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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Love's Signature
The American composer Juliana Hall has devoted herself to the art song for nearly three decades. Her sensitivity to words...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 05/2017
Christopher Houlihan Plays Bach
Christopher Houlihan commences BWV542’s Fantasia with a delightful introductory flourish, and characterises the rippling fireworks and introspective interludes with strikingly...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2017
Russian Masters
Anyone planning an all-Russian cello recital has a wonderfully rich menu to choose from. And with over 80 minutes of...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2017
Nordsending
Cellist Jakob Kullberg’s immersion in the works of Per Nørgård has seen him enlist his trio colleagues for this assembly...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2017
4 Cities
Anyone familiar with the alluring quasi-minimalist music of the Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt could easily draw parallels between Holt’s...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2017
Preghiera
It would be very easy for Daniil Trifonov, only just 26 and with the world at his feet, to spend...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2017
PROKOFIEV Violin Sonatas Nos 1 & 2
The Prokofiev violin repertoire has been very fruitfully tapped in recent times, and this new release of the two sonatas...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 05/2017
HAYDN; SCHUBERT String Quartets
On the face it these two works, composed at either end of the string quartet’s golden age, make unlikely bedfellows....
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 05/2017
Tasmin Little plays Franck, Szymanowski, and Fauré
It occurred to me while listening to this sensitively planned programme that the vintage violinist who Tasmin Little most reminds...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 05/2017
CLARKE A Different Game
As Axel Klein’s introductory note suggests, Irish new music is a significant yet relatively unknown facet of the European scene...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse 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
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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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