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June’s Record of the Month.

June’s Record of the Month.

Jun 30, 2022 | Record of the Month [category w.e.f. July 2021]

The Piano Rules. I wouldn’t want to be without Meneses & Wyss in Brahms’s Cello & Piano Sonatas und sieben Lieder, http://www.colinscolumn.com/antonio-meneses-gerard-wyss-record-brahmss-sonatas-for-cello-piano-opuses-38-99-and-song-transcriptions-for-avie/, or...
May’s Record of the Month.

May’s Record of the Month.

May 31, 2022 | Record of the Month [category w.e.f. July 2021]

I’m in the plural again! It’s Six of the Best* of those recordings I reviewed during merry May, if not necessarily their month of release… Mark Elder and the Hallé complete their Vaughan Williams Symphony Cycle with impressive accounts of Sinfonia antartica –...
April’s Record of the Month.

April’s Record of the Month.

Apr 30, 2022 | Record of the Month [category w.e.f. July 2021]

From a bumper crop of April-reviewed releases that made for Outstanding listening… Hyperion scores a hat-trick with Stephen Hough’s Schubert, http://www.colinscolumn.com/stephen-hough-records-schubert-piano-sonatas-in-a-d664-in-g-d894-for-hyperion/, Piano Trios...
March’s Record of the Month.

March’s Record of the Month.

Mar 31, 2022 | Record of the Month [category w.e.f. July 2021]

Another tie, six (of the best) choices; more this month than any previous ones. To begin is the latest in Christian Thielemann’s Vienna Phil/Sony Classical Bruckner Symphony Cycle,...
February’s Record of the Month.

February’s Record of the Month.

Feb 28, 2022 | Record of the Month [category w.e.f. July 2021]

As for January, it’s a four-way tie, and a Faustian pact between Goethe and Brian. So, in alphabetical order of composer: intriguing piano music by Grażyna Bacewicz from Peter Jablonski for Ondine,...
January’s Record of the Month.

January’s Record of the Month.

Jan 31, 2022 | Record of the Month [category w.e.f. July 2021]

A four-way tie between Jonathan Nott’s Pelleas double, http://www.colinscolumn.com/claude-debussy-arnold-schoenberg-pelleas-et-melisande-pelleas-und-melisande-jonathan-nott-records-both-for-pentatone-with-orchestre-de-la-suisse-romande/, a selection of chamber music...
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