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
Hard on the heels of LSO Live’s austere English-language Soldier’s Tale comes this version in the original French from Harmonia...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2018
‘Immer zu! Ohne Rast und Ruh’ – ‘Ever onwards, without respite’: these words from Schubert’s turbulent Goethe setting ‘Rastlose Liebe’...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2018
‘A Drumming for this decade – and probably a few to come’ was my reaction to the Colin Currie Group’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 11/2018
A pair of quintets composed for inspirational players, both of whom were pioneers of the nascent clarinet and its technique....
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2018
The past couple of years have seen the appearance of Alina Ibragimova’s cycle of all Mozart’s music for violin and...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 11/2018
This recording should come with a warning not to read the booklet notes until after listening to the CD. Look...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 11/2018
‘Though free to think and act, we are held together like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable’, we...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2018
‘History is cruel, and the history of music is no exception’, begin the notes to this latest top-drawer offering from...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2018
This year marks the centenary of Estonia’s independence; yet, while plenty of attention has already been bestowed on the nation’s...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 11/2018
Described as ‘testamentary’ on its back cover, the latest release in Harmonia Mundi’s Debussy anniversary series is perhaps more an...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2018
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 on the legacies of a trio of conductors in the music in which they excelled
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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
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