Sep 23, 2021 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Delightful, eloquent, witty, fired-up, capricious, profound, mercurial … Haydn’s music does all these things, and more, during this CD’s sixty-seven minutes. Paul Lewis is exploring Haydn’s Piano Sonatas – this is Volume Two – and includes four of them here: C-minor...
Sep 22, 2021 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
With superbly immediate recorded sound courtesy of David Hinitt (November 2019, London) complementing Andrew Keener’s high-end production values, Garrick Ohlsson can totally focus on the first two Piano Sonatas to continue his notable if occasional Brahms series for...
![George Enescu Festival – Paavo Järvi conducts Mahler 3 [TV Romania live webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/paavo-549x675.jpg)
Sep 18, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos
Saturday, September 18, 2021 Grand Palace Hall, Ion Câmpineanu 28, Bucharest, Romania On Wednesday night it was Mahler 3 at home; on this Saturday evening Paavo Järvi had been on his travels to Bucharest for the same work, his Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich musicians...
![Inauguration of the newly renovated Tonhalle Zürich – Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich – Paavo Järvi conducts Mahler’s Third Symphony, with Wiebke Lehmkuhl [SRF 1 live webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/tonh-1080x675.jpg)
Sep 17, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos
Wednesday, September 15, 2021 Tonhalle, Claridenstrasse 7, 8002 Zürich, Switzerland Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga The room by the lake. To a design by Helmer and Fellner, late Habsburg Europe’s most celebrated master builders, inaugurated by Brahms...
Sep 10, 2021 | BBC Proms 2021, Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]
Friday, September 10, 2021, Royal Albert Hall, London Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 from 7.30 p.m. JSB’s ‘Aria and thirty variations’ found Pavel Kolesnikov in whimsical form at times, giving the impression of extemporisation, a nudge here, a stab there, a teasing...
Sep 4, 2021 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Transferred at an unexpectedly high volume, which goes against the relative intimacy of this music and these reduced-forces readings of it, a decrease in volume (by about a third of normal) tames the stridency that is immediately apparent in K216 without sacrificing...
