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
Of all the composers whom the great Andrés Segovia invited to infuse the classical guitar repertoire with fresh blood in...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2024
Bruce Liu’s new album of music by Satie raises important questions about the relationship between performer and instrument. Does the...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2024
Charlotte Hu, previously known as Ching-Yun Hu, makes her first recording under her new name. It’s a Liszt recital combining...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 10/2024
Gaspard Le Roux is a relatively familiar presence among the French Baroque harpsichordist-composers, even if very little is known about...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2024
For her new Harmonia Mundi recording of Fauré, French pianist Aline Piboule plays four of the 13 Nocturnes and seven...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2024
To what extent are composers’ voices conditioned by the tone and character of the instruments for which they write? It’s...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2024
In the press release of his third disc for Alpha, the French winner of the 2021 Queen Elisabeth Competition compares...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 10/2024
There’s arguably no such thing as a non-impactful opening to a Bach Solo Cello Suites recording. That said, the presence...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2024
Sarahbanda is a by-product of Berlin Philharmonic horn player Sarah Willis’s successful ‘Mozart y Mambo’ series, which she recorded in...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2024
Like the Verbier Festival, ‘Festival Martha Argerich’ hosts some of the world’s best-known soloists, as well as some who aren’t...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 10/2024
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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