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
‘Will Mullova keep us waiting another ten or more years for her next sonata instalment’, I asked when the second...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2024
Fifty years ago, the LSO and Ole Schmidt gave us the first complete recording of Nielsen’s symphonies, braving power cuts...
Reviewed in issue 08/2024
There are now two versions of Vaughan Williams’s big-boned Fantasia for piano and orchestra (1896-1904) to choose from. Never published...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 08/2024
Dima Slobodeniouk has his Galician orchestra at the tip of his baton in the crisp sforzandos that punctuate the first...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 08/2024
Hard on the heels of the release of Kenneth Woods and the English Symphony Orchestra’s fifth instalment (devoted to Steve...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 08/2024
Ferdinand Ries is better known now for his association with Beethoven. His own music is not an unknown quantity, though,...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2024
Mexican composer Gabriela Ortíz (b1964) carries on where Carlos Chávez, Silvestre Revueltas and other mid-20th-century modernists left off – creating...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 08/2024
Michael Collins and the Philharmonia here kick off their projected Mozart symphony cycle in splendid style: three joyful, extrovert works...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 08/2024
Howard Griffiths’s ‘Next Generation Mozart Soloists’ series has done sterling work in promoting young musicians and giving them valuable studio...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2024
Good things come to those who wait, they say, and at last – three decades on from its inauguration –...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 08/2024
Rob Cowan on a revealing collection of recordings by the Russian violinist David Oistrakh
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