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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MONTGEROULT Études (Clare Hammond)
Where will Clare Hammond pop up next? If she is not championing new works and recording their world premieres, she...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2022
LISZT 'The Organ Composer' (Anna-Victoria Baltrusch)
A good programme, this, with all three of Liszt’s major organ works and the addition of Totentanz in an arrangement...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2022
John Wilson: Upon Further Reflection
Young pianist John Wilson has chosen an interesting blend of 20th-century American piano music for his solo debut release on...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2022
CHAMINADE Piano Music (Mark Viner)
I might just as well simply repeat what I wrote in the February 2019 issue when I welcomed Mark Viner’s...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2022
JS BACH 'Bach on the Bassoon' (Bram van Sambeek)
Bram van Sambeek brings us Bach on the bassoon. And to overdo the alliteration, his playing is bold, beguiling and...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2022
JS BACH The Complete Works for Keyboard, Vol 7 (Benjamin Alard)
The chorale prelude has so long been established in our musical culture as a stand-alone organ piece that its origins...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 12/2022
A Golden Cello Decade, 1878-1888
Important cello sonatas arrived in trickles until 1878, Steven Isserlis writes in his detailed and delightfully informative booklet note, the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2022
Les frères Francœur
This album charts the Francoeur family – a French musical dynasty spanning the Baroque to the early Romantic period. First,...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2022
Society: Bach; Abel
The excellent booklet notes tell us that there is ‘no extant record’ of what works were specifically performed at the...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2022
HOLST; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS String Quartets (Tippett Quartet)
Recordings of Vaughan Williams’s two numbered string quartets have never been exactly thick on the ground, so a hearty welcome...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2022
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
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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