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 is indeed a splendid recording of the Concerto. The Gewandhaus Orchestra sound bright and resplendent in the great D...
Reviewed in issue 12/2013
Cellos and basses laying the foundation for the first movement of K595 don’t only articulate the harmony. In this performance...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 12/2013
Premiered in 1927, Copland’s Piano Concerto was described by one critic as ‘a jazz dance hall next to a poultry...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2013
The mother-and-daughter partnership of Zina Schiff and Avlana Eisenberg shows an evident unity of purpose in both concertos. In the...
Reviewed by Duncan Druce in issue: 12/2013
There are few musicians who appear more steeped in their worlds than Sigiswald Kuijken and one senses that Bach’s pure...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2013
For some, a disc of Bach’s Violin Concertos is incomplete without the ubiquitous ‘Double’ in D minor – and on...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 12/2013
For Marek Janowski, coming up now to complete his second recorded Ring cycle, vocal colour – rather than strength or...
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2013
Here is one of the great Verdi conductors of our time, who is now doing some of the best work...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 12/2013
The production by Covent Garden’s director of opera sees the story in flashback, beginning with Onegin and Tatyana’s final meeting....
Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: 12/2013
The background to this unfamiliar work is confusing: let’s get it out of the way as concisely as possible. When...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 12/2013
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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