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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MESSIAEN Chants de terre et de ciel. Poèmes pour Mi (Barbara Hannigan)
By the time he was 30, in 1938, Olivier Messiaen had already impressed as a gifted composer of instrumental music...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 07/2024
HEINICHEN 'German Sacred Cantatas'
Heinichen was a pupil at Leipzig’s Thomaskirche of Bach’s predecessors Schelle and Kuhnau. He practiced law briefly until quitting in...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2024
DEBUSSY Ariettes oubliées; STRAUSS Four Last Songs (Siobhan Stagg)
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra has seemed to put its best foot forward for the debut release on its own label...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 07/2024
JS BACH ‘Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern’
Post-war recordings of Bach cantatas from Germany are a richer repository than is generally known, outside those on the major...
Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 07/2024
YVAIN Yes!
You might already know the title number of Maurice Yvain’s Yes! from Susan Graham’s treasurable French operetta album (Erato, 5/02);...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 07/2024
NIELSEN Maskarade (Engel)
Nielsen’s second opera hasn’t always travelled well outside its native land. The ‘sung in German’ label on this newcomer rang...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 07/2024
MASSENET Werther (Vashegyi)
Some will doubtless raise eyebrows at Bru Zane’s inclusion of Werther in their ongoing re-evaluation of the lesser-known French repertory....
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 07/2024
DE LA GUERRE Céphale et Procris (van Mechelen)
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre’s Céphale et Procris (March 1694) was the first and only full-scale tragédie en musique to...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2024
HANDEL Poro, re delle Indie (Angioloni)
Poro (King’s Theatre, February 1731) was modelled on Metastasio’s Alessandro nell’Indie, which had just recently been first set to music...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 07/2024
GLUCK Orfeo ed Euridice (Plewniak)
It is clear from his introductory note in the booklet that the moving spirit behind this recording is Jakub Józef...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 07/2024
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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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