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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CHIHARA Concerto-Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra
It may come as a surprise that a composer as experienced as Paul Chihara (b1938) has not written more for...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 11/2023
Cordelia Williams: Cascade
It seems only yesterday that I heard Cordelia Williams at the University of Sheffield in a selection of Vingt Regards,...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2023
Alice Sara Ott: Beethoven
Whatever the rationale behind Alice Sara Ott’s hybrid programme, her Beethoven is enlivened by some fascinating interpretative touches. She greets...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2023
JS BACH Das wohltemperirte Clavier, Book 2 (Ewa Pobłocka)
The salient qualities that I praised in Ewa Pobłocka’s recording of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1 carry over to Book...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2023
JS BACH Goldberg Variations (Oliver Schnyder)
This is a bold choice for Swiss pianist Oliver Schnyder’s first foray into Bach on record. How do you like...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 11/2023
‘Stained Glass’
The ‘second’ violin sonatas of Ravel and Prokofiev are unusual bedfellows on disc – Viktoria Mullova paired them early in...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2023
Friedemann Eichhorn : 'Liebestod’
It’s been less than a year since Alpha released Fazıl Say’s thrilling and thought-provoking duo recital with Patricia Kopatchinskaja (2/23)....
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 11/2023
Sergio Tiempo: Hommage
It is not every pianist who can pick up the phone and ask Martha Argerich, Mischa Maisky or Nelson Freire...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2023
‘Corellimania’
No prizes for guessing the focus of this multi-composer programme; and yes, this would hardly be the first programme to...
Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 11/2023
A, I & N TCHEREPNIN Chamber Music
The Tcherepnin family is a musical dynasty that has given us several generations of composers. The music of the three...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 11/2023
Hi-Fi, Books, Reissues & Archive Reviews
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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