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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VECCHI Le veglie di Siena
Orazio Vecchi had two stints as maestro di cappella at the cathedral in his native Modena, although early in his...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2024
SCHÜTZ Musikalische Exequien
As Fabrice Fitch explained in his Gramophone Collection in the last issue, there is already an extensive discography for Heinrich...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 08/2024
A SCARLATTI Prima d’esservi infedele: Cantatas for Solo Voice with Violins
Alessandro Scarlatti composed more than 800 cantatas, so it is little wonder that these four for soprano voice, two violins...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2024
Go, Lovely Rose: Songs of Roger Quilter (James Gilchrist)
‘The songs of Roger Quilter seem to have been with me all my life’, James Gilchrist tells us in a...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 08/2024
BONONCINI 'How the Mighty are Fallen' - Choral Music
A few of Bononcini’s sacred works copied in English 18th-century manuscripts can be connected to their use in concerts by...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 08/2024
Mischa Levitzki: The Complete HMV Recordings
APR first issued this iconic collection in 1992 (APR7020, 6/92). It was a revelation for many pianophiles who had either...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2024
Rebeca Omordia: African Pianism Vol 2
The second volume of Rebeca Omordia’s ‘African Pianism’ proves as much of a revelation as the first (5/22). The opening...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 08/2024
STOCKHAUSEN Mantra (GrauSchumacher Piano Duo)
Whether or not he would admit it, playing jazz piano in the cafés of post-war Cologne left its mark on...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2024
SCHUBERT Ländler (Pierre-Laurent Aimard)
Schubert composed around 450 dances for piano. While their original function may have been modest, all are exemplary of their...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2024
Movements: Schumann, Ravel, Stravinsky (George Li)
Since his silver medal at the 2015 Tchaikovsky Competition, the American pianist George Li, who turns 29 this summer, has...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 08/2024
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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