Sep 20, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Where to start? Faced with four generously filled CDs (each one breaks through eighty minutes) I went first with Mozart’s Fortieth Symphony (K550) from Minneapolis 1952, lithe and alive in the outer movements, spacious in the Andante. Everything else here is in stereo...
Sep 20, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Recorded between 1952 and 1964 this generous compilation of mostly Mercury and Mendelssohn releases opens with a nifty yet not rushed account of the ‘Italian’ Symphony from Minneapolis, all the more enjoyable for the rhythmic precision that Antal Dorati (1906-82)...
Sep 19, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Between them, Alban Gerhardt and Jukka-Pekka Saraste do a grand job on behalf of Shostakovich’s two Rostropovich-centric Cello Concertos (Opuses 107 & 126), the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra (WDR) also proving to be a protagonist of distinction. If the opening...
![RELEASED TODAY, September 4: Philharmonia Orchestra – Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducts selections from Swan Lake [Signum]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/swan-711x675.jpg)
Sep 4, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Previously published on August 22 as Post #800 Tchaikovsky’s score for Swan Lake lasts around two-and-a-half hours (Rozhdestvensky’s Melodiya recording of it supreme) and consists of various numbers. From the Philharmonia and its Chief Conductor designate...
![RELEASED TODAY, August 28: Piano Quintets by Frédéric d’Erlanger and Thomas Dunhill – Piers Lane & Goldner String Quartet [Hyperion]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/dunhill-700x675.png)
Aug 28, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Previously published on August 16 (as Recording Review #100) Frédéric d’Erlanger (1868-1943) and Thomas Dunhill (1877-1946) each wrote a Piano Quintet (respectively 1901 and 1904), both are in four movements (the firsts of which call for an exposition repeat) and last...
![RELEASED TODAY, August 28: Jörg Widmann records Weber [Alpha Classics]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/jorg2-1080x675.jpg)
Aug 28, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Previously published on August 24 Jörg Widmann as clarinettist (he’s also a composer and a conductor) takes on Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826) and wins. Not that it’s a pugilistic contest, more a challenge for the soloist, especially in the bravura writing in the...
