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
Prodigy Clara Schumann (Wieck at the time) was 14 when she wrote the third movement of her Concerto, and 16...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 03/2023
‘Subtle’ is the adjective used on the inlay card for this concluding volume of Mahler’s reorchestrations of Schumann’s symphonies. Well,...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2023
The title of this series of solo works has nothing to do with South America in the sense that one...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 03/2023
Gone are the days when these scores occupied a less than central place in the repertoire. Recent recordings have set...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2023
Prokofiev at his most excessive makes for an unusual but perfectly logical concerto-symphony coupling. That it should come courtesy of...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2023
The final instalment in this marvellous cycle of the Carl Nielsen symphonies does not disappoint. The Danish National Symphony Orchestra...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 03/2023
That Gottfried von der Goltz and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra have arrowed straight to the three most popular (and uncoincidentally...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2023
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s happy collaboration with Gábor Takács-Nagy and the Manchester Camerata in the Mozart piano concertos, begun in 2016, has...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2023
One of Arturs Maskats’s intentions with his symphonic poem Tango (2002), which came third in the 2003 Masterprize International Composers’...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2023
‘The greatest harmonist in Italy, that is to say in the world’, wrote Jean-Jacques Rousseau of Francesco Durante in his...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 03/2023
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...
Rob Cowan’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
Rob Cowan on the legacies of a trio of conductors in the music in which they excelled
Rob Cowan dives into Warner’s second volume of Wolfgang Sawallisch’s recordings
It’s hard to think of another book about a specific instrument that goes quite as deep as this
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