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
This third disc in Chandos’s Grainger series (the first two were reviewed in 11/96) brings another triumph for Richard Hickox,...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/1997
It is amazing to me that it is already over 12 years since Krystian Zimerman won the Warsaw Chopin Competition....
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 7/1988
The most interesting comparison here is between Takuo Yuasa and Neeme Jarvi in Part’s granitic Third Symphony. The piece was...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 3/2001
Few readings in recent years have been more assiduously toured or generally acclaimed than Wand’s Bruckner Eighth yet Wand himself...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 1/2002
After Dong-Suk Kang, eminently satisfying on Naxos, to say nothing of the classic, long-breathed Kennedy (EMI) or before him, Heifetz...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 7/1992
Following in the wake of Hyperion’s marvellous surveys of Schubert and Schumann Lieder, here comes the even more welcome first...
Reviewed by John Allison in issue: 6/2005
Few composers concentrated so completely on writing operas as Puccini did, and all but one of the items on this...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/2004
Piero Coppola gained early conducting experience in his native Italy, but after the First World War settled in Paris and...
Reviewed in issue 9/1993
On the face of it the catalogue is not exactly crying out for this issue. But it turns out to...
Reviewed in issue 4/1992
If Bach had heard Thomas Quasthoff he might have considered making his Evangelist a baritone. Such is the telling presence...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 1/2005
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
Rob Cowan’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
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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