Jan 31, 2021 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Benjamin Britten’s Frank Bridge Variations (1937, not short of recordings, including by the composer, for Decca, and Karajan for that matter, Philharmonia Orchestra) leaps off the page here, although it could be argued that John Wilson sometimes harries the music and...
Jan 30, 2021 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
It was a wonderful start to the year and is now a permanent fixture of timeless delights. I wrote a few words back then and am now pleased to welcome a release that will be a constant companion. As ever, disappointingly and annoyingly, Sony does not respect the...
![Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich – Paavo Järvi conducts Tchaikovsky’s Winter Daydreams Symphony [live Idagio webcast]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/winter-1080x675.jpg)
Jan 23, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos
Friday, January 22, 2021 Konzertsaal Tonhalle Maag, Zürich, Switzerland Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga In the midst of high-profile cancellations, starved of music-making these past months, hungry to get back, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich under its music director Paavo...
![RELEASED TODAY, January 22: A Vision of the Sea – The music of David Matthews [Signum Classics]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/sea.jpg)
Jan 22, 2021 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Previously published on January 13 Four impressive orchestral works from the pen of Englishman David Matthews (born 1943). In order of disc appearance, the ten-minute Toward Sunrise (Opus 117) is atmospheric and suspenseful, a myriad of details and colours...
