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
Already available separately as a digital-only EP, Andrew Manze’s RLPO account of Vaughan Williams’s towering Job: A Masque for Dancing...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 08/2023
When compared with the two other Ouvertüre movements on the first disc, the Suite in D, TWV55:D21, is clearly the...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 08/2023
BR-Klassik continues to mine its archive for concerts to release on disc and has dug back to 2013 for this...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 08/2023
Alpesh Chauhan’s Tchaikovsky album with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra came as a surprise – the choice of repertoire is...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 08/2023
The music of Pierre(-Charles) Sancan (1916-2008) is rarely heard. Though a much-revered figure in his native France as a composer,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2023
Fancy starting the day with a burst of sunlight, whatever the weather? Try Mozart’s Concerto No 16 in D, K451,...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2023
Having created a work as perfect as the Italian Symphony, most composers would have sat happily back and thought ‘job...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2023
Although written half a century apart, the Third Piano Concertos by Martinů and Rautavaara have enough in common, conceptually and...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2023
The topic of love and death unifies the works on this disc, yielding a programme that sits better conceptually than...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2023
In the best of Sebastian Fagerlund’s music there is plenty of interest (and importance) happening beneath a lucid surface. Structurally,...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor 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...
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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