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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Nicole Keller: Those Americans
A warm welcome to this collection of organ rarities, played with outstanding advocacy by Nicole Keller on the sonically exciting...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 10/2024
RUNESTAD A Dream so Bright
Jake Runestad addresses two major issues in the choral works on this new album: post-traumatic stress disorder and the plight...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2024
Ochre
The Crossing is an ensemble devoted to repertoire that expands the possibilities of vocal music even as it challenges the...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: 10/2024
DAVIDSON Barefoot
In her booklet notes and interviews, Tina Davidson puts an emphasis on the introspective nature of these five beautifully written...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 10/2024
ERKIN; RAVEL; SCHULHOFF String Quartets
Bravo first of all to the Klenke Quartet for having the imagination to pair the Ravel String Quartet neither with...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 09/2024
Aigul Akhmetshina: Aigul
Only in her late 20s, Russian-born Aigul Akhmetshina has caused a considerable stir of late after what can only be...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 09/2024
MEYERBEER Le Prophète (Elder)
The 21st-century Meyerbeer revival – much talked about, not all that tangible – is so far bearing more fruit on...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 09/2024
LULLY Armide (Dumestre)
Like Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques, Vincent Dumestre and Le Poème Harmonique are working their way through the operas...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 09/2024
LEITH Last Days
‘A place where flecks of magic are chipped or hacked from mundanity – where the familiar and domestic are heightened...
Reviewed by Thomas May in issue: 09/2024
LANGGAARD Antikrist (Zilias)
With the Deutsche Oper Berlin’s 2023 staging of Antikrist, Rued Langgaard’s only opera received arguably its highest-profile production since it...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2024
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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