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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Lisette Oropesa: French Bel Canto Arias
For her second solo album, Lisette Oropesa combines her love for both the French language and Italian music in an...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2022
CATALANI La Wally (Orozco-Estrada)
Despite the fame of the title-character’s ‘Ebben? Ne andrò lontana’, Alfredo Catalani’s La Wally remains a rarity on disc –...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 11/2022
The Psalms (Choir of St John's College, Cambridge)
If I could take only a few forms of music to a desert island, the psalms sung to Anglican Chant...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2022
Vivaldi's Women
La Serenissma’s latest delve into the Vivaldi archives has thrown up a programme full of unfamiliar textures, all helping to...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2022
STEELANT 'Antwerp Requiem ca. 1650'
Although Philippe van Steelant (1611-70) isn’t a household name, his pedigree is hardly insignificant: a scion of a family of...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 11/2022
SILVESTROV Requiem Für Larissa (Mustonen)
This is not the first recording of Silvestrov’s Requiem, written in memory of his wife, Larissa Bondenko – it has...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 11/2022
SCHUBERT Schwanengesang (Ian Bostridge)
Rest assured that Ian Bostridge is not nearly as wizened, and the late Lars Vogt wasn’t nearly so eagle-eyed, as...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2022
MONTEVERDI Selva Morale e Spirituale (Koetsveld)
Monteverdi’s monumental last anthology Selva morale e spirituale (Venice, 1641) contains nearly 40 different sacred and spiritual pieces. Most were...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2022
HILDEGARD 'Sacred Chants' (Grace Davidson)
Hildegard of Bingen is now by a massive margin the most often-recorded composer from the years before Byrd and Monteverdi...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 11/2022
GERVAIS Grands Motets pour Louis XV
His opera Hypermnestre may be pronounced ‘the best of the Regency period’ by Grove and others, and the composer himself...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 11/2022
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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