Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
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VIVALDI The Four Seasons JIRÁNEK Violin Concerto
It’s a funny thing that, while we may bang on about how difficult it is to release a really distinctive...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 02/2017
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS The Lark Ascending (Jennifer Pike)
Top billing on Naxos’s cover goes to The Lark Ascending but the main interest for RVW aficionados surrounds the first...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 02/2017
TISHCHENKO Symphony No 8. Concerto for Violin and Piano
Boris Tishchenko’s last numbered symphony, composed two years before his death in 2010 (a ninth was left unfinished), is a...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2017
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies Nos 4-6
In a foreword to the booklet-notes for this new BIS release, superstar trombonist and composer turned conductor Christian Lindberg writes...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2017
STRAVINSKY The Firebird NIKOLAEV The Sinewaveland
Ludovic Morlot has garnered great reviews with the Seattle Symphony and it’s clear to hear why in a fine, purposeful...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2017
SMETANA Má Vlast
In a market crammed with recordings of Má vlast – several as historically significant as they are musically penetrating –...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 02/2017
SHOSTAKOVICH; TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concertos
Although not trumpeted anywhere on the sleeve, the booklet-notes claim Linus Roth’s recording as ‘the original echt Tchaikovsky version’ of...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2017
SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2
Of this pairing of Shostakovich’s two violin concertos, it is Frank Peter Zimmermann’s performance of the First which will raise...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2017
SCHUMANN Cello Concerto. Symphony No 2
The album’s title implies some form of pioneering research but in fact indicates that Jan Vogler, Intendant of the Dresden...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 02/2017
SCHULHOFF Forbidden Music
Erwin Schulhoff’s Second Piano Concerto of 1923 is a strange beast, opening among chiming solo figurations, with woodwinds intoning above...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 02/2017
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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