![Mark my words, Sir – Elder conducts Sibelius & Debussy [Hallé]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/halle-3.jpg)
Apr 21, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Unless he has designs on Kullervo, with numbers 4 & 6 Sir Mark Elder completes his Sibelius Symphony Cycle for the Hallé’s own label; superb performances that make me regret I have not yet heard the previous issues in this series. The bleak and tragic Symphony 4,...
Apr 20, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Neeme Järvi (head of the Järvi conducting clan) digs well below the core repertoire line for this collection from Estonian composers schooled in St Petersburg. On the evidence of these selections, Kapp (1878-1952), Lemba (1885-1963) & Lüdig (1880-1958) all wrote...
![The Early Horn – Ursula Paludan Monberg [Hyperion]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/horn-700x675.png)
Apr 19, 2020 | Recording Reviews
The Early Horn – the title bringing Carry On connotations to my mind – is explained thus in Hyperion’s annotation: “Exploring the natural horn’s pivotal role in eighteenth-century chamber music, this album celebrates the instrument’s dramatic arrival from its rustic...
![Thomas Adès & Boston Symphony Orchestra – Adès World Premiere Recordings of Piano Concerto & Totentanz [Deutsche Grammophon]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/ades.jpg)
Apr 18, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Thomas Adès’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, a conscious title of equal billing, premiered in 2019 (see link below), and his Totentanz (first heard at the BBC Proms in 2013) are captured from Boston Symphony concerts in excellent performances (Adès is a fine...
Apr 18, 2020 | Recording Reviews
I spent a few hours this afternoon in the company of Jonathan Biss, who has now journeyed his survey of Beethoven’s Complete Piano Sonatas, recorded between 2011 and last year. The layout of the individual discs (all separately available) is maintained for the box,...
Apr 17, 2020 | Recording Reviews
The National Symphony Orchestra (based in Washington D.C. at the Kennedy Center) now has its own record label. This is the first release. Gianandrea Noseda, recently installed as NSO music director, isn’t as ‘inside’ Aaron Copland’s Billy the Kid (Suite) as Leonard...
