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
Relatively few organists have explored the byways of early Iberian organ music, despite there being a goodly number of surviving...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 01/2023
‘New Paths’ refers of course to the title of Robert Schumann’s essay in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik in which...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2023
As with ‘Arc I’ (6/22), ‘Arc II’ showcases Orion Weiss’s imaginative programme-building and intelligent artistry. He’s obviously pondered over each...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2023
Warner/Erato continues to feed the market with Bach Goldberg Variations piano releases, from recent versions by Dong-Hyek Lim (11/08), Alexandre...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2023
The latest release in an ongoing collaboration between Delphian and Young Concert Artists Trust, ‘Beau soir’ highlights the talents of...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 01/2023
Recordings of all three of Schumann’s violin sonatas come round less often than you might imagine, so it’s pleasing to...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2023
For the Jubilee’s leader Tereza Privratska, Schubert’s last quartet is ‘filled with the emotions of a dying man expressing so...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2023
An intriguing recording: on first playing, I found this album difficult to get into, an experience that felt as if...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2023
Matthew Kaner (b1986) studied music at King’s College London before moving on to postgraduate studies with Julian Anderson at the...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2023
Sadly, there is very little to recommend here. Violinist Gunar Letzbor and Ars Antiqua Austria bring us chamber music by...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2023
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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