Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
Peter Quantrill explores a range of documentaries and concerts from Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel...
Another month, another attempt to reconcile the musical tradition of the Latin concert Mass with an age hungry for narrative extras or postmodernist...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW17
The release of Robin Ticciati’s first disc with the DSO Berlin coincides with the start of his tenure as the orchestra’s music director....
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: AW17
In the hands of a master, watercolour can be a most expressive medium, capturing the fragility of a scene or...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW17
This release, entitled ‘Espressione … From Bolzano to San Marino’, constitutes a travelogue, or perhaps a ‘competition diary’. In August of 2016, Łukasz...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW17
A diverse grouping of first sonatas by American composers encompassed Cecile Licad’s Anthology of American Piano Music, Vol 1 (A/16); Vol 2 is given...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW17
Martin Jones’s seemingly insatiable appetite for mining the piano repertoire en masse continues with a second CD devoted to virtuoso transcriptions...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW17
Biographical sketches of Anton Urspruch (1850-1907), a professor at the Hoch and Raff Conservatories in Frankfurt, make much of his association...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW17
This is an altogether impressive, accomplished and rewarding release, a delight to listen to from both the sound and performance points of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW17
In Schubert’s C minor Impromptu, Mona Asuka’s evenly balanced opening G natural octaves and plaintive shaping of the single-line phrase are offset by...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW17
Godowsky’s 53 Studies on Chopin’s Études (or 54 or 55 depending on whether you include different ossias in numbering them) present a formidable challenge...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW17
Peter Quantrill explores a range of documentaries and concerts from Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel...
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
Speakers with onboard amplification make plenty of sense if you want high performance without all...
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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