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
Keen listeners to the Mozart/da Ponte, Schumann and Mendelssohn cycles from Nézet-Séguin and the COE will find much to enjoy...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 09/2022
An enjoyably no-nonsense kind of playing makes the opening movement of Bach’s Concerto in D minor, BWV1052, extremely striking. Soloist...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 09/2022
I absolutely adored this performance. No equivocation. Hearing the music as Mahler might have heard it – and indeed imagined...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2022
It was only six years ago that Chicago-based Third Coast Percussion became the first percussion group to win a Grammy...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 08/2022
The pandemic has been hard on everyone, including musicians thwarted in pursuing their art. For singers in general and vocal...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 08/2022
When Science Officer Spock of the starship USS Enterprise compiles his playlist in the 23rd century, Yolanda Kondonassis’s recital of...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 08/2022
For the second Berkshire Festival Competition in 1919, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge offered $1000 to the best new work for viola...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2022
As I noted with her previous Acis release, ‘Are Women People?’ (10/21), Lori Laitman’s works are often emotional in expression...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2022
The young British-Italian tenor Freddie De Tommaso caused something of a stir last year with his debut album ‘Passione’ (7/21),...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2022
Samuel Mariño is a true male soprano: his chest voice goes all the way up (and up and up –...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 08/2022
Rob Cowan on a revealing collection of recordings by the Russian violinist David Oistrakh
In our current dark times we need Debussy as much as ever. And this book is a perfect way in if you...
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It’s hard to think of another book about a specific instrument that goes quite as deep as this
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