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
If you want to read a glowing review of at least one work on this disc, you can do so...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 06/2018
The South Korean pianist Yeol Eum Son (b1986) is already something of a veteran, having performed with the New York...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 06/2018
The distinction between objectivity and subjectivity is crucial in Mahler and it doesn’t take long to establish that Vänskä’s bias...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2018
Setting this new studio recording of Mahler’s teenage piano quartet movement, as elaborated by Colin Matthews, against a more congested...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2018
At least on record, the Leipzig Gewandhaus does not have much of a Mahler tradition – Masur and Neumann briskly...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 06/2018
Emmanuel Krivine’s new La mer with the Orchestre National de France focuses on the much-discussed question of Debussy’s decision, on...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 06/2018
The third release in Naxos’s survey of Carl Czerny’s works for piano and orchestra offers two recorded premieres, both dating...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2018
Despite their interest in Bruckner’s output being quite selective, both Kurt Sanderling and Carlo Maria Giulini made a number of...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 06/2018
A compendium of popular and streetwise Lenny for Bernstein 100 – and the virtuoso trombonist in Christian Lindberg surely gives...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 06/2018
What’s the longest viola joke in the world? Harold in Italy. It didn’t make Niccolò Paganini laugh though. The virtuoso...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 06/2018
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...
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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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