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
Joseph Moog and Kai Adomeit are so well matched that you can hardly tell the pianists apart. In the opening...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2023
This is an intelligently planned, finely played album for trombone and string quartet, part recital of contemporary music, part hypothesis...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2023
A century before Rodrigo immortalised the palace of Aranjuez in his guitar Concierto (1939), oboist-composer Stanislas Verroust (1814 63) composed...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2023
Shostakovich was extremely lucky in at least one respect: in his declining years he married a woman who was perfect...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 04/2023
How does one review a recording of this nature? The very last studio activity of the late Lars Vogt, a...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 04/2023
The piano’s mysteriously, sensuously quivering pianissimo tremolo on to which is spun a long, slowly unfurling violin half-melody, the whole...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2023
Alpha and the brilliant young Van Kuijk Quartet again steal a march on their CD competitors by offering three Mendelssohn...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 04/2023
Although it has never been forgotten, the music of Pamela Harrison (1915 90) has received few recordings, and those who...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 04/2023
Charlie Siem and Itamar Golan team up for a commanding, grippingly communicative rendering of Vaughan Williams’s meaty and technically challenging...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2023
Bára Gísladóttir is emerging as a major figure on the contemporary music scenes in Denmark (where she lives) and Iceland...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2023
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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