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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David Potvin: Catharsis
The debut album by David Potvin – a young, prize-winning pianist based in Montreal – reveals a strong affinity for...
Reviewed by Stephen Cera in issue: 06/2024
Motion Studies
The Crossing, the sterling Philadelphia-based chamber choir, continue their exploration of social and environmental issues with ‘Motion Studies’, a vibrant...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 06/2024
ADAMS City Noir. Fearful Symmetries. Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance (Alsop)
You wouldn’t want to be going out at night in Los Angeles after listening to Adams’s City noir. Dark, menacing...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2024
TCHAIKOVSKY None but the Lonely Heart. Tchaikovsky songs staged by Christoph Loy
Necessity is the mother of invention. In the spring of 2021, Christof Loy was supposed to direct a new production...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2024
STANFORD Shamus O'Brien (Parry)
Remember when we used to be told that there was no significant British opera between Purcell and Britten? If there...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2024
ROSSINI Le Siège de Corinthe (Abbado)
Rossini’s Le siège de Corinthe, written for the Paris Opéra in 1826, was a game-changer in the history of opera....
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2024
PERGOLESI Livietta e Tracollo (Mealy)
Pergolesi’s two frothy intermezzi originated as light relief between the acts of opere serie (18th-century Neapolitan audiences demanded, and got,...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2024
MORAVEC The Shining (Schwarz)
I saw Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining sometime in the early 1980s, had nightmares for weeks afterwards and have seen...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2024
BUSONI Doktor Faust (Meister)
‘World premiere on video’ announces Dynamic’s cover of this release of Busoni’s magnificent but problematic operatic masterpiece. It’s a false...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2024
Vaughan Williams: A Birthday Garland (Roderick Williams)
A warm welcome to this absorbing recital, curated by Roderick Williams to take on tour with pianist Susie Allan to...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2024
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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