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
Two things are likely to strike you listening to ‘Perseverance’, Marcus Eley’s new release of African American chamber music. First...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 02/2024
The Empire City Men’s Chorus deliver a poignant and powerful rendition of Nicholas Weininger’s nine-movement cantata, a heartfelt homage to...
Reviewed by Laurence Vittes in issue: 02/2024
Yvar Mikhashoff (1941 93) was best known as a pianist who championed contemporary music in big ways. He thought nothing...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 02/2024
The road towards recognition has been a somewhat slow and circuitous one for Gregory T Glancey. Indeed, one of the...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 02/2024
Operetta recitals by star soloists have a long, if patchy, pedigree. Now Diana Damrau steps up, and it needs to...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2024
Individual elements of this Siegfried live up to the high standards set by the previous instalments of the BRSO/Rattle concert...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2024
It’s the night before Christmas, and while the villagers of Dikanka gossip and drink vodka, the Devil is up to...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2024
Filmed at the 2022 Donizetti Festival in Bergamo, this new Favorite is at once imperfect and significant: imperfect because there...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 01/2024
Familiarity can breed contempt, but for the Opéra-Comique and Delibes’s Lakmé, it’s a case of ‘trust the experts’. A work...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 01/2024
Beyond – what exactly? Boundaries? Highlights? Expectations? Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński's latest recording wants to test all these limits...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2024
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...
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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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