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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Migration
This generously filled album brings together four works by contemporary American composers either scored or adapted for wind ensemble. Adam...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2022
WEINBERG Symphonies Nos 3 & 7 (Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla)
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla’s follow-up to her Gramophone Award-winning recording of Weinberg’s Second and 21st Symphonies (6/19) couples two of his less...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2022
VIVALDI Violin Concertos (Julien Chauvin)
Julien Chauvin and Le Concert de la Loge bring us the latest in their Vivaldi Edition with Naïve, a recording...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 11/2022
SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos 5, 6 & 7 (Hughes)
The final instalment in Owain Arwel Hughes’s Sibelius cycle features the composer’s last three symphonies, and very impressive performances they...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 11/2022
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphonies Nos 4 & 11 (Rozhdestvensky)
I don’t think anybody would deny that there were times when Gennady Rozhdestvensky wore his craft so lightly, so casually,...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2022
SCHUBERT Symphonies Nos 8 and 9 (Savall)
Schubert can hardly be thought to have become caught up in anniversary fervour but a generous production of symphonic recordings...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2022
RAVEL Orchestral Works, Vol 2 (Trevino)
I think it’s fair to say that I greeted the inaugural Ravel collection from this source (7/21) with ‘modified rapture’....
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/2022
RACHMANINOV Symphony No 3. Isle of the Dead (Wilson)
We might love Rachmaninov for his big tunes but he is also a great master of building epic spans from...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 11/2022
MOZART Piano Concerto No 23. Symphony No 40 (Chauvin)
Julien Chauvin and Le Concert de la Loge reprise the overture-concerto-symphony formula of their previous Mozart recording (1/22) with a...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2022
MAHLER Symphony No 5 (Bychkov)
The real pleasure here lies with the Czech Philharmonic – something individual, characterful and homespun in a world dominated by...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson 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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