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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BERMEL 'Intonations' Music For Clarinet and Strings
Naxos’s previous release of music by clarinettist-composer Derek Bermel (b1967), ‘Migrations’ (A/19), impressed me with its varied, colourful demeanour, bracing...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW22
Sarah Plum: Personal Noise
A slim discography barely hints at violinist Sarah Plum’s prolific career as a ‘new music specialist’ but confirms her engagingly...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 10/2022
Mosaic (Wenting Kang)
Since winning First Prize in the 2012 Tokyo International Viola Competition, Chinese player Wenting Kang has gotten around, playing in...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 10/2022
MCCLELLAND Where the Shadow Glides - Songs, Solo Piano and Choral Works
The catalogue of William McClelland (b1950), as viewed on his website wmcclelland.com, is relatively modest in numbers, divided largely between...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 10/2022
Enfolding
The String Orchestra of Brooklyn’s new album features first recordings of works that transform notions of what 22 strings and...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2022
BEETHOVEN Complete Music for Piano and Cello (Robert deMaine)
Cellists must be eternally grateful to Beethoven for his role in transforming their instrument from supporting player to fully fledged...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2022
WEINBERG The Passenger (Kluttig)
Half the action of The Passenger takes place in the hell-on-earth of Auschwitz and the other half in the false...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2022
VERDI Falstaff (Gardiner)
There are many memorable fat knights in the Falstaff discography, so it’s all the more splendid to have another Sir...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 10/2022
TELEMANN Pastorelle en musique (Oberlinger)
In his 1718 autobiography Telemann mentioned that in Frankfurt he had composed about 20 serenatas for weddings. These were entirely...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2022
SCHÜTZ Dafne (Wilson)
Alas, the music of Schütz’s Dafne is entirely lost. Whether or not the ‘pastoral tragi-comedy’ was really the first German...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 10/2022
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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