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
Booklet notes that begin ‘According to Wikipedia’, in my book, are not a great first sign. Neither is an album...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 12/2022
This intriguing album is a showcase for what Brazilian composers during the course of the 19th century could achieve after...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 12/2022
Charlie Parker’s Ornithology on the treble recorder? Surely not. But yes, this is exactly how Dutch recorder supremo Lucie Horsch...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 12/2022
I thought this would be a nil nisi bonum appreciation of a sorely missed artist who commanded wide respect among...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 12/2022
Few nations venerate cinema like the French. Think of François Truffaut’s admiration of the films of Hitchcock or his love...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 12/2022
Few composers’ lives were more affected by the geopolitics of the 20th century than that of Isang Yun. Born in...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2022
The English Symphony Orchestra and Kenneth Woods’s ‘21st Century Symphony Project’ goes from strength to strength: Philip Sawyers’s Third (10/17;...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 12/2022
We’ve reached the penultimate volume in Martyn Brabbins’s stimulating RVW symphony cycle for Hyperion. Proceedings are launched with a scrupulously...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 12/2022
Noseda’s account of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth doesn’t put a foot wrong but leaves one wanting so much more. I could leave...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 12/2022
Following the impressive earlier releases of the First and Second Symphonies (3/19, 4/20), Santtu-Matias Rouvali’s Sibelius cycle continues with notable...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 12/2022
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...
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It’s hard to think of another book about a specific instrument that goes quite as deep as this
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