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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ARENSKY Piano Trios
The Wilkomirski Trio are endorsed by the Wilkomirski Family Foundation, whose mission is to continue the artistic legacy of a...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2017
Perfido!
All three composers represented here were active in opera but these scenes and arias were composed as stand-alone works and...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 07/2017
Christiane Karg: Parfum
‘Like the aroma of a costly perfume that evaporates and leaves behind it just a hint of elegance’ is how...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2017
Pange Lingua - Music for Corpus Christi
The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, directed by Graham Ross, explore music for Corpus Christi through the hymns of Saint...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 07/2017
Excerpts from Falla El Amor brujo
‘A symbolic celebration of the 140th anniversary of the birth of Manuel de Falla’ is how Jordi Savall, in a...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2017
WEEKS Mala punica. Walled Garden
Brian Eno once argued that experimental composers are by instinct gardeners, who plant musical seeds that evolve into complex systems...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 07/2017
TELEMANN Reformations-Oratorium
Celebrations of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation are throwing up some interesting releases, including this curiosity: a world premiere...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2017
Donald Swann: Songs
This is the other, virtually unknown side of Donald Swann, remembered so fondly for his partnership with Michael Flanders. Here...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2017
SCHUBERT Die Schöne Müllerin (Bo Skovhus)
Released 20 years on from his first recording of the cycle, Bo Skovhus’s new Schöne Müllerin could hardly be more...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2017
PETTER Ablaze With Light
When the composer William Petter died in 2016 he was just 34 years old. This first collection of his choral...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan 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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