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’s good to see the Sgambati Piano Concerto given another dusting. As the first Romantic piano concerto composed by someone...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2024
Although a Bicentennial commission and premiered in New York, Messiaen’s Des canyons aux étoiles … (1971 74) has only latterly...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 02/2024
Conducting the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, of which he is Artistic Director for Life, in his native Tallinn, Neeme Järvi...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 02/2024
Dvořák would probably be accused of cultural appropriation these days, but the critic Louis Ehlert took an altogether more generous...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2024
Another Schumann/Grieg concertos coupling, anyone? After Lipatti, Kovacevich and countless others, what does this new one have to offer? Well,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 02/2024
From the outset these 12 concertos have always been beyond borders – created for diverse occasions in Rome, revised by...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 02/2024
‘The sound of groaning cellos’ was how Stéphane Mallarmé evoked the Paris home of Ernest Chausson, though he might simply...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 02/2024
When Leopold Nowak’s edition of the original 1873 version of Bruckner’s Third Symphony was published in 1977, there was hope...
Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 02/2024
A decade ago Herbert Schuch recorded Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto with the WDR SO, coupling it with the Piano Concerto...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 02/2024
Visual art and literature are at the core of the three piano cycles featured on Behzod Abduraimov’s latest solo release...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2024
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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