou Wen chung (with whom he had...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2019
MEYER Ring Out
In each of Jessica Meyer’s differently configured works from the last five years, knife-edge anticipation opens on to unexpected, often...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2019
KARCHIN Jane Eyre
In 2016 at Hunter College, New York, the Center for Contemporary Opera staged the world premiere of Jane Eyre, in...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 11/2019
WEBER Euryanthe (Trinks. Stiedry)
Reviews of Weber’s follow-up to Der Freischütz tend to begin with the listener, enchanted all over again by the score’s...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2019
Ildar Abdrazakov: Verdi
Albums devoted to the bass voice aren’t all that common, fewer yet a bass recital devoted to one composer. The...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 11/2019
STANFORD The Travelling Companion (Purser)
This is a landmark: the first full-length commercial recording of any of Stanford’s nine completed operas. It’s all the more...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2019
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
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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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