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
There’s something strangely captivating about hearing Jan Garbarek and the Hilliards chase each other across the centuries to the music...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2010
Decca followed this CBS recording with Kiri Te Kanawa's selection and, issuing the CD in quick order (410 004-2DH, 7/83),...
Reviewed in issue 7/1985
Five solo flutes is not a sound you hear every day, and when those flutes are mellow-toned baroque-style instruments, all...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/1997
Christus am Oelberge (‘Christ on the Mount of Olives’) is a curious piece, reflecting much that was characteristic of Beethoven...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/2000
Robert Shaw won the Gramophone Award for the best choral recording of the year with his performance of Verdi's Requiem...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/1988
Collectors already following these artists' on-going series of the Mozart piano concertos will no doubt take this new disc on...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 5/1993
The music at St Mark’s‚ Venice in the early 17th century yields seemingly inexhaustible riches‚ upon which this attractive programme...
Reviewed in issue 10/2001
What was successful in Book 1 (11/00) is just as successful here. And to his previous line-up of four keyboards,...
Reviewed by Nalen Anthoni in issue: 1/2001
This CBS compilation would seem an attractive proposition: it includes what most music-lovers would regard as three out of four...
Reviewed in issue 1/1986
Schorr has always been one of the foremost singers in my own personal pantheon, and hearing this record through from...
Reviewed in issue 9/1991
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 on the legacies of a trio of conductors in the music in which they excelled
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Rob Cowan dives into Warner’s second volume of Wolfgang Sawallisch’s recordings
It’s hard to think of another book about a specific instrument that goes quite as deep as this
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