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
However much Wagner’s uncut 18-hour Ring cycle is one of the ultimate epic immersion experiences, even staunch Wagnerites might be...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2024
Verdi’s operas have their share of sorcery but none embraces the supernatural like Macbeth, and few productions push it so...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 11/2024
Say what you like about Barrie Kosky’s new production of Die Fledermaus, but it’s not short of Fledermice. Right from...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2024
Les Boréades was rehearsed twice in April 1763 but then abandoned. Perhaps its libertarian plot fell foul of censors during...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 11/2024
Call it operatic speed dating as the tenor Jonas Kaufmann embarks on a whirlwind romance with six different sopranos. In...
Reviewed by Neil Fisher in issue: 11/2024
Remember the rubber shark in Martin Kušej’s doomed Idomeneo at the Royal Opera in 2014? Its carcass is served up...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2024
‘The world is beautiful, when luck brings you a fairy tale …’ Lehár’s post-Merry Widow career is studded with fascinating...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2024
The chemistry of mysticism, a partiality for orientalism and a career teaching at St Paul’s Girls’ School for over 30...
Reviewed by Jeremy Dibble in issue: 11/2024
Just when you thought falsettists couldn’t get any higher, along comes Bruno de Sá, pinging out high Cs and Ds...
Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 11/2024
Here’s a very grown-up pleasure: Benjamin Bernheim and Carrie-Ann Matheson have put together a recital of French-language songs that are...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 11/2024
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 on the legacies of a trio of conductors in the music in which they excelled
Rob Cowan’s monthly survey of historic reissues and archive recordings
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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