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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RUDERS Chamber Works
Poul Ruders may be less regarded for his chamber than for his orchestral and operatic output, and this release offers...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2022
RAZAZ The Strange Highway
Chilean poetry, Middle Eastern mythology, a new-age novel and Salvador Dalí are among the myriad of extramusical elements that have...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2022
RAVEL Works For Violin (Elsa Grether; David Lively)
Here we have a pair of albums that take very different approaches to Ravel’s slender output for violin. On Aparté,...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2022
MUSTONEN String Quartet No 1. Piano Quintet
Long established as a pianist, Olli Mustonen (b1967) is increasingly active as a conductor and composer, so that anyone who...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2022
MCINTOSH Little Jimmy
Since being founded in 2005, piano and percussion quartet Yarn/Wire has established itself as one of new music’s most adventurous...
Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: 11/2022
JALBERT Air in Motion
Pierre Jalbert (b1967) ranks high among US composers of his generation, with a diverse catalogue whose amalgam of tradition and...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 11/2022
GRIEG The Cello Works - Transcriptions and Songs
Grieg composed his Cello Sonata for his brother John. Does the music’s feverishness reflect their complicated relationship? That’s the question...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2022
GÁL Piano Quartet. Suite. Concertino. Impromptu
One of the most delightful and insightful music books on the Viennese Classical tradition is Hans Gál’s Franz Schubert and...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2022
BRAHMS; RACHMANINOV Cello Sonatas (Gautier Capuçon)
One of the features of the Verbier Festival is its throwing together of artists who may never have performed together...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2022
BRAHMS; FUCHS; HERZOGENBERG 'The Brahms Connection'
I was happy to bump into Robert Fuchs’s First Sonata (1878) again, having been charmed by its many felicities on...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton 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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