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
Surely this is the first recording devoted solely to the works for viola da gamba and keyboard by Carl Philipp...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 06/2023
The Soviet-born Austrian-American novelist, poet, composer, conductor and concert pianist Lera Auerbach’s 24 Preludes for violin and piano were completed...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 06/2023
All but one of the works on this new album date from the past 10 years, not that you would...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 06/2023
Tchaikovsky was inspired to write his Violin Concerto after playing through Édouard Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole with Yosif Kotek in March...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2023
Gil Rose has a special knack for finding music that has somehow slipped through the cracks. Here, he gives us...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 06/2023
Edward Gardner approaches the end of his Schubert cycle – only the Ninth to go – with a coupling of...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2023
Given the limited representation of Schreker’s music in DG’s catalogue, the release of this excellent double album of works by...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2023
Pancrace Royer (1703 55) may be long recognised as one of the French Baroque’s most significant harpsichord composers but his...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 06/2023
This generously filled album brings together a selection of concert works and film music by Nino Rota. Such is the...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2023
This latest release of Respighi’s orchestral works completes the series of recordings by BIS that have been conducted by John...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards 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...
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It’s hard to think of another book about a specific instrument that goes quite as deep as this
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