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
While Jón Leifs was flitting between Reykjavik and Berlin there were Icelandic composers who stayed put – or at least...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2023
Born in Campinas, Brazil, Antônio Carlos Gomes (1836 96) studied at the Imperial Conservatory in Rio de Janeiro before a...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2023
It’s second time around for soloist Sandy Cameron in Danny Elfman’s Concerto for amplified violin and orchestra (the subtitle Eleven...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 05/2023
Christian Thielemann’s Bruckner cycle with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra continues apace with this refined performance of the Ninth Symphony, recorded...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 05/2023
This is a superb account of the original 1874 version of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, first published in 1975 in Leopold...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 05/2023
He may be best known for his 17 symphonies but Kalevi Aho (b1949) has also written 38 concertos that, between...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 05/2023
We’ve had a whiff of Thomas Adès’s ballet score Dante in Gramophone’s pages before. Last year I reviewed a performance...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 05/2023
At the end of a multi-volume survey such as this, one inevitably reflects on the whole project as much as...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2023
There is a fascinating dichotomy at the heart of this album, one that – for once – produces positive results...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 05/2023
That the 21st century seems not only to have liberated cello duos but unleashed them is amply demonstrated by VC2,...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 05/2023
Rob Cowan on a revealing collection of recordings by the Russian violinist David Oistrakh
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