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 year the pianist Nelson Goerner has been more active than usual on behalf of Chopin. In October he served...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 01/2016
Percussionist Matthias Kaul comes at Cage from a background in rock and jazz drumming, and it shows in his sense...
Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 01/2016
This is a thoroughly imaginative pairing of John Cage and Henry Cowell, especially coming after Cowell’s impressive showing as Composer...
Reviewed by Peter Dickinson in issue: 01/2016
Korean-born Sunwook Kim came to prominence in 2006 at the age of 18, when he won the Leeds International Competition....
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2016
What a good title for this selection of famous 19th-century encores. The ‘Lady Harmsworth’ in question is a 1703 masterpiece...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2016
As far as Armenians are concerned, music is inextricably bound up with loss. Every year, they gather to pay respects...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 01/2016
Two discs from two Danish ensembles coincide to chart the history of the piano trio in the country from its...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2016
Isidora Žebeljan (b1967) grew up in a rural part of Serbia near the Carpathian mountains, where folk music criss-crossed between...
Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 01/2016
Pamela Thorby’s new two-disc set looks at first glance pretty hardcore: one disc of sonatas with continuo and a second...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 01/2016
He was unfashionable before anyone knew who he was. As Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen were advancing their arguments about...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 01/2016
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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