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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MORAVEC The Shining (Schwarz)
I saw Stanley Kubrick’s film The Shining sometime in the early 1980s, had nightmares for weeks afterwards and have seen...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 05/2024
BUSONI Doktor Faust (Meister)
‘World premiere on video’ announces Dynamic’s cover of this release of Busoni’s magnificent but problematic operatic masterpiece. It’s a false...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2024
Vaughan Williams: A Birthday Garland (Roderick Williams)
A warm welcome to this absorbing recital, curated by Roderick Williams to take on tour with pianist Susie Allan to...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 05/2024
Sacred Treasures of Venice
This classically conceived and executed recital gives us a few of the usual suspects (the two Gabrielis and Monteverdi) but...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 05/2024
Palimpsest
It’s 30 years since the ECM label released Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble’s ‘Officium’ (10/94), whose synthesis of plainsong...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024
Brindley Sherratt: Fear No More
As John Fallas puts it in his informative booklet note, ‘not many singers record their first recital album two decades...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2024
Ruby Hughes: End of my Days
Soprano Ruby Hughes’s previous album, ‘Echo’ (1/23), focused mainly on Baroque and contemporary repertoire, with occasional nods towards folk music....
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 05/2024
TIPPETT A Child of Our Time (Davis)
This is the first new recording of Tippett’s wartime masterpiece since Colin Davis’s LSO Live version of 2007 and it...
Reviewed by Geraint Lewis in issue: 05/2024
Schumann in English Vol 1
Just a few months after a fourth volume of ‘Schubert in English’ (12/23), Christopher Glynn’s initiative of recording lieder in...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 05/2024
PORPORA Music for the Venetian Ospedaletto
Plenty of eminent teachers and composers beyond Vivaldi had close links to the four Venetian ospedali grandi, the Pietà, Incurabili,...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 05/2024
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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