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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PURCELL Royal Welcome Songs for King James II
From the choral anthems of the Field of the Cloth of Gold to Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony, the role of music...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 10/2017
Dear Evan Hansen
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul will, of course, forever be best known as the composers of La La Land and in...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2017
MONTEVERDI Vespers (Dunedin Consort)
Anyone expecting a John Butt Monteverdi Vespers to be in the liturgical reconstruction mould of Andrew Parrott (or indeed Butt’s own...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2017
MESSIAEN Poèmes pour Mi. Trois petites liturgies de la Présence Divine
It’s becoming clear that Ludovic Morlot likes to do things his own way. His recent disc of Ives’s New England...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2017
G BUSH; HOROVITZ Songs
That Geoffrey Bush (1920‑98) possessed a very real gift for word-setting is evident throughout this most welcome selection of his songs,...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2017
DOWLAND Seven Tears BENJAMIN Upon Silence
French viol consort Sit Fast (named after a piece by Christopher Tye) have shown a liking for cycles in their two recordings...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2017
Entrez, le Diable!
It’s almost unfathomable that a cello could provoke a scandal, but this appears to have been in the case in the 1730s...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2017
Alma española
Isabel Leonard and Sharon Isbin illuminate Spanish art songs in orbit around Lorca and Falla by mixing popular favourites and surprising discoveries...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2017
Dark Queen Mantra
As Pwyll ap Siôn noted in his 80th-birthday feature on the composer (A/15), there is more to Terry Riley than...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2017
LAITMAN The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter has inspired several operas, including rarely performed versions with music by Walter Damrosch, Fredric Kroll...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg 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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