Jul 14, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Ramblings, Recording Reviews, Videos
Some background to this recording: Hilary Hahn announces new recording of Eugène Ysaÿe’s Six Sonatas for solo violin, to be released July 14 on Deutsche Grammophon. A few thoughts from me: I am no expert regarding these Six Sonatas (dedicated respectively to Szigeti,...
Jul 8, 2023 | Recording Reviews
Conductor and composer enjoyed a harmonious relationship over several decades. These concert recordings from the mid-1950s – all Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the Royal Festival Hall, three evenings – report Sir Thomas’s particular manner with Richard Strauss’s...
Jul 7, 2023 | Guest Contributors, Recording Reviews
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/article/the-joy-of-listening-to-historical-recordings-the-thrill-of-the-old-is-easily-as-significant-as-the-thrill-of-the-new Plus my own little corner of historical recordings (a random selection of ten in no order or preference,...
Jul 7, 2023 | Recording Reviews
Pinned post, review in progress: please keep checking in for updates A companion to this, https://www.colinscolumn.com/eloquence-releases-antal-dorati-the-mercury-masters-the-mono-recordings/, and constituted thus,...
Jun 30, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
Mikko Franck leads his Paris-based Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in a good La mer, rewarding first time through and to return to, flowing and fluid, volatile (second movement), dramatic (third – if without the ad lib fanfares, although one’s inner ear adds...
Jun 30, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Reviews
During 2011 Hans Sorensen was busy on behalf of Bernard Herrmann (1911-75), compiling a ‘Suite from’ Herrmann’s ambitious Lyric Drama, Wuthering Heights, based on Emily Brontë’s novel, as well as adapting Herrmann’s string quartet, Echoes, for string orchestra....
