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
Listening to Saskia Giorgini’s fifth release on Pentatone, it’s easy to see how her career has inspired such enthusiasm. She...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2023
Having previously come across Anna Zassimova’s name only in connection with the Russian Georgy Catoire, whose works she has staunchly...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 09/2023
There could hardly be a more fitting celebration of the Byrd anniversary than a complete recording of My Ladye Nevells...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2023
Competition in recordings of Bach’s solo violin music is strong and plentiful, and one might be forgiven for thinking Pablo...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 09/2023
For Albert Schweitzer the Orgelbüchlein was ‘The Bible of Bach’. For Russell Stinson it is ‘simultaneously a compositional treatise, a...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2023
Keith Jarrett needs no introduction as an interpreter of JS Bach, but the affective world of Carl Philipp Emanuel is...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2023
As album titles go, ‘Music for a New Century’ offers a varied if somewhat uneven snapshot of new music composed...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2023
The historically valuable DG ‘Mozart’s Mannheim’ release arrives swathed in a robe of academic authority. ‘Mozart’s correspondence reveals how he...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2023
I missed Christian Li’s debut album for Decca (he became the label’s youngest-ever signing in 2020), warmly welcomed by Mark...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2023
What a shrewd coupling: seemingly unlikely bedfellows united not just by dint of having both been written in Italy (the...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson 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...
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It’s hard to think of another book about a specific instrument that goes quite as deep as this
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