![Vasily Petrenko conducts Elgar – Sea Pictures & The Music Makers – Kathryn Rudge with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra [Onyx]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/elgar-1.jpg)
Aug 16, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Between them, mezzo-soprano (with contralto leanings) Kathyrn Rudge and Vasily Petrenko work wonders with Sea Pictures (1899), settings of various poets – she investing the words with much emotion and inhabiting the music with distinction and ravishing tone – ‘Where...
![The Launy Grøndahl Legacy, Volume 1 [Danacord]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/launy2.jpg)
Aug 15, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Danish conductor Launy Grøndahl (1896-1960, he was also a violinist in his younger days, and later a composer) is most associated, between 1925 and 1956, with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra (as it was known then), the band featured on this Danacord release. I...
![Carl Nielsen’s music for The Mother [Dacapo]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/nielsen-1080x675.jpg)
Aug 15, 2020 | Recording Reviews
“Carl Nielsen’s incidental music for The Mother was written for a gala celebrating the reunification, in 1920, of Southern Jutland with Denmark – one of the most important events in Denmark in the 20th century. The Royal Theatre commissioned the...
![Post #750: Edward Cowie – Concerto for Orchestra & Clarinet Concerto No.2 – Alan Hacker/Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Howard Williams [Métier]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cowie-1080x675.jpg)
Aug 14, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Previously a Hyperion LP, and now a Metier CD, here returned to the catalogue are two vivid scores by Edward Cowie (born 1943 in Birmingham), each lasting twenty-two minutes and both demanding of performers and listeners, if thoroughly worthwhile. Both works are new...
![RELEASED TODAY, August 14: John Williams in Vienna – A selection of film scores – Wiener Philharmoniker & Anne-Sophie Mutter [Deutsche Grammophon]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/john.jpg)
Aug 14, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Previously published on July 30 January this year, Goldener Saal der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna, eighty-seven-year-old John Williams conducts the Philharmonic in some of his movie music, Deutsche Grammophon captures the occasion in sumptuous, vivid and...
Aug 13, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Think of American composer, teacher and pianist Harold Shapero (1920-2013) and maybe the first piece of his that comes to mind is Symphony for Classical Orchestra (1947) as recorded by Bernstein and Previn. From BMOP here is an engagingly quirky Sinfonia in C-minor...
