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
One would have to travel very far to find an album of British a cappella (mostly) music as beautifully sung...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2023
In his booklet note for this excellent new recording of Die schöne Müllerin, Konstantin Krimmel muses on the suicide figures...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2023
This is important. Oklahoma! was a big moment – perhaps the big moment – in musical theatre’s ‘coming of age’....
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/2023
To whichever composer Marc-André Hamelin turns his (amazing) hand(s), he reinvents himself, chameleon-like, to convince you that he is the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2023
This is simply lovely. The violoncello piccolo is slightly smaller than the normal instrument and tuned a fifth higher; the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/2023
Following his earlier recordings of Liszt’s Sardanapalo (2/19) and A Dante Symphony (4/20) for Audite, Kirill Karabits now turns his...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 10/2023
This issue marks the first foray into contemporary repertoire by John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London. The four works...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 10/2023
At a difficult time for UK new music (the much-loved contemporary ensemble Psappha depressingly having taken the decision to close...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 09/2023
American tenor Lawrence Brownlee’s new recording is a very personal project – a disc with a mission. ‘Rising’, in the...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 09/2023
This is not the first concept album based around the original sin in the Garden of Eden. It’s not even...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 09/2023
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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