Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
Peter Quantrill explores a range of documentaries and concerts from Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel...
That this is the fourth volume of Scarlatti sonatas by Pierre Hantaï reminds us that he is no newcomer to...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW16
Chopin is far and away the most popular among his coevals, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Liszt, and much of his music...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: AW16
Any quartet that wins a Grammy for a disc of Ligeti quartets gets my attention, and the Boston-based Parker Quartet...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW16
This superb new release in BIS’s series devoted to Brett Dean takes its name of the longest piece in the...
Reviewed in issue AW16
In contrast with the first instalment of Chandos’s series of Copland’s orchestral music (3/16), which focused on the popular ballets,...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: AW16
Were someone to ask me to suggest a disc to introduce them to the violin, I might well steer them...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW16
The booklet-note for this release makes some bold claims regarding Kent Nagano’s account of Eine Alpensinfonie with his Gothenburg orchestra....
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW16
‘Vengeance is mine, I shall repay’ is grimly inscribed on the opening page of Rachmaninov’s First Symphony. Each movement opens...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW16
Kevin Puts’s music has an optimism and directness that, at least on its surface, harks back to mid-century American composers...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW16
Here is the second release in James Gaffigan’s projected Prokofiev symphony cycle, a series that suddenly finds itself one among...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW16
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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