Sep 15, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Previously published on August 22 Unmissable, essential – forgive these buzz words, but they fit this superb release: three masterworks (eighty minutes) captured in exceptional, perfectly balanced, and immediate, sound (June 2022 & Feb 2023) – no...
Sep 3, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Following the Seventh, Paavo Järvi and the Tonhalle Orchestra continue what I assume will become a second Bruckner Symphony cycle for the conductor (following Frankfurt Radio/RCA) with the magnificent Eighth, using Leopold Nowak’s edition. It’s a very...
Jul 30, 2023 | Recording Reviews
The Strasbourg Philharmonic and its music director conjure appropriate dark colours and a tense atmosphere for Shakespeare’s doomed lovers, preparing the way for a passionate and exciting account of Romeo and Juliet, which ebbs and flows expressively and,...
Jul 30, 2023 | Recording Reviews
Following what has become a desirable Fourth Symphony, https://www.colinscolumn.com/vox-audiophile-edition-releases-maurice-abravanel-conducting-tchaikovskys-fourth-symphony-romeo-and-juliet-with-utah-symphony-orchestra/, Naxos, now owners of the Vox label, move on to...
Jul 28, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Originally published on July 9 This showcase for Martin Owen, principal horn BBC Symphony Orchestra, includes Weber’s Concertino, which, following a few bars of orchestral operatic intent, introduces Owen’s mellifluous lyrical phrasing and rich tone – Weber conjures a...
Jul 28, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Originally published on July 21 This very welcome second release completes Leonard Slatkin & St Louis Symphony’s mid-1970s’ survey of George Gershwin’s orchestral music for Vox, this time with solo piano and Jeffrey Siegel. A1 performances in...