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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In this typically provocative compilation, ECM producer Manfred Eicher doesn’t simply present a sequence of three separate, well-contrasted compositions: rather,...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 10/2019
The Tchaikovsky Project (Complete)
Now we have the complete portrait, as it were, of Tchaikovsky through the eyes of Semyon Bychkov, many of the...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2019
Verbier Festival: 25th Anniversary Concert
The home viewer of this Rheingold-length gala enjoys certain advantages over the blinged-up patrons who packed the plastic hothouse of...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2019
Bach & Co
If you regard yourself as a fairly seasoned and knowledgeable listener of Baroque music, then you may find the premise...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2019
20th Century Harpsichord Concertos (Vinikour)
If you’re looking for compelling contemporary harpsichord concertos beyond the usual suspects (Falla, Poulenc, Martin≤) in outstanding, superbly engineered performances,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2019
TABAKOV Symphony No 5. Concerto for Double Bass
Outside his native Bulgaria, Emil Tabakov (b1947) is perhaps best known for his recordings with the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra in...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2019
STANFORD A Song of Agincourt. Fairy Day
Completed in December 1903, Stanford’s impressive Overture in the Style of a Tragedy had to wait nearly 107 years for...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2019
MYASKOVSKY Symphonies Nos 1 & 13 (Rudin)
Alexander Rudin, a distinguished exponent of Myaskovsky’s Cello Concerto and his sonatas for the same instrument (Cello Classics), is also...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2019
MAHLER Symphony No 1 (Vänskä)
It may well be that more of the score is audible here than ever before. What’s lacking is less easily...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 10/2019
Le fil d’Ariane
On paper, this album really shouldn’t work: the concerti grossi of the Italian Baroque composer Pietro Antonio Locatelli interspersed with...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 10/2019
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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