Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
Peter Quantrill explores a range of documentaries and concerts from Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel...
Like his traversals of the English and French Suites, Richard Egarr’s Bach Partitas largely convey a rhythmic focus that underlines...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2017
The Polish pianist Rafał Blechacz, particularly lauded for his Chopin interpretations, now turns to Bach, a composer with whom he...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2017
After two albums of penitential motets and two Gramophone Early Music Award nominations, Contrapunctus swap shrouds for swaddling clothes in...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2017
It’s an emotive concept – a queen pregnant with the hope of a nation, only to have it shrink away...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2017
This surprisingly impassioned selection of anonymous motets from a Venetian publication Musica quinque vocum motteta materna lingua vocata (1543) has...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 05/2017
Britain’s tradition of cathedral music-making is one of its greatest cultural legacies. This new recording from Andrew Carwood and St...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2017
Previous releases from the American tenor Nicholas Phan include a couple of Britten discs, both well reviewed in these pages...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2017
The SWR Vocal Ensemble’s series of country-themed discs continues but now without Hänssler Classic; this latest disc is on SWR’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2017
Five hundred years ago Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, changing...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 05/2017
The premise of this intriguing project makes a certain intuitive sense. Stravinsky’s Mass was composed as a response to Machaut’s,...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2017
Peter Quantrill explores a range of documentaries and concerts from Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel...
Jed Distler hails a desirable box-set documenting the maestro’s 18-year tenure in Ohio
Jeremy Nicholas browses through two collections of keyboard treasures
Speakers with onboard amplification make plenty of sense if you want high performance without all...
‘This is an altogether absorbing volume, as valuable and enlightening as it is original and...
This flagship player eschews the technology of the company’s other models for a clean sheet...
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