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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BRAHMS Symphonies Nos 1& 2 DVORÁK Symphonies Nos6 & 7 (Hrůša)
I was listening to this pair of two-disc sets – completing Jakub Hrůša and the Bamberg Symphony’s series juxtaposing the...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 12/2022
JS BACH Orchestral Suites BWV 1066-1069 (Dunedin Consort)
Remembering their recordings of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos (A/14) and violin concertos (4/16), what else are we to expect from John...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 12/2022
ADÈS Märchentänze (Collon)
On first glance, you crave some meat here. Where’s the main course? If Nicholas Collon’s Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra can...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 12/2022
Marina Viotti: A Tribute to Pauline Viardot
Pauline Viardot led a remarkable life. Born in France to Spanish tenor Manuel García, who created the role of Count...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2022
Randall Scotting: The Crown - Heroic Arias for Senesino
Senesino (nickname for Francesco Bernardi) set the template for the star castrato with attitude. In contrast to the far more...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2022
Jodie Devos: Bijoux perdus
Like Marina Viotti’s recording devoted to Pauline Viardot (see overleaf), this new album featuring Jodie Devos is a tribute to...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2022
MONTEVERDI Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Fuget)
Akin to the proverbial London bus, you wait ages for a new interpretation of Il ritorno d’Ulisse on record, then...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2022
LULLY Acis et Galatée (Rousset)
Acis et Galatée is the last completed opera in Lully’s distinguished output, but unlike his famous and influential tragédies lyriques...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 11/2022
LEONCAVALLO Zingari (Rizzi)
After Leoncavallo’s Zazà (7/16), Opera Rara continues to mine the nether regions of the verismo alphabet with the same composer’s...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2022
HANDEL Amadigi di Gaula (Curnyn)
Italian opera in London was still on a precarious footing when Handel staged Amadigi in May 1715. Fickle aristocratic audiences...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2022
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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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