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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VIADANA Sacri concentus
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana’s groundbreaking Cento Concerti ecclesiastici (Venice, 1602) was the first publication of sacred music to include mandatory...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2024
CORIGLIANO; HO Chamber Works
Imagine setting the words to Paul McCartney’s ‘Yesterday’ while ignoring the song’s well-known flowing melody, plangent harmonies and nostalgic expression....
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 09/2024
M BERKELEY Collaborations
Here’s a marvellously stylish showcase for some eclectic and characteristically communicative repertoire by the seemingly indefatigable Michael Berkeley (76 years...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 09/2024
Vienna: Joyful Apocalypse (Aurelien Pontier)
Recorded in the Salle Colonne, Paris, in 2021, Aurélien Pontier’s album is ‘an act of homage to the Vienna of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2024
Samaroff & La Forge: Complete Solo Recordings
Olga Samaroff and Frank La Forge – two names which I suspect will be unfamiliar to many readers. Almost exact...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2024
Reformation: Keyboard Works by Byrd, Gibbons, Bull & Sweelinck (Mishka Rushdie Momen)
Pianist Mishka Rushdie Momen covers much of the same ground in this album of keyboard works by the English virginalists...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 09/2024
Fazil Say: Morning/Evening
A disc arrives for review, you see the name of the artist(s), you survey the repertoire and already your critical...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2024
Handel Remembered (Kenneth Hamilton)
Kenneth Hamilton’s writings about Romantic performance practice are always erudite, insightful, vividly expressed and delightfully witty, and this holds true...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 09/2024
SWEELINCK Keyboard Works (Andrea Vivanet)
The Italian pianist Andrea Vivanet is smart to mix a representative spectrum of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck’s basic compositional forms –...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 09/2024
LE BRET Pieces de Clavecin (Simone Pierini)
Well here’s a name that’s probably new to most of us. Le Bret published a single book of harpsichord pieces...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp 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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