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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Occhi Turchini: Songs from Calabria
Franco Pavan’s recent forays into the exciting world of folk/early music with Laboratorio ’600 are stylish and exciting. His combination...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 09/2016
Many Are The Wonders
This is ORA’s third release in less than 18 months – a breathless pace that conductor-founder Suzi Digby plans to...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2017
Like as the Hart
A collection of settings of Psalm 42 in various translations curated by Catherine Alette Clover, author of New College-themed novel...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2017
Gundula Janowitz: The Last Recital - in memoriam Maria Callas
Gundula Janowitz officially retired from the stage in 1990 and, according to most accounts, gave occasional recitals until around the...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2017
Kurt Weill Songs
How do you sing Kurt Weill? There is, I suspect, ultimately no one answer. As Dagmar Pecková points out in...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2017
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Scott of the Antarctic
Vaughan Williams must have been gratified by the positive reaction to his score for Scott of the Antarctic. The film...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 09/2017
SZYMANOWSKI Songs
This programme presents songs by Szymanowski covering the half-decade between 1900 and 1905. They are youthful works, then, which point...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2017
SVIRIDOV Russia Cast Adrift
This recording presents an orchestration of Sviridov’s song-cycle on verses by Yesenin, Russia Cast Adrift (which Hvorostovsky has already recorded...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 09/2017
STRAUSS Through Life and Love
In a note in the booklet to her debut album, Louise Alder talks about her ‘personal passionate love affair’ with...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2017
SCHUBERT Schwanengesang. Klavierstück D946 No 2
A couple of years ago Stephan Genz and Michel Dalberto released a Winterreise that was welcomed in these pages by...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2017
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
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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