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
'This is a disc that arguably should never have been made.’ That’s Red Priest themselves writing in the booklet accompanying...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2015
Grieg’s 1882/83 Cello Sonata was premiered by the composer accompanying Friedrich Grützmacher (the cellist who made up Boccherini concertos). It...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 05/2015
Now in his mid-thirties, David Gorton is a composer working in the more radical domain of post-war British music. This...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2015
Laura Buruiana and Alexandra Silocea, who both come from Romania, make a formidable duo, playing with immense assurance, verve and...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 05/2015
Trevor Pinnock and the Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble – who have recorded symphonies by Mahler and Bruckner in...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 05/2015
After their splendid Mendelssohn recording (11/14), the Gould Trio turn to a very different programme. The MacMillan works are strongly...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 05/2015
The Ricercar Consort’s recording activities in recent years have focused mainly on sacred music for voices and instruments, so it...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 05/2015
Should it always be a viola da gamba of six or seven gut and metal wound strings, tuned in fourths...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 05/2015
This latest instalment in Regent’s trawl through the organs of English cathedrals takes us to Peterborough. Here an 1894 William...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 05/2015
The four symphonies of the Op 13 set originated in 1872. Nowadays we hear them – 24 movements in all...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2015
Rob Cowan on a revealing collection of recordings by the Russian violinist David Oistrakh
In our current dark times we need Debussy as much as ever. And this book is a perfect way in if you...
Rob Cowan on the legacies of a trio of conductors in the music in which they excelled
Rob Cowan’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
Rob Cowan dives into Warner’s second volume of Wolfgang Sawallisch’s recordings
It’s hard to think of another book about a specific instrument that goes quite as deep as this
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