Jul 2, 2023 | Record of the Month [category w.e.f. July 2021]
The first recording of George Gershwin’s An American in Paris, made on February 4, 1929, Nathaniel Shilkret conducting the Victor Symphony Orchestra with the composer playing celesta… … and there have been numerous impressive Americans in Paris since...
May 31, 2023 | Record of the Month [category w.e.f. July 2021]
Stephen Rinker, BBC Philharmonic recording engineer, assisted by three guests for a forthcoming Chandos Eric Coates release (the just-issued Volume 3 is included below). The photo of Stephen taken by producer Brian Pidgeon. Working backwards through May’s Recording...
May 1, 2023 | Record of the Month [category w.e.f. July 2021]
Piano priorities: I wouldn’t want to be without… the infectious variety of Piers Lane being in town again, https://www.colinscolumn.com/hyperion-releases-piers-lane-goes-to-town-again/, moreish Mendelssohn,...
Mar 31, 2023 | Record of the Month [category w.e.f. July 2021]
Kurt Sanderling (1912-2011), right, with Dmitri Shostakovich Seong-Jin Cho’s Handel and Brahms got March off to a wonderful start, http://www.colinscolumn.com/seong-jin-cho-records-the-handel-project-for-deutsche-grammophon/, and piano music from DG continued with...
Mar 7, 2023 | Record of the Month [category w.e.f. July 2021]
Symphonies and Sonatas. High-bred music that communicates vividly, certainly in the following choices, such as Shostakovich’s Twelfth & Fifteenth Symphonies as recorded by the BBC Phil & John Storgårds for Chandos,...
Jan 31, 2023 | Record of the Month [category w.e.f. July 2021]
“Paris – La Nuit” by Henri Royet, c.1885 My January choices come as a trio, beginning with Paavo Järvi’s impressive conducting of Bruckner Seven, a very recommendable version in what is a crowded market,...
