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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BARTÓK Cantata Profana & Transylvanian Dances KODÁLY Te Deum & Psalmus Hungaricus
Kodály’s Psalmus Hungaricus (1923) and Bartók’s Cantata profana (1930) have appeared together on disc twice before, I believe – by...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024
JS BACH Geistliche Lieder (Klaus Mertens)
This sympathetic collection brings together songs with devotional texts, some of which derive from Bach with certainty (included in the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2024
Forget This Night
The centrepiece here is Lili Boulanger’s emotionally turbulent 13-song cycle Clairières dans le ciel (‘Clearings in the sky’, 1914) on...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024
Le clavecin à Paris au XVIIIe siècle (Jos van Immerseel)
For most readers, Jos van Immerseel will be associated primarily with historical pianos, on which he has over the years...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2024
Thomas Trotter: A Celebration
There have been only seven Birmingham City Organists since the post was created in 1834, and just four in the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2024
SCHUBERT Piano Sonata. Moments musicaux (Adam Laloum)
Listen to Adam Laloum caress the gentle return of the main theme at the end of the A major Sonata’s...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 01/2024
Inon Barnatan: Rachmaninov Reflections
Five years ago, Ward Marston released substantial fragments from a demonstration of the Symphonic Dances given by Rachmaninov to help...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 01/2024
Sonya Bach: Mussorgsky
Sonya Bach studied with both Alicia de Larrocha and Lazar Berman, so it’s no surprise that in her hands A...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 01/2024
BRAHMS 'The Muse' (Nino Gvetadze)
Patrick Rucker thought very highly of Nino Gvetadze’s Schumann recording on this label (12/20), so I was intrigued to hear...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 01/2024
BONIS Complete Music for Solo Piano Vol 1 (Mengyiyi Chen)
This release is billed as Vol 1 of the complete music for solo piano of Mélanie Hélène Bonis, known as...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2024
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...
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
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
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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