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
There has been a resurgence of interest in Siberia of late as this is the second DVD of Giordano’s 1903...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2023
Pipping Peri’s Euridice to the post by a full eight months, Emilio de’ Cavalieri’s Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2023
Anything as widely recorded as Ravel’s Shéhérazade and Cinq Mélodies populaires grecques needs to arrive in distinguished form to catch...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2023
Divinity, Iestyn Davies muses in the booklet notes for his latest recital, is a term we use these days as...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2023
'Discomfort’ is the unexpected emotion guitarist Sean Shibe singles out in his introduction to ‘Broken Branches’. It was his discomfort...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 06/2023
If you visit the Palazzo Colonna in Rome to admire Annibale Carracci’s remarkable The Bean Eater, along the same wall...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 06/2023
While much of Stanford’s large-scale music suffered increasing neglect after his death in 1924, his Requiem, commissioned for the Birmingham...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 06/2023
Many artists have had lockdown projects, but few can have been as fundamental as Andreas Bauer Kanabas’s. As the German...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 06/2023
Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton are recording so much these days that it’s hard to find a new vocal disc...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 06/2023
We know very little of Francesco Scarlatti, whose reputation has always been overshadowed by those of his elder brother Alessandro...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2023
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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