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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Veronique Gens: Paysage
French vocal music could not have a finer ambassador’ was how I closed my citation for our Artist of the...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2024
New Millennium
Between 2007 and 2022 Andrew Nethsingha raised the already high standard of the Chapel Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024
Masters of Imitation
I’ll get straight to the point and say that this new release from The Sixteen, celebrating the Renaissance tradition of...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2024
Lumen Christi: A Sequence of Music for the Easter Vigil
Here’s the second ‘sequence’ of liturgical music recorded by Westminster Cathedral Choir in the faraway surroundings of Buckfast Abbey, whose...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 04/2024
VICTORIA Tenebrae Responsories (Hollingworth)
Robert Hollingworth’s motto for this disc is the question he poses in his introduction: ‘How can so little mean so...
Reviewed by David Fallows in issue: 04/2024
STAINER The Crucifixion
Has John Stainer’s 1887 warhorse ever truly gone out of fashion? This ‘Meditation on the Sacred Passion of the Holy...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024
RACHMANINOV All-Night Vigil (Antonenko)
In recent years there has been almost an embarrassment of fine recordings of Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil, better (if erroneously) known...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024
PERGOLESI Stabat Mater VIVALDI Nisi Dominus
This third album from PRJCT Amsterdam is also their Pentatone debut. Pergolesi’s Stabat mater and Vivaldi’s Nisi Dominus must be...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2024
JEFFREYS 'Lost Majesty - Sacred Songs and Anthems'
If you have ever stopped to wonder about that awkward musical gap between William Byrd and Henry Purcell in traditional...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2024
HANDEL Neun Deutsche Arien (Daniel Saether)
Already well represented on disc and regularly reviewed in these pages, Handel’s Nine German Arias need little introduction save for...
Reviewed by Edward Breen in issue: 04/2024
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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