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...
![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...
