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
It was through the agency of one of his patrons in Rome, Cardinal Colonna, that Handel was commissioned to compose...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2024
By now, audiences know not to expect anything conventional from Simon-Pierre Bestion, who imposes all kinds of outside influences on...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2024
In July 2022, having established themselves in the Parisian church of Saint-Eustache, the Chapel Choir of Trinity College Cambridge under...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024
Following on from their Gramophone Award-winning Fauré survey (8/22), Cyrille Dubois and Tristan Raës head into hitherto uncharted territory with...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2024
The story of how the 20-year-old Mendelssohn revived the unknown St Matthew Passion by Bach at a series of performances...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 04/2024
Franco Alfano is best known these days for his completion of Puccini’s Turandot but he was a prolific composer in...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 04/2024
These two German Baroque keyboard recitals are strikingly similar in both conception and programme. Zsombor Tóth-Vajna uses the Orpheus myth...
Reviewed by Fabrice Fitch in issue: 04/2024
This is the fourth release by the Cologne-based husband-and-wife piano duo team of Gülru Ensari and Herbert Schuch. As Schuch...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2024
If Can Çakmur’s recordings so far have shown anything, it’s that this rising star of the Turkish piano scene has...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 04/2024
Arvo Pärt’s piano works may not rate as highly in his oeuvre as the choral settings or symphonic works but...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2024
Rob Cowan on a revealing collection of recordings by the Russian violinist David Oistrakh
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It’s hard to think of another book about a specific instrument that goes quite as deep as this
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