![Gregory Rose Orchestral Music [Toccata Classics]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/TOCC-0558cover-400x400-1.jpg)
Apr 13, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Composer-conductor-teacher (Singcircle, Jupiter Orchestra, Trinity Laban) Gregory Rose (born 1948) makes it on to the ever-enterprising Toccata Classics label, run by Martin Anderson (who is not a relation of yours truly, even if one of our mutual friends, Elizabeth,...
Apr 13, 2020 | Recording Reviews
For its own label the LPO has dug deep into its archive for two Mehta-conducted performances: 26 January 1988 for Richard Strauss’s Symphonia Domestica and 9 April 1992 for Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, both in the Royal Festival Hall. I was at the Strauss but can’t...
Apr 12, 2020 | Ramblings, Recording Reviews
The plan was to choose one recording per Symphony, but in Numbers 2, 4, 5, 6 & 9 this proved impossible. Symphony 1: Rafael Kubelík/LSO – Deutsche Grammophon 2: Sergiu Celibidache/Munich Philharmonic – Warner Classics … Kubelík/Amsterdam Concertgebouw...
![Jack Liebeck plays the Violin Concertos by Schoenberg & Brahms [Orchid Classics]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Liebeck-WebCover-1080x675.jpg)
Apr 12, 2020 | Recording Reviews
The cover photo captures one man and his dog. The man is Jack Liebeck who couples Schoenberg (first up) and Brahms, their respective Violin Concertos, the former a rarity, the latter an evergreen. Liebeck has already championed Max Bruch’s complete music for violin...
Apr 11, 2020 | Recording Reviews
Christopher Gunning (English composer, born 1944) conducted by Kenneth Woods. This Signum release embraces Gunning’s Symphonies 10, 2 & 12 (in that order) and finds the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in top form under the devoted Woods, superbly recorded in...
Apr 11, 2020 | Recording Reviews
The Discoveries are nine first recordings, all of them with Marche or Marcia in the title. The music of Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842, he was born in Florence and moved to Paris and became a French citizen) was highly regarded during his lifetime, not least by Beethoven,...
