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
Yet another album of Bach’s sonatas for viola da gamba and obbligato harpsichord, I hear you sigh. Yet gambist Andrea...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 01/2024
Just three years have passed since the United Strings of Europe released their first recording (2/21), but the London-based group...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: 01/2024
Name 15 French symphonic poems. Assuming Saint-Saëns’s Danse macabre and Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice head your list, where next? After...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 01/2024
These interpretations are not markedly different from Herreweghe’s period-instrument recording with the Champs-Élysées Orchestra on his first Schumann symphony cycle....
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 01/2024
Although still rarely encountered in the concert hall, Franz Schmidt’s symphonies are increasingly well represented on record, this being at...
Reviewed by Christian Hoskins in issue: 01/2024
Not quite 20 years since the LSO recorded its last Prokofiev symphony cycle in a concentrated burst of performances at...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2024
It is a curious feature of Olli Mustonen the composer that, rather like Stravinsky, he has written relatively little for...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 01/2024
This account of Mozart’s Symphony No 40 follows Il Pomo d’Oro’s recording of No 41, the Jupiter (4/23); no doubt...
Reviewed by Richard Lawrence in issue: 01/2024
Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto is most commonly coupled on recordings with the Clarinet Quintet or with a complementary concerto by another...
Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2024
The latest stop on Robert Levin and the Academy of Ancient Music’s belated traversal of Mozart’s complete output for keyboard...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 01/2024
Rob Cowan on a revealing collection of recordings by the Russian violinist David Oistrakh
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