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 is the third recording of Josquin from A Sei Voci in recent years. The ensemble habitually belies its name,...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 10/1997
If great violin playing, expert planning and generous playing times are your main priorities, then this neatly packaged presentation of...
Reviewed in issue 11/1995
Beethoven composed the Octet, Op. 103 and Rondino, WoO25 sometime around 1792 and, although it was published separately, there is...
Reviewed in issue 8/1994
Now 82, Jean Francaix has earned respect and affection during his long career, even if he has hardly fulfilled the...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 4/1995
These two issues complement each other very happily, the Romophone going up to 1920, the Conifer concentrating on later recordings,...
Reviewed in issue 3/1994
Building a programme of melodies to texts by Baudelaire is as difficult as compiling a recital of Shakespeare sonnets in...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 4/1988
Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony made a splendid recording ((CD) DE3082, 4/90) of Strauss's Symphonia domestica and the suite...
Reviewed in issue 9/1990
It was Bach's skill at ''wrestling such polyphony from the violin'' which most impressed Albert Schweitzer, and also, it seems,...
Reviewed by hfinch in issue: 5/1986
Karl von Ordonez (also known as Carlo d’Ordonez) may sound like an unlikely Viennese but he was in the thick...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 5/2006
Liszt made his transcriptions of Beethoven's symphonies so that music-lovers could familiarize themselves with these masterworks at a time when...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 8/1988
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
Rob Cowan on the legacies of a trio of conductors in the music in which they excelled
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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