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
In returning to a Rachmaninov symphony he recorded previously with the Royal Philharmonic (Virgin, 5/90 – nla), Andrew Litton goes...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 11/2015
This is the fourth in Järvi’s ‘Sound Project’ series, and the first dedicated to a single composer. Arvo Pärt, in...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2015
This is big-band Offenbach on modern instruments dealing freely with both ensemble sizes and editions, no authentic honeymoon. But Chandos’s...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 11/2015
This is, finally, the memorial that all of us who were admirers of Steve Martland’s music have been waiting for....
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2015
The second disc in Christoph Eschenbach’s Hindemith series with the NDR Sinfonieorchester brings together the works that effectively marked the...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2015
Having now heard all six of the second set of ‘London’ Symphonies in this series by Bruno Weil, I have...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2015
Rebecca Miller has already proved her credentials at the more angsty end of the 18th-century symphony with her Editor’s Choice...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2015
If you don’t want to know about the scientific plotting behind this music, look away now (skip to the next...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2015
Alice Coote, partnered with exquisite grace and scrupulous care by Mark Elder and the Hallé, gives us a Sea Pictures...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 11/2015
Sebastian Klinger – first solo cellist of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – has already committed several chamber and instrumental...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 11/2015
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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