Jan 23, 2022 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
The title owes to Proust. Imogen Cooper, re-exploring pieces she learnt when a teenager in Paris (she explains this in the booklet), opens this eighty-three-minute recital with Ravel’s Valses nobles et sentimentales, establishing that she is very well recorded, with...
Jan 22, 2022 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Four choice pieces by Sir Harrison Birtwistle (born 1934) beginning with Trio (for violin/Lawrence Power, cello/Adrian Brendel, and piano/Tim Horton; 2011), a restless fifteen-minute work, its single movement intense, expressive (Expressionist) and gripping in its...
Jan 22, 2022 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Following this, http://www.colinscolumn.com/paul-lewis-plays-beethovens-bagatelles-harmonia-mundi/, and this, http://www.colinscolumn.com/paul-lewis-records-haydn-piano-sonatas-for-harmonia-mundi/, Paul Lewis now turns to Brahms, the twenty pieces that constitute his...
![Berliner Philharmoniker – Kirill Petrenko conducts Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta [live Digital Concert Hall webcast; sung in Russian, with German and English surtitles]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/amsil.jpg)
Jan 15, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos
Asmik Grigorian takes the role of Iolanta Saturday, January 15, 2022 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Exceptionally this season, the Berlin Philharmonic and Kirill Petrenko have programmed three Tchaikovsky operas. Mazeppa was first up,...
Jan 14, 2022 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Recordings made between 1952 and 1958 (mono/stereo) Sonatas for Violin & Piano by Busoni, Delius, Elgar, Mihalovici, Ravel and Walton, with pianists Monique Haas, Colin Horsley and Noel Mewton-Wood The first disc collects three Sonatas that are each around the...
![Berliner Philharmoniker – Zubin Mehta conducts Mahler’s Third Symphony, with Okka von der Damerau [live Digital Concert Hall webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/zubinM3.jpg)
Dec 18, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos
Saturday, December 18, 2021 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Zubin Mehta (born 1936) has been a regular guest of the Berlin Philharmonic since 1961 – conducting it at home, on tour, and in recordings. For his latest visit it was the...
