![Post #100: Maxim’s Scottish Schubert [Linn]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cover-CKD619_0.jpg)
May 8, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Maxim Emelyanychev begins his discography as Principal Conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra with this bracing account of the ‘Great C-major’, Schubert’s Ninth (or, in German-speaking countries, Eighth) Symphony. Captured in Caird Hall Dundee, in excellent...
May 7, 2020 | Recording Reviews
I started with The Planets, Andrew Litton & the Bergen Philharmonic relishing the warlike Mars with uncompromising martial steps and threatening atmosphere, Holst’s vivid orchestration (not least the col legno effects) opened up and captured in audiophile-worthy...
May 6, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Some vintage and enticing recordings here, mostly from the 1950s and taken from the Decca catalogue, including oodles of Tchaikovsky. Eloquence’s presentation embraces original cover artwork (always welcome), LPs’ catalogue numbers, recording dates & locations (on...
![Beethoven 250 – Stephen Hough records the Five Piano Concertos | Hannu Lintu conducts [Hyperion]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/034571282916-700x675.png)
May 3, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (with thanks to Alan Sillitoe): that was my plan to audition Stephen Hough’s survey for Hyperion of Beethoven’s Five Piano Concertos. I achieved my goal, but unlike a similar stratagem for Stewart Goodyear’s recent versions (see...
May 2, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Republished from April 10 on the basis that what held good for Easter also holds good for every day. The thirty-one of my Editor’s Choices written for Classical Source (published from Jan 2017 to Oct 2019) are linked to here:...
![Grigory Sokolov [Deutsche Grammophon]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/sokolov-1080x675.jpg)
May 1, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Deutsche Grammophon already has in its catalogue one of the great piano recordings: Sokolov live at Salzburg, Mozart & Chopin (review-link below). Now, this wonderful Russian artist (born in 1950) is heard in a 2019 programme, pieced together from June appearances...
