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
This album from L’Orfeo Barockorchester intriguingly does not name a director. Are we to assume that violinist Michi Gaigg, their...
Reviewed by Mark Seow in issue: 11/2024
Given the relative unfamiliarity of the works on this disc, I decided to audition each selection first without knowing the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2024
Although Franz Liszt never realised his ambition to arrange his Sonata in B minor for two pianos, his friend Camille...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 11/2024
Benjamin Hochman stands out for both the acuity of his programming and the refinement of his interpretations. This typically thoughtful...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz in issue: 11/2024
The opening of Grigory Sokolov’s latest recorded recital takes me back to Horowitz’s 1986 Moscow recital (DG, 12/86), partly for...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2024
Années de pèlerinage (‘Years of Pilgrimage’) is without parallel in the Romantic piano literature. Begun when Liszt was 22 years...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 11/2024
Since her first prize at the 2015 Leeds Competition, Anna Tsybuleva has divided opinions. Her debut album of Fantasies (Champs...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2024
As Jon Baxendale observes in his cogent booklet notes to this two-disc collection of Byrd’s keyboard music performed on the...
Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: 11/2024
Now well into his 90s, Brendel the essayist remains on compelling form. In a sharp series of thoughts about Busoni,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2024
Alexandre Kantorow completes his survey of Brahms’s piano sonatas with a stunning release that stands up to its two widely...
Reviewed by Peter J Rabinowitz 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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