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
Composed between 2008 and 2016, the works on this release count among the strongest and most evocative from Frederic Rzewski’s...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2023
Here reaching its fourth volume, Jean Muller’s Mozart survey has been garnering warm praise for its sensitivity to the idiom,...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 06/2023
In his early twenties, Francisco Mignone (1897-1986) left his native Brazil to study in Milan. He spent nearly a decade...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2023
Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger (c1575-1628) was one of the greatest exponents of and composers for the lyra viol, a fretted...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2023
The recording was made in the Salon de Musique, Hôtel de la Fondation Singer-Polignac, Paris. This has an acoustic that...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 06/2023
Scharwenka’s ingenious four-hand versions of the Beethoven symphonies are not easy to carry off. They may have been intended for...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 06/2023
Nigel North’s four-disc series for Linn of ‘Bach on the Lute’ back in the 1990s was rightly admired: ‘performances that...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 06/2023
Benjamin Alard has arrived at the eighth volume of a projected 18 of all Bach’s keyboard works. As he explains...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2023
'The Stradgrass Sessions’ – one of the more evocative album titles of late, conjuring late-into-the-night laughter, whiskey and musicians just...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 06/2023
'An orchestra of three’ is how Trio Khaldei describe themselves, and this latest disc could almost serve as a sonic...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 06/2023
Rob Cowan on a revealing collection of recordings by the Russian violinist David Oistrakh
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