May 23, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Insights, Recording Soundbites
Guest Writer, Ateş Orga A hundred years ago the BBC’s core founding values – to inform, educate and entertain, in that order (John Reith was exacting) – made for a distinctive kind of promotion and programming continuing well beyond the Second World War....
Mar 11, 2022 | News, Recording Soundbites
I am trying something a little different with this post: giving advance notice of new releases, starting with Hyperion’s schedule for April. I have the discs already and have been dipping in and, below, are a few comments of first encounters. If the words are...
Mar 5, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Insights, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Soundbites
Guest Writer, Ateş Orga This isn’t going to be one of those bar-by-bar overviews. Nor about who’s worse or better. I have no scores to hand. Just memories and encounters. Gut reactions. Back in the 70s and 80s during the early days of the music...
Dec 13, 2021 | Christmas Collections 2021 ... and into 2022, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Soundbites
That’s Stephen Hough, pianist, who has recorded all of Chopin’s Nocturnes, so many celebrated pieces, https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68351/2, and he has done so most beautifully, aided by top-class recorded sound and exemplary presentation. Hough’s...
Apr 29, 2021 | News, Recording Soundbites
Photograph of Mehta taken in late-January this year during rehearsals with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra At the end of May last year Decca issued a thirty-eight CD set devoted to Mehta’s complete Los Angeles Philharmonic recordings (and he has of course also...
Apr 2, 2021 | Recording Soundbites
Colin Davis’s Beethoven, recorded-in-London for Philips, now branded Decca, is handsomely gathered here, with either the BBC Symphony Orchestra (mostly) or the LSO. Symphonies 1-8 (plus a ‘Choral’ Ninth with Bavarian Radio forces), a selection of Overtures, the Five...
