![Louis Lortie records Saint-Saens’s Piano Concertos 3 & 5 [Chandos]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/lortie-1080x675.jpg)
May 19, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Louis Lortie completes his survey for Chandos of Camille Saint-Saëns’s five Piano Concertos, the composer a virtuoso of the instrument. The E-flat No.3 (1869) opens like a sunrise, the first movement alternating between bravura incident and a blissful second subject,...
![London Philharmonic Orchestra – Penderecki [LPO own label]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/lpo-1080x675.jpg)
May 19, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Krzysztof Penderecki died at the end of March aged eighty-six. In his later years, as well as breaking away from his avant-garde compositional style for something neo-Romantic, he developed a conducting career for his own and other composers’ music. With the LPO he...
![Ivan Ilić records Morton Feldman’s For Bunita Marcus [Paraty Productions]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/feld-900x675.jpg)
May 19, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Sound and Silence – equally important in music – and American composer Morton Feldman (1926-87) exploited both. Typically, in titular terms, For Bunita Marcus (1985) is dedicated to someone in his life, in this case a composition student at Buffalo University. Marcus...
![Post #150: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet records Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Piano Concertos 5, 6, 8 & 9 – “Mozart, made in Manchester”, Volume 5 [Chandos]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/bav-1-1080x675.jpg)
May 16, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Mozart’s first four original Piano Concertos (those that are the first four are adaptations of other composers’ pieces, while the not-included-here No.7 is the Concerto for Three Pianos, K242) are delivered handsomely by Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. He doesn’t hang around in...
![The Leipzig Circle – Schumann, Gade, Mendelssohn – Phoenix Piano Trio [Stone Records]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/LeipzigCircle.jpg)
May 14, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Robert Schumann’s F-major Piano Trio (Opus 80) opens this Leipzig-centric recording with a burst of energy that takes the listener along with it, and also establishes the Phoenix Piano Trio (Jonathan Stone, violin, Christian Elliott, cello, and Sholto Kynoch) as an...
![To the Spring – Elena Urioste & Tom Poster record Grieg [Orchid Classics]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Elena-Tom-WebCover-1080x675.jpg)
May 14, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Edvard Grieg’s three Sonatas for Violin and Piano (F-major, Opus 8; G-major, Opus 13; C-minor, Opus 45) offer a range of emotions and moods – intimate to impassioned, soulful to scurrying, dramatic to dancing – the composer also including indigenous (Norwegian)...
