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
Talk about a chamber programme scoring off the chart for niche factor. In fact it’s entirely forgivable to have never...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2023
Written ‘in a completely new and special way, for I haven’t composed any for 10 years’ is how Haydn touted...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2023
With a little help from the Kungsbacka, the Aquinas are gradually colonising the complete Haydn keyboard trios for Naxos –...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2023
In a very crowded field, Dvořák’s F minor Piano Trio might be his single most neglected major chamber work: an...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2023
Hands up: I was dimly aware that Donizetti had written string quartets, but rather like Berlioz (with his insistence that...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 08/2023
Jean-Michel Damase (1928-2013) has, it would seem, divided opinion over time. Flautist Anna Noakes tells us in a booklet note...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2023
Biber has been such a feature of Meret Lüthi and Les Passions de l’Âme’s recorded output of recent years that...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 08/2023
María Dueñas, a Spanish violinist currently completing her two-year stint as a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, isn’t the...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2023
Vänskä’s Mahler Ninth arrives in the wake of Rattle’s recent Bavarian Radio recording – his third of the piece –...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2023
As with the first instalment of Nézet-Séguin’s symphonic Rachmaninov (the First Symphony and the Symphonic Dances – 2/21), there’s a...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2023
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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