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
John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London continue their exploration of the orchestral works of Kenneth Fuchs in a second...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 07/2024
The flow of recordings marking this centenary year of Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) may be now well under way but the...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2024
Enescu’s three numbered symphonies were composed between 1905 and 1918 and, although demonstrating an eclectic range of influences, reflect the...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2024
Currently enjoying his 24th and final season as music director of the Hallé, Mark Elder has already given us painstakingly...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 07/2024
The fifth release in Kenneth Woods and the English Symphony Orchestra’s groundbreaking ‘21st Century Symphony Project’ focuses on Steve Elcock...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 07/2024
It used to irk me when young pianists chose to include Beethoven’s last piano sonata in their debut recordings. It...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2024
Lahav Shani’s recording of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony was warmly welcomed by Richard Osborne in these pages last year (8/23), and...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 07/2024
If one were asked to sum up young British cellist Laura van der Heijden’s career to date, then beyond its...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 07/2024
Few concertos establish a more vivid sense of anticipation than Beethoven does at the start of his Triple Concerto, a...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 07/2024
After the heroic first movement and the tragic second, writes Iván Fischer in a brief foreword to this new Budapest...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 07/2024
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
If you are a library, university or other organisation that would be interested in an institutional subscription to Gramophone please click here for further information.