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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WEBER Der Freischütz (Mazzola)
Content warning: this Freischütz contains entirely rewritten dialogue, added music, cut music, an additional character, reorderings and general scenes of...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 01/2025
VERDI Ernani (Mazzola)
Verdi’s Ernani? Or the Brad Pitt movie Fight Club? This new DVD sounds like the former but looks like the...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2025
BOITO Nerone (Cilluffo)
Verdi’s librettist on Otello and Falstaff, Arrigo Boito was also a noted composer. His most famous work, Mefistofele, is still...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2025
BIZET Carmen (Glassberg)
Étienne Jardin, director of research for Palazzetto Bru Zane, acknowledges that their latest endeavour proved controversial. ‘In 2023, this historical...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 01/2025
BELLINI Norma (Fiore)
Released by Marina Rebeka’s own label Prima Classic, this is the first studio recording of Norma to appear in over...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2025
Voices of Thunder
The installation of a new pipe organ, like any long-awaited new arrival, is always best marked with some kind of...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2025
A New Spirit
The 23-strong Caritas Chamber Choir was founded in 2011 and is based in East Kent. The choir’s seventh CD release...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2025
Les musiques de Molière
William Christie explores the essential function that music had in Molière’s comedies, although this is not exactly a ‘new’ album...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2025
A Monk's Life
This is a superb programme mining a rich vein of post-Reformation music from German-speaking countries, all sung with the characteristic...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 01/2025
Lucrezia: Portraits of a Woman
These four gripping Baroque cantatas depict the anguish, fury and suicide of Lucrezia after her rape by Sextus Tarquinius (son...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2025
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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