Review - David Oistrakh: The Warner Remastered Edition – The Complete Columbia & HMV Recordings
Rob Cowan on a revealing collection of recordings by the Russian violinist David Oistrakh
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WAGNER Ring Odyssey (Swensen)
However much Wagner’s uncut 18-hour Ring cycle is one of the ultimate epic immersion experiences, even staunch Wagnerites might be...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2024
VERDI Macbeth (Jordan)
Verdi’s operas have their share of sorcery but none embraces the supernatural like Macbeth, and few productions push it so...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2024
STRAUSS Die Fledermaus (Jurowski)
Say what you like about Barrie Kosky’s new production of Die Fledermaus, but it’s not short of Fledermice. Right from...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2024
RAMEAU Les Boréades (Vashegyi)
Les Boréades was rehearsed twice in April 1763 but then abandoned. Perhaps its libertarian plot fell foul of censors during...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2024
PUCCINI Love Affairs (Jonas Kaufmann)
Call it operatic speed dating as the tenor Jonas Kaufmann embarks on a whirlwind romance with six different sopranos. In...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 11/2024
MOZART Le nozze di Figaro (Pichon)
Remember the rubber shark in Martin Kušej’s doomed Idomeneo at the Royal Opera in 2014? Its carcass is served up...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2024
LEHÁR Schön ist die Welt (Burkert)
‘The world is beautiful, when luck brings you a fairy tale …’ Lehár’s post-Merry Widow career is studded with fascinating...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2024
Welcome Joy: A Celebration of Women’s Voices
The chemistry of mysticism, a partiality for orientalism and a career teaching at St Paul’s Girls’ School for over 30...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2024
Bruno de Sa: Mille affetti
Just when you thought falsettists couldn’t get any higher, along comes Bruno de Sá, pinging out high Cs and Ds...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2024
Benjamin Bernheim - Douce France: Melodies & Chansons
Here’s a very grown-up pleasure: Benjamin Bernheim and Carrie-Ann Matheson have put together a recital of French-language songs that are...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2024
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
Debussy in Context (Edited by Simon Trezise) | Book Review
In our current dark times we need Debussy as much as ever. And this book is a perfect way in if you...
Replay: The bel canto violin of Alfredo Campoli, plus Madeleine de Valmalète, Monique Haas, Emanuel Feuermann & Alfred Dubois
Rob Cowan’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
Box-set Round-up: November 2024 (Prêtre, Celibidache, Jansons)
Rob Cowan on the legacies of a trio of conductors in the music in which they excelled
Review - Wolfgang Sawallisch: The Warner Classics Edition - Complete Opera Recordings
Rob Cowan dives into Warner’s second volume of Wolfgang Sawallisch’s recordings
Cello: A Journey through Silence to Sound (by Kate Kennedy) | Book Review
It’s hard to think of another book about a specific instrument that goes quite as deep as this
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