![Paul Lewis records Beethoven’s Bagatelles [Harmonia Mundi]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/lewis.jpg)
Jul 20, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Not trifles, for these Bagatelles, kleine klavierstücke, are by Beethoven and treated as piano royalty by Paul Lewis, with affection, and insight as to any profundity contained within these seemingly innocent short forms. There are twenty-four in total divided into...
![Orchestral music by Alexander Veprik – BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Christoph-Mathias Mueller [Dabringhaus und Grimm]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/veprik.jpg)
Jul 16, 2020 | Recording Reviews
I am grateful to Rob Cowan for putting me on to this release. There is a distinctive musical voice here. If you’d like to know more about Alexander Veprik, his Wiki page is linked to below. But while Dabringhaus and Wiki agree that Veprik died in 1958, the former...
![Luiza Borac records Constantin Silvestri’s Complete Piano Works [Profil]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/borac2.jpg)
Jul 13, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Constantin Silvestri (1913-69) is best-remembered as a conductor, in his final years of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, with which he recorded, as he also did with ensembles in Paris, London and Vienna. He found time to compose. There are, I think, a couple of...
![Sarah Beth Briggs – The Austrian Connection [Avie]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/beth.jpg)
Jul 12, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Meet Sarah Beth Briggs, born 1972 in Newcastle upon Tyne, and a young pupil of Denis Matthews (who died in 1988). She is no stranger to awards or the recording studio, and I hope this first time for me to listen to her musicianship won’t be the last. The opening...
![Francis Pott: At First Light | Word – Commotio/Matthew Berry [Naxos]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/pott-1080x675.jpg)
Jul 10, 2020 | Guest Contributors, Recording Reviews
Guest Reviewer, David Truslove This release is the second from Naxos devoted to Francis Pott, born 1957, a British composer whose highly personal choral writing is distinctive for its assimilation of Tudor polyphony allied to numerous reminiscences of...
![Beethoven 250: Sonatas for Piano & Violin, Volume One – Huw Watkins & Tamsin Waley-Cohen [Signum Classics]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/sig2.jpg)
Jul 5, 2020 | Recording Reviews
At first I thought the recorded balance did something of a disservice to Huw Watkins’s piano – not because Beethoven gives the instrument pride of place in titular terms, but because these are duo-Sonatas – although I have come to the conclusion that the sound...
