![The World Was Once All Miracle: The music of Raymond Yiu [Delphian]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/yiu.jpg)
Feb 21, 2021 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
It’s good to have a record of some recent orchestral music by Raymond Yiu (born 1973). In these BBC Symphony Orchestra concert tapings (applause removed), the first work, The London Citizen Exceedingly Injured (2012), is a scintillating scherzo, neon-coloured,...
Feb 13, 2021 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Whether the tag of “the English Rachmaninov” helps or hinders the cause of London-born composer and pianist York Bowen (1884-1961; in the mid-1920s he made the first recording of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto) is a moot point. However, as superbly recorded here by...
![Verklärte Nacht – Edward Gardner conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with Christine Rice & Stuart Skelton [Chandos]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/verk.jpg)
Feb 13, 2021 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
The Schoenberg (the composer’s 1943 adaptation for string orchestra of the sextet original) is given a gripping outing, quite fleet (a minute shy of half-an-hour; more-expansive versions are available) and within which images, emotions and incidents are to the fore;...
Feb 7, 2021 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
If, like me, you can’t stand pigeonholing and such things, you’ll also love what David Greilsammer does here. He has chosen nineteen pieces which play uninterruptedly (literally attacca – this is not an album to dip into, rather to be beguiled by instructive...
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...
