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
Handel organ concertos may not be what you associate with the gilded fittings of the Vienna Musikverein, though apparently performances...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2021
Nico Muhly and Philip Glass go back a long way. There’s a scene in Scott Hicks’s 2007 documentary on Philip...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2021
This Oehms two-disc set from the pianist Pascal Rogé, who turned 70 this spring, combines the Ravel G major and...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2021
What a difference a decade makes. Over recent years I’ve become so used to Nicola Benedetti’s concerto releases covering repertoire...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2021
We’ll get to the cello concerto later because the main event here is Water Atlas, the final part of Sebastian...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 09/2021
One of the recent developments in the history of the Carl Nielsen International Music Competition is that the winners of...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 09/2021
Earlier this year, Francisco Coll appeared as composer/conductor on an Alpha album featuring Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Sol Gabetta and the chamber...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2021
Emmanuel Despax offers a heartfelt tribute to his recording team and fellow musicians in this new recording of Brahms’s First...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 09/2021
First let me pose a question regarding the function of oddball concerto cadenzas, when and where to use them. Outstretching,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2021
A monodrama, a ballet and a mini-opera. Three faces of Samuel Barber ‘in camera’. One might expect a unique offering...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2021
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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