Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
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DEBUSSY La Boîte à joujoux. Khamma. Jeux
>‘The characters of this ballet are like moths in the night, like children who do not know the rules of...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2017
BORENSTEIN Violin Concerto
Although his music has attracted significant premieres and several recordings, this is the highest-profile disc yet devoted to the British-French-Israeli composer...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2017
Silence and Music
If you look back through the Gabrieli Consort’s discography you can see a new trend emerging. Among the large-scale works...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2017
MACHAUT Nostre Dame
Nowadays it is rare for recordings of early polyphony to span Machaut, Victoria and everything in between. The Vienna Vocal Consort are...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2017
Handel Goes Wild
You could be forgiven if you failed to recognise the overture to Handel’s Alcina behind the jazz piano breaks, plucked bass and klezmer...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2017
The Ear of the Huguenots
The first main virtue of this issue is that nothing here seems to have been recorded before, apart from Palestrina’s Mass...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 10/2017
Crazy Girl Crazy
One of music’s great risk-takers, Barbara Hannigan goes out on a limb with ‘Crazy Girl Crazy’, her debut album as...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2017
The Sunlight on the Garden: The Songs of Stephen Wilkinson
Stephen Wilkinson, who turned 98 this spring, is probably best known as the conductor who led the BBC Northern Singers from 1954...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 10/2017
SVIRIDOV Russia Adrift
Sviridov’s Russia Adrift (also translated as Russia Cast Adrift – the Russian is Otchalivshaya Rus’; either will work) is becoming something of...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 10/2017
RISTORI Cantatas for Soprano
Giovanni Alberto Ristori (c1692-1753) came to prominence composing operas, such as a setting of Orlando furioso (1713) produced in Venice...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2017
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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