Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
Peter Quantrill explores a range of documentaries and concerts from Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel...
Volume 3 of the ARC Ensemble’s Music in Exile series profiles Szymon Laks, who moved to Paris from Warsaw in...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2017
The 40-year-old Haydn seems to have conceived his Op 20 quartets as a showcase for his newly won technical and...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 09/2017
When Francis Drake set sail in 1577 to circumnavigate the globe, he took with him four violists and sundry other...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2017
‘Frankly no good’: Poulenc’s verdict on his only Violin Sonata was damning, but there’s no reason why we have to...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2017
This 1993 recording of Morton Feldman’s cello-and-piano piece Patterns in a Chromatic Field (1981) is a pioneering document, a recording...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 09/2017
This is a comprehensive collection of Fauré’s ‘official’ music for cello and piano – which is to say, it excludes...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2017
The concertos of the Finnish-Swedish clarinettist Bernhard Henrik Crusell (1775 1838) come around fairly often; less so his chamber works....
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 09/2017
Hot on the heels of the superb Erato recording with the Capuçon brothers et al comes this energetic account of...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2017
‘Sonatas for Fortepiano and Violin’ declares the cover of this latest release in Ian Watson and Susanna Ogata’s cycle of...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2017
This is a major release. Last year I heard The Heath Quartet play Bartók’s Third Quartet in concert, and was...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2017
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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