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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BEETHOVEN; FRANCK Violin Sonatas transcribed for Cello
‘Up high it sounds nasal, and down low it grumbles’: Dvořák’s supposed comment about the solo cello came to mind...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 04/2017
ALWYN String Quartets Nos 10 - 13
Although William Alwyn’s extensive catalogue includes three ‘official’ string quartets dating from 1953, 1975 and 1984, his relationship with the...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2017
La storia di Orfeo
What a brilliant idea. Taking the best of three different Orpheus operas and weaving them together into a single composite,...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 04/2017
WAGNER Das Liebesverbot
Wagner’s second complete opera mostly switched allegiance to contemporary Italian (Donizetti, Rossini) and French (Auber, Hérold) models rather than German...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 04/2017
THOMMESSEN The Hermaphrodite
The Hermaphrodite is described as a ‘chamber opera in seven parts’, but that’s only part of the story. The work...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2017
ROSSINI Armida
The tale of Rinaldo the Crusader knight caught in the toils of the sorceress Armida had been popular with composers...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 04/2017
MOZART La Clemenza di Tito
By all accounts, Denis Podalydès’s updated production of Mozart’s late opera seria in the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, set in a...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2017
Sonya Yoncheva: Handel
In her absolute prime at 35, the Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva has been winning plaudits on both sides of the...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2017
HANDEL Theodora
It must be a world record for William Christie to have conducted four different commercial releases of Handel’s late masterpiece...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2017
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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