![Rob Keeley Orchestral Music [Toccata Classics]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/rob.jpg)
Jul 4, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Rob Keeley, a Welshman born in 1960 and “immersed in London musical life since boyhood”, has a sophisticated composing technique that he uses to create engaging music. This Toccata Classics release of first recordings proves to be an ideal introduction to Keeley’s...
![Emil Tabakov, Complete Symphonies, Volume Five [Toccata Classics]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/TOCC-0562-cover-1080x675.jpg)
Jul 3, 2020 | Recording Reviews
I really must find more time to listen to music! 24/7 seems to not be enough when there are new pieces to be discovered and old friends to be experienced again. Here, for example, is Volume Five of Emil Tabakov’s Complete Symphonies, courtesy of the...
![RELEASED TODAY, July 3 – Hallé: Mark Elder records Debussy’s Images & Faune [Hallé own label]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/halle-1080x675.jpg)
Jul 3, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Sir Mark joins Ansermet, Cluytens, Dutoit and Munch (and I have a soft spot for Previn’s LSO recording, and an indelible memory of Boulez and the BBCSO in the Royal Festival Hall, early-nineties, as pristine and as shimmering as could be wished for) in documenting,...
![Inbal Segev records Anna Clyne & Edward Elgar – Marin Alsop conducts the LPO [Avie]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/inbal.jpg)
Jun 28, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Another day, another Elgar Cello Concerto – over-exposure has diminished the composer’s confiding and melancholic expression. I listen to it rarely and when I do I have two first-choice recordings, coincidentally featuring the Philharmonia Orchestra – Steven Isserlis...
![RELEASED TODAY, June 26: The Romantic Piano Concerto #81 – Piers Lane records Arnold Bax, Arthur Bliss & Edmund Rubbra [Hyperion]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/piers-700x675.png)
Jun 26, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Originally published on June 14 Blimey! New recordings of the Piano Concertos by Bliss and Rubbra; music-lovers in the Shires will be whooping it up. I thought I’d flag this one up early – Hyperion’s release date isn’t until June 26 when I shall re-publish this...
![RELEASED TODAY, June 26: Marc Albrecht conducts Alexander von Zemlinsky – Die Seejungfrau [Pentatone]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/zem.png)
Jun 26, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Originally published on May 23 It’s apt that this review of Zemlinsky’s The Mermaid should sit adjacently to coverage of Schoenberg’s Pelleas und Melisande, for not only were the men brothers-in-law (Schoenberg married Zemlinsky’s sister) but, more pertinently, both...
