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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Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: AW2024
The impossible quest has been attracting storytellers since Orpheus. Picture a Day Like This, the fourth opera by George Benjamin...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW2024
Is it any accident that the well-established German soprano Mandy Fredrich has been heard mainly on opera DVDs, well ahead...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: AW2024
Many a major musical institution is largely ignoring the Schoenberg anniversary this year, so thank heavens for artists like Claire...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW2024
If anyone could make this project work, it’s Jakub Józef Orliński. Poland’s coolest classical star, a countertenor who sounds like...
Reviewed by Alexandra Coghlan in issue: AW2024
'Enargeia’, Emily D’Angelo’s impressive debut album (DG, 11/21), received the prize for Best Concept Album at the 2022 Gramophone Awards....
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW2024
With six composers and the Latvian Radio Choir, Skani offers us a ‘time stamp’ of the state of new Latvian...
Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW2024
Michael Tilson Thomas’s achievements as a composer have often fallen under the radar when measured against his many successes on...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: AW2024
Some three years after I gave a warm welcome to Kateřina Kněžíková‘s superb first solo album on Supraphon – a...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW2024
Completed in January 1897 to mark Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee and first given at the following year’s Leeds Festival, Stanford’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: AW2024
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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