Online classical concerts & events to enjoy this month (January 2025)
Peter Quantrill explores a range of documentaries and concerts from Sir Antonio Pappano, Daniel...
Pascal Amoyel, the enigmatic French pianist whose explorations of Chopin include a set of Nocturnes (Calliope, 2004) and last year’s...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 07/2016
From the disc’s title we must assume that this is Imogen Cooper’s idiosyncratic (perhaps contentious?) take on a composer with...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 07/2016
I first became aware of Pascal Dubreuil through his recording of Bach’s English Suites, which Lindsay Kemp praised with reservations...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2016
‘A singer of great excellence. His voice was sound, male, powerful and extensive. His tones were natural and he had...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 07/2016
It’s not quite true that this is the ‘World Premiere Recording’ of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s über-verismo hit of 1911, as Naxos’s...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 07/2016
Plácido Domingo could put it no better than Francesco Foscari, the decrepit and embittered Doge. ‘So this is the vile...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 07/2016
Orfeo here rounds up once more a production’s cast long known to collectors in both sound (numerous dealer labels) and...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 07/2016
The serenata La gloria di Primavera (1716) was commissioned by the Neapolitan Duke Nicola Gaetani dell’Aquila d’Aragona for his wife...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2016
One ring to rule them all: a giant metallic ring dominates the set of this new production of Faust from...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 07/2016
Les Surprises was co-founded by Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas in 2010. In what has become a French tradition, the group...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2016
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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