May 21, 2022 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
May 4, 1986, Royal Festival Hall – a hot ticket occasion, no doubt, but off of my radar of remembrance, so whether the complete evening is here, I know not, although at seventy-seven minutes there is little room on the disc for much else, for the first items are five...
May 16, 2022 | Recording Reviews
October 11, 1934 – premiere of Kurt Weill’s Second Symphony, Bruno Walter conducting the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra November 21, 1937 – premiere of Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, Yevgeny Mravinsky conducting the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra Tension and...
May 15, 2022 | Recording Reviews
Quite a discovery this hour-long song-cycle by Swiss-born Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957). Elegie (Opus 36) dates from 1922 and consists of twenty-four Lieder, mostly of poems by Nikolaus Lenau with six by Joseph von Eichendorff, for baritone and chamber orchestra....
May 13, 2022 | Recording Reviews
Originally published on April 17 Following http://www.colinscolumn.com/herbert-blomstedt-records-brahms-in-leipzig-for-pentatone/ and http://www.colinscolumn.com/herbert-blomstedt-records-brahms-2-academic-festival-in-leipzig-for-pentatone/, Herbert Blomstedt and the...
May 10, 2022 | Recording Reviews, Videos
A frisson can be created for the listener, especially when tasked with a review, when contemplating a complete cycle, such as recently with Klaus Mäkelä’s Sibelius,...
May 9, 2022 | Recording Reviews
The ominous depth of the lower strings at the Symphony’s beginning promises much, and for the most part is fulfilled; indeed the opening Moderato – treated as Adagio by Tugan Sokhiev – is wholly gripping: darkly announced with subtle dynamics and achingly expressed as...
