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 pleasing programme highlights the gifts of a rather special musical family, one that recalls the similarly gifted Busch/Serkin, Menuhin...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 09/2024
It’s always fascinating to hear an approximation at least of how this music might have sounded in Mahler’s day (as...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2024
Uzu is Toshio Hosokawa’s starkly palindromic title for axgripping 24-minute orchestral work from 2019, and the composer’s booklet note explains...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 09/2024
Her ECM recitals ‘Visions fugitives’ (2/15) and ‘Elusive Affinity’ (9/19) defined Anna Gourari as a pianist on a mission, while...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 09/2024
Alexandra Dariescu is celebrated as a creative programmer dedicated to music by women composers; and this inventive combination, which revitalises...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 09/2024
The distinguished contralto turned award-winning conductor has made a splash with her new orchestra in Atlanta. And now we can...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 09/2024
‘I find it impossible to separate Bruckner from his deep spiritual beliefs’, writes Manfred Honeck in his notes for this...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 09/2024
As with Markus Poschner’s cycle of the Bruckner symphonies for Capriccio, Gerd Schaller’s series of recordings for Profil aims to...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 09/2024
As Donald Rosenberg noted (6/22US) of a previous album of hers, ‘Margaret Brouwer covers a lot of emotional territory in...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 09/2024
Numerous chamber orchestras have recorded the Brahms symphonies over the past quarter of a century. My favourite features the Chamber...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2024
Rob Cowan on a revealing collection of recordings by the Russian violinist David Oistrakh
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