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
Those au fait with the music of Edmund Finnis via releases such as ‘The Air, Turning’ (NMC, 4/19) and ‘Shades’...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 04/2024
Lucas Debargue is an artist who likes to go his own way, as witness his terrifically characterful Scarlatti sonatas (11/19),...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2024
It’s the fate of the Austrian composer Carl Czerny to be known not as the composer of over 1000 compositions...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2024
In 2011 Christopher Brown began composing 24 Preludes and Fugues for piano, completing them in time for his 70th birthday...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2024
For his first recording on a fortepiano, Gianluca Cascioli has chosen works by Beethoven composed and published between 1796 and...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 04/2024
Cédric Tiberghien’s notion of mixing things up, done with such mastery in the first volume of his complete Beethoven variations...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2024
As with Vol 4 of Masaaki Suzuki’s Bach series (A/23), this new disc was recorded in Grauhof’s Stiftskirche St Georg,...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024
Silvestrov, Dowland, Shaw, Rota, Brian Eno … none of these names immediately suggest Venice, but the fact that they appear...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 04/2024
‘A Room of Her Own’ continues the Neave Trio’s exploration of works by female composers begun four years ago with...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 04/2024
The hour referenced in the title is the period in the early decades of the 18th century when Italian influence...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 04/2024
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’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
Rob Cowan on the legacies of a trio of conductors in the music in which they excelled
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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