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
Ever since they formed nearly two decades ago, Brooklyn Rider have been reimagining the string quartet’s potential both in their...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 11/2023
Given the way Daniele Gatti romanticises Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring (Sony, A/13; RCO Live, 4/18), you wouldn’t peg him...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: AW23
The domestic, small-scale associations of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with a girls’ school in Chelsea cling persistently to the composer’s...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW23
'Tetelman is the real deal’ was how I concluded my review of the Chilean-American tenor’s debut album last year (10/22)....
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW23
With the great successes of Manon and Werther behind him, Jules Massenet sought creative renewal in Ariane (1906), a durable,...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW23
And still they come, the Covid projects. Why record them? It’s understandable that during the period of social distancing, the...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW23
There aren’t many operatic scores with the consistent beauty, embrace, virility and honesty of Königskinder that remain effectively outside the...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW23
This is a rarity. With 174 pieces of two-voice music, the Winchester Troper is by far the world’s earliest substantial...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: AW23
Regensburg-born tenor Richard Resch’s debut album – a selection of early Baroque cantatas from north Germany – received a warm...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW23
There are not many tenors who have recorded discs of Russian romances, so this new Pentatone release of Tchaikovsky and...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW23
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’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
Rob Cowan on the legacies of a trio of conductors in the music in which they excelled
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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