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
Surreal? Avant-garde? Or just sloppy? In the booklet notes for this new recording of The Excursions of Mr Brouček, annotator...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2024
If you enjoy Francesco Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur, you might be pleasantly surprised by its successor, Gloria. That’s no aspersion on...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 09/2024
The Gesualdo Six, an ensemble of male voices, was formed in Cambridge in 2014 to perform Gesualdo’s Tenebrae Responsories of...
Reviewed by Iain Fenlon in issue: 09/2024
Though Thomas Hardy is best known as the author of well-known (and for the most part) fatalist novels, he aspired...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 09/2024
This final album of Andrew Nethsingha’s acclaimed ‘Magnificat’ series features recordings made during 2022. It also marks the close of...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2024
At the risk of sounding like a damaged sound file (as opposed to a broken record): did anybody listen to...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 09/2024
As fewer young people are exposed to the treasures of Anglican hymnody and a number of misguided senior clergy seem...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 09/2024
This Venetian Baroque programme is a departure for Contrapunctus – discographically at least. It views the Italian Baroque through the...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2024
It is common knowledge that the Sollazzo Ensemble that was awarded the contract for recording the entire Leuven Chansonnier on...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 09/2024
The start of this recital promises something bracingly ahistorical: the aeolian wind and unpitched instrumental sounds might have come straight...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 09/2024
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...
Rob Cowan’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
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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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