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
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GESUALDO Silenzio mio: Fourth Book of Madrigals
I warmly welcome this new addition to our collective understanding of the Prince of Venosa. No longer headlining as a...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 10/2024
FAURÉ Requiem GOUNOD Messe de Clovis (Niquet
Conductors who record Fauré’s Requiem are likely to do so at least twice. Mysteries are few, vocal lines have no...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 10/2024
DEAN Rooms of Elsinore
em>Hamlet tends to get under the skin, but it’s a sign of how seriously Brett Dean took his 2010 Glyndebourne...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2024
Brahms Songbook Vol 2
For the second release in his projected survey of Brahms’s complete songs on Linn, Malcolm Martineau is joined by mezzo...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 10/2024
AHO; RAUTAVAARA Joy and Asymmetry
Teacher and pupil Einojuhani Rautavaara and Kalevi Aho sit well together, not least as each tempered stringent formal principles with...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 10/2024
Maria Narodytska: War Poems
The grim cloak of war informs all of the music on this disc to varying degrees, as discussed in vivid...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2024
Jean-Paul Gasparian: Origins
Though born in Paris, Jean-Paul Gasparian identifies as ethnically Armenian. He will be 29 this year and has already amassed...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2024
Anna Fedorova: Intrigues of the Darkness
Do Anna Fedorova’s colourfully succinct descriptions of the works featured on this musical journey from darkness to light spill over...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2024
Alessio Bax: Forgotten Dances
Notwithstanding the inclusion of Liszt’s first Valse oubliée, why call this smartly programmed collection ‘Forgotten Dances’ when the performances are...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2024
Paul Guinery: Finger Prints
This corncucopia of light piano pieces from Paul Guinery will come as no surprise to many of us who followed...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 10/2024
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Debussy in Context (Edited by Simon Trezise) | Book Review
In our current dark times we need Debussy as much as ever. And this book is a perfect way in if you...
Replay: The bel canto violin of Alfredo Campoli, plus Madeleine de Valmalète, Monique Haas, Emanuel Feuermann & Alfred Dubois
Rob Cowan’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
Box-set Round-up: November 2024 (Prêtre, Celibidache, Jansons)
Rob Cowan on the legacies of a trio of conductors in the music in which they excelled
Review - Wolfgang Sawallisch: The Warner Classics Edition - Complete Opera Recordings
Rob Cowan dives into Warner’s second volume of Wolfgang Sawallisch’s recordings
Cello: A Journey through Silence to Sound (by Kate Kennedy) | Book Review
It’s hard to think of another book about a specific instrument that goes quite as deep as this
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