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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M HAYDN Die Ährenleserin
'Haydn has no talent for musical theatre’, wrote Leopold Mozart about his Salzburg colleague Michael Haydn. Wolfgang Brunner and the...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 03/2024
HANDEL Theodora (Cohen)
‘More prescient and pertinent with every performance’ is how Ruth Smith describes Theodora in a typically astute booklet note for...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2024
A BONONCINI Cantate per Contralto con Violini
This recording was made in the monastery of St Florian, near Linz in Austria, where Alois Mühlbacher was a choirboy....
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 03/2024
Déjà-rêvé: Dialogues Across Time (Klavierduo Neeb)
Ever since Bartók’s 1937 Sonata, the medium of two pianos and percussion has exerted a compelling fascination on contemporary composers,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 03/2024
VILLA-LOBOS 'Do Brazil' (Wilhem Latchoumia)
The La Dolce Volta label’s high-end production values have always befitted Wilhem Latchoumia’s intelligent musicianship and cultivated pianism. Collectors familiar...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2024
Diaries: Schumann (Tiffany Poon)
Hong Kong-born New York-based Tiffany Poon is one of the piano world’s most enterprising vloggers and YouTube denizens, as well...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2024
SCHUBERT Piano Works Vol 7 (Vladimir Feltsman)
In Vladimir Feltsman’s burly hands, Schubert’s Impromptus leap out of the drawing room into the opera house. The characteristically swimmy...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2024
POULENC Piano Music (Chiara Cipelli)
Poulenc always claimed that the truest measure of his piano-writing was to be found not in the solo works or...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2024
MUSSORGSKY Pictures SCHUMANN Kriesleriana (Robert Neumann)
‘If you play the text as it is printed you cannot hope for the music to make much sense. The...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 03/2024
HAMELIN New Piano Works
Oh. My. Word. This is, I think, an important recording, not merely because it captures some of the most astonishing...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2024
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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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