![RELEASED TODAY, June 17: Herbert Blomstedt and the Gewandhausorchester record Symphonies by Mozart & Voříšek for Accentus. [Mahler/Václav Neumann videos.]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/blomvori.jpg)
Jun 17, 2022 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews, Videos
Originally published on June 3 This wonderfully well-played and superbly recorded release – in memory of Václav Neumann (1920-95), closely associated with Leipzig, both the Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Opera, and later with his native Czech Philharmonic – features a...
Jun 14, 2022 | Recording Reviews
John Ireland (1879-1962) wrote copious amounts of chamber and piano music, and numerous songs, not least the wonderful Sea Fever (setting Masefield). His orchestral output perhaps attracts less attention, yet something like Epic March (1942, a consciously patriotic...
Jun 12, 2022 | Recording Reviews
You know when you have an in-house Cleveland Orchestra package – it’s bigger! Distinctive yes but rather impractical, too, for filing purposes – and, so far, getting the disc returned to where it’s supposed to be, without damaging it, has eluded me! Anyway, this...
Jun 11, 2022 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
A gentle start with Opus 49/1, a two-movement ‘short’ that Annie Fischer (1914-95) plays with finesse and shapely bounce, the first of these Sonata selections recorded as-live for broadcasting at the BBC’s Maida Vale Studios between 1971 and 1987, two of the works...
Jun 8, 2022 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
“Recorded at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam between 12 May 2017 and 20 June 2021” This classy collection of contemporary music (the tenth of the RCO’s Horizon series) embraces fourteen works and gets off to a great start with Weites Land (Musik mit Brahms) by Detlev...
Jun 3, 2022 | Recording Reviews
Originally published on May 31 A curious Petrushka. Fascinating though. From March 20, 1999, at Salle Pleyel, Evgeny Svetlanov (1928-2002), presides over Stravinsky’s 1947 reboot in a way that plays down the bustle and drama of the outer tableaux yet increases...
