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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Arpeggione - A Forgotten Instrument
‘The tirelessly active instrument maker, Mr Stauffer … has introduced a new instrument, which he calls the Guitarre d’amour’, reported...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 10/2024
Augustin Hadelich: American Road Trip
Throughout this ingeniously programmed ‘American Road Trip’, showcasing his versatility across various American musical styles, Augustin Hadelich displays mastery in...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2024
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Complete String Quartets (Verdi Quartet)
The sharp-eyed reader of Michael Kennedy’s standard work on the music of Vaughan Williams will remember that he composed three...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 10/2024
TORELLI 12 Concerti da Camera
That the Verona-born violinist and composer Giuseppe Torelli has long been recognised as an important figure in the development of...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2024
TANEYEV Violin Sonata. Piano Quintet
This is a superb performance of Taneyev’s massive and meaty Piano Quintet. Like Mikhail Pletnev and his starry quartet of...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2024
MENDELSSOHN Piano Trios Nos 1 & 2
Until now, Joshua Bell, Steven Isserlis and Jeremy Denk have joined up on only a single recording, which featured the...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 10/2024
D MATTHEWS Complete String Quartets Vol 6
As I write this review David Matthews has probably already finished his String Quartet No 18! Only the Seventh (with...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 10/2024
MARAIS Tombeau pour Monsieur de Sainte Colombe
In her booklet note to La Rêveuse’s latest superb release, the ensemble’s co-founder, gamba player Florence Bolton, remarks how the...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 10/2024
CLYNE Shorthand
You’re never quite sure what to expect with Anna Clyne’s music, and that’s not meant as a criticism in any...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2024
'Elegy'
Francis Purcell Warren (‘Bunny’ to his friends) was a gifted viola player killed, when only 21, at the Battle of...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 10/2024
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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