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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Small Storms: Short Pieces by Martinů
Martinů’s three cello sonatas were preceded by a clutch of suites and movements written in Paris (mostly) in 1930-31. The...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2017
RACHMANINOV Vespers
Since Gloriæ Dei Cantores are one of North America’s finest non-professional choirs with at least 50 CDs to their credit,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2017
William Appling: JOPLIN Complete Rags, Waltzes and Marches
William Appling (1932-2008) was a highly respected teacher and superb choral director who influenced many lives. He discovered Scott Joplin’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2017
CHILDS Heaven to Clear When Day Did Close
There is cool in American maverick music like Lou Harrison, who couldn’t resist the mainstream, and then there is cool...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 06/2017
The Italian Job
My heart skipped a beat when this new offering from La Serenissima and Adrian Chandler landed on my desk, such...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2017
ELGAR Cello Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY Variations on a Rococo Theme
A most unusual account of the Elgar Concerto, one that’s both musically gripping and recorded at relatively close quarters. The...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2017
CLEMENTI Symphonies Nos 1 - 4
Muzio Clementi did his posthumous reputation no favours by turning out reams of autopilot sonatinas for schoolroom use. Mozart’s withering...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2017
MACMILLAN Stabat Mater
In their separate but extremely effusive booklet essays, both Harry Christophers and the work’s dedicatee, John Studzinski, describe James MacMillan’s...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2017
Bologna 1666
Why ‘Bologna 1666’? Well, thankfully not because there was a fire there. But the date is a touch misleading, since...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2017
Bologna 1666
Why ‘Bologna 1666’? Well, thankfully not because there was a fire there. But the date is a touch misleading, since...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2017
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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