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
Having impressed with his pairing of Dvořák and Martinů (7/21), Victor Julien-Laferrière turns to French concertos for what proves a...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 08/2023
At the risk of making a weak (but nevertheless apt) joke, Czerny did rather churn it out. One has to...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2023
Welcome to the third volume of the music of Eric Coates from John Wilson and the BBC Philharmonic, the second...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 08/2023
This is as fine a recorded account of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony as I’ve heard for some time, both in terms...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 08/2023
These releases of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony offer a fascinating contrast, BIS’s recording giving us the well-known second version of the...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 08/2023
This set’s opening gambit is an account of the First Symphony that’s both gemütlich and gripping – no easy feat....
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2023
Hans Abrahamsen’s music is always divining, assimilating, shaking down – seeking the truth by returning to the same places over...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 08/2023
Unaccompanied violin music relies for its effect on a player whose approach to the instrument treats athleticism and acute tonal...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 08/2023
The Teatro Sant’Angelo was the principal theatre in Venice with which Vivaldi was associated, as both composer and manager. It...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2023
Following Olimpie (7/19), this is Bru Zane’s second recording of an opera by Spontini. La Vestale reached the stage of...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2023
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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