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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American Moments
There are some combinations on ‘American Moments’ that feel more like conflicts than contrasts. Initial appearances suggest it is a...
Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2017
BABELL Concertos Op 3
‘A great player at a small expense…Mr Babel…at once gratifies idleness and vanity’ is what the music historian Charles Burney...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2017
HAYDN Symphony No 85 'La Reine'
This is the first disc in what promises to be a recording of all six of Haydn’s ‘Paris’ Symphonies, coupled...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2017
La Harp Reine
'La Reine Harpe’ runs the disc’s title, the queen in question being Marie Antoinette, who did for the for harp...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2017
Leo Borchard: Telefunken Recordings 1933-35
It’s all about timing. Eighteen months after the Berliner Philharmoniker elected the second Russian-born Chief Conductor in its 135-year history,...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2017
WEINBERG Symphony No 17
The last years of Stalin’s rule were touch-and-go for all Soviet creative artists, fearful as they were of a re-run...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2017
Lucie Horsch plays Vivaldi
It was big news earlier this year when Decca Classics signed Dutch teenager Lucie Horsch as its first-ever recorder player....
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2017
TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker
The physical presentation of this Oehms Classics release in a standard slim jewel case isn’t going to win any prizes....
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2017
TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No1. Nutcracker Suite
Alexandra Dariescu has been garnering accolades for the past 10 years or so, and from this debut concerto disc I...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2017
STRAUSS Elektra; Rosenkavalier - Suites
Given that the orchestra could be described as one of the key characters in Strauss’s Elektra, it is surprising that...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2017
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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