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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SORABJI Toccata Terza (Abel Sánchez-Aguilera)
Composed in 1955, the manuscript of Sorabji’s two-hour-plus Toccata terza had been missing for decades when it was rediscovered in...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2024
RAVEL Complete Works For Solo Piano Vol 1 (Vincent Larderet)
Here is the first of four planned discs devoted to Ravel’s piano works that promises to be painstakingly comprehensive, with...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2024
RACHMANINOV Piano Duos (Babayan; Trifonov)
This album of Rachmaninov’s two-piano music offers a winning mix of limitless pianism, deep knowledge and visionary boldness. Add to...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 05/2024
Debussy and Ravel for Two
A quick glance at the repertoire above and it seems to be a nice programme of well-known piano pieces by...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2024
CHOPIN Variations in B-Flat Major. Sonata in B-Flat Minor (Aleksandra Swigut)
Keeping track of the Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina’s ‘The Real Chopin’ period-instrument releases can be daunting, given the sheer volume...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 05/2024
JS BACH Sonatas and Partitas (Franz Halász)
Fans of German guitarist Franz Halász’s take on Bach’s so-called Lute Suites (9/19) and his earlier recording of the three...
Reviewed by William Yeoman in issue: 05/2024
JS BACH Die Kunst der Fuge (Masaaki Suzuki)
Only weeks after, in reviewing Christophe Rousset’s recent Art of Fugue (Aparté, 1/24), I was saying how recordings of it...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 05/2024
Trio Lirico: Treasures
Two difficult rarities anchor this release. Most challenging is the first recording of Peter Eötvös’s 2020 Trio, written as a...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 05/2024
Daniel Hope: Dance!
We learn from Andrew Stewart’s first-rate booklet that Daniel Hope wanted to make a dance album 20 years ago. Concept...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2024
TARTINI Violin Sontatas (Adrian Chandler)
Well, what a treat this is. I can’t be the only one who finds themselves, whenever a fresh concerto recording...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 05/2024
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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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