May 2, 2021 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Delightful and stirring music. Vibrant performances. Superb analogue sound. From 1958, 1961 and 1965, recorded in either Walthamstow or Wembley venues, Charles Mackerras and the LSO are scintillating and shapely throughout this tonic-dispensing collection –...
![Brahms does the Double, Beethoven the Triple – Norman Del Mar conducts Concertos with Erling Blöndal Bengtsson, George Malcolm and Manoug Parikian [Danacord]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/dana.jpg)
Apr 25, 2021 | Recording Reviews
Aldeburgh Festival, June 21, 1973. Brahms’s Double Concerto (Opus 102, for Violin and Cello) opens powerfully, cellist Bengtsson introduces himself with virility and rich tone; in response, Parikian (a one-time leader of the Philharmonia Orchestra), is sweet and...
Apr 23, 2021 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Lyrita has been doing its bit for Daniel Jones. This is the fifth issue of his music, specifically the Symphonies, taken from BBC recordings, the conducting shared between Sir Charles Groves and Bryden Thomson. Sadly, I do not have the previous releases (hint!) but on...
Apr 23, 2021 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Originally published on April 22 This glorious account of the Second Symphony continues the seemingly ageless Herbert Blomstedt’s Brahms survey for Pentatone in Leipzig (for the record, he turns ninety-four on July 11). The first movement, spaciously handled, is...
Apr 16, 2021 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Originally published on April 9 If you would like a one-word review, that word is “tremendous”. These great Symphonies (both premiered by Sir Adrian Boult) – respectively written either side of World War Two – have found in Sir Antonio a charismatic and insightful...
![Hilary Hahn – Paris [Deutsche Grammophon]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/hahn.jpg)
Apr 3, 2021 | Recording Reviews
Short on quantity maybe (fifty-three minutes) this mostly impressive release is not wanting for quality. The Poème by Paris-born Ernest Chausson opens arrestingly, potently, with dark lower strings creating atmosphere from which Hilary Hahn’s violin steals-in...
