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
Well known as author, publisher and one-time A&R representative, Robert Matthew-Walker (b1939) has also amassed a sizeable output. A 2016...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2023
Seong-Jin Cho’s latest project shows all the consideration and respect for the music that we’ve come to expect from this...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2023
This is a beautiful collection of guitar arrangements of songs by Manos Hadjidakis, one of Greece’s most famous tragoudistes. The...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2023
I was excited to hear this programme, not least because the Fauré Impromptus get out far less often than they...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2023
Leopold Godowsky once bumped into the young Abram Chasins. ‘Is it true’, he asked, ‘that your Rush Hour in Hong...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2023
Two decades ago Cédric Tiberghien recorded a disc of Beethoven variations (4/03) that included the three major sets here (Opp...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 05/2023
More and more classically trained pianists are embracing improvisation and composition, including Camille El Bacha, whose solo piano release ‘Lumen’...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2023
Lucy Humphris’s debut album (her only previous recording – as far as – I can determine – being Cecilia McDowall’s...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2023
Franco-Romanian violinist Sarah Nemtanu, leader of the Orchestre National de France as well as a fine soloist in her own...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 05/2023
Every string quartetter, amateur or pro, knows the problem of finding appropriate encore pieces, and every quartet has its own...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2023
Rob Cowan on a revealing collection of recordings by the Russian violinist David Oistrakh
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