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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BRUCKNER Symphony No 3 WAGNER Tannhäuser Overture
This first instalment of a new Bruckner series by Andris Nelsons and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra for DG couples the...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2017
ADAMS; KORNGOLD Violin Concertos
Ilya Gringolts plays with a ferocity that – in tandem with taut rhythmic control – adroitly avoids even the slightest...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 07/2017
The Lightning Fields
Jason Bergman’s adventurous recital of trumpet music written or revised since 2003, mostly premiere recordings, ranges from Richard Peaslee’s sad,...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 07/2017
MOZART Chamber music for strings, oboe and piano
Mozart made it possible for musicians of many instrumental stripes to bask in his artistic genius. On this new CD,...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 07/2017
Cuatro Corridos – A Chamber Opera
The American soprano Susan Narucki was so horrified by the human trafficking rampant on the border between the United States...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 07
KING Free Palestine, Book 1
Like its title, John King’s extended string quartet Free Palestine (2013 14; by my calculation the 22nd he has written)...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2017
KANDER Hermestänze. Solo Sonata. A Garden’s Time Piece
All three of Susan Kander’s works on this new MSR Classics release have personal ties, even beyond the fact that...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 07/2017
DE RITIS Pop Concerto
Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s first CD devoted to Anthony Paul De Ritis (b1968) was warmly received in these pages (10/12)....
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2017
BOYKAN Rites of Passage
Martin Boykan (b1931), a native of New York City, is one of the US’s most distinguished composers. A pupil of...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2017
BOLCOM Piano Rags
William Bolcom has proved his compositional versatility in virtually every genre you can name. As a masterly pianist, he has...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 07/2017
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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