Dec 17, 2021 | Christmas Collections 2021 ... and into 2022, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Saturday April 8, 2017: I was there! https://www.classicalsource.com/concert/belief-beyond-belief-london-philharmonic-orchestra-vladimir-jurowski-spem-in-alium-symphony-of-a-thousand/. And here now is that M8 on record, in very good sound, a just balance of the...
Dec 16, 2021 | Christmas Collections 2021 ... and into 2022, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
With up-front sound – not a note missed in Marlborough College, Wiltshire (4/2021) – Dukes & Donohoe give us Brahms’s alternative viola versions of his Opus 120 pair of Clarinet Sonatas. These are magnetic accounts, Dukes rich-toned, shapely and intense, Donohoe...
Dec 16, 2021 | Christmas Collections 2021 ... and into 2022, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Messrs Collins & Hough prove to be a dream-team in Brahms’s Opus 120 – the Two Sonatas for Clarinet & Piano. With well-balanced and unrestricted sound (Henry Wood Hall, London, 6/2020) the music’s intimacies, passions and dynamism are persuasively wrought in...
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...
Dec 12, 2021 | Christmas Collections 2021 ... and into 2022, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Alpha has already released Symphonies 2 & 4, http://www.colinscolumn.com/tonhalle-orchester-zurich-paavo-jarvi-record-tchaikovsky-2-4-for-alpha/, and the Fifth, http://www.colinscolumn.com/tonhalle-orchester-zurich-paavo-jarvi-record-tchaikovsky-for-alpha/. Now...
Dec 6, 2021 | Christmas Collections 2021 ... and into 2022, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
This distinguished and generous collection should appeal to the seasoned listener and also to the fledgling music-lover. (Ideal Christmas present!) Showcasing LSO principal players present and past, each performance offers many pleasures, including Timothy Jones in...
