![Inbal Segev records Anna Clyne & Edward Elgar – Marin Alsop conducts the LPO [Avie]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/inbal.jpg)
Jun 28, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Another day, another Elgar Cello Concerto – over-exposure has diminished the composer’s confiding and melancholic expression. I listen to it rarely and when I do I have two first-choice recordings, coincidentally featuring the Philharmonia Orchestra – Steven Isserlis...
![RELEASED TODAY, June 26: The Romantic Piano Concerto #81 – Piers Lane records Arnold Bax, Arthur Bliss & Edmund Rubbra [Hyperion]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/piers-700x675.png)
Jun 26, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Originally published on June 14 Blimey! New recordings of the Piano Concertos by Bliss and Rubbra; music-lovers in the Shires will be whooping it up. I thought I’d flag this one up early – Hyperion’s release date isn’t until June 26 when I shall re-publish this...
![RELEASED TODAY, June 26: Marc Albrecht conducts Alexander von Zemlinsky – Die Seejungfrau [Pentatone]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/zem.png)
Jun 26, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Originally published on May 23 It’s apt that this review of Zemlinsky’s The Mermaid should sit adjacently to coverage of Schoenberg’s Pelleas und Melisande, for not only were the men brothers-in-law (Schoenberg married Zemlinsky’s sister) but, more pertinently, both...
![Beethoven 250 – The Nine Symphonies – Robert Trevino conducts the Malmö Symphony Orchestra [Ondine]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/trv3.jpg)
Jun 22, 2020 | Recording Reviews
All done on Sunday June 21, when the postman won’t knock once let alone twice and phone-calls and emails should be fewer – Beethoven’s Nine Symphonies listened to in numerical order, assisted by Ondine’s sequential presentation, a keenly anticipated project for yours...
![Music by José Serebrier [BIS]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Jose.jpg)
Jun 22, 2020 | Recording Reviews
José Serebrier’s music is full of invention and ingenuity, and with no lack of titular invitation either. On this BIS release, including first recordings and reissues, there are eight Serebrier pieces, mostly conducted by the composer, which make for a varied and...
![Sonatas for Cello and Piano by Prokofiev and Rachmaninov – Hee-Young Lim & Nathalia Milstein (Sony Classical]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/hee.jpg)
Jun 20, 2020 | Recording Reviews
If you turn initially to track five, the first movement of Prokofiev’s Cello Sonata (in C, Opus 119), then you get the full richness of Hee-Young Lim’s deep and resonant tone. Impressive and arresting if partly due to her being closely balanced – Nathalia Milstein’s...
