Nov 3, 2024 | Christmas Recommendations 2024, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Soundbites
“For five decades Wolfgang Sawallisch (1923-2013) held a central position in the musical world. That centrality was reflected in a series of top orchestral and operatic posts and in his interpretations, free of self-regarding eccentricities. His modest but...
Jan 19, 2024 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Soundbites
Originally published on December 12 This very desirable set pays tribute to a notable conductor, Paavo Berglund, 1929-2012, whose tenure (1972-79) of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra yielded numerous recording sessions – not least Symphonies by Franck,...
Dec 20, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Soundbites
This is but a report, for although this set was released just a few months ago (in May) Decca seems to have deleted it – one mail-order site says so, another isn’t showing it at all, while others advise “out of stock” (lucky those who purchased...
Dec 20, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Soundbites
“At the age of 9, he made his conducting debut with the LA Philharmonic, and at 11 Toscanini invited him to conduct the NBC Symphony Orchestra: Lorin Maazel is undoubtedly one of the greatest conductors of his century. His first album with Deutsche Grammophon...
Dec 15, 2023 | Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Soundbites
A huge embrace for this set of deeply impressive performances, relevant rather than historical, a lifetime’s listening, made all the more bountiful by the superb remastering (once again, as in Otto Klemperer Volume One) of the master-tapes – the...
Jul 11, 2023 | Ramblings, Recording Soundbites
I am grateful to Edward Clark for leaving a Comment on this post, https://www.colinscolumn.com/junes-recording-highlights/, regarding Maurice Abravanel’s Sibelius Cycle, recorded 1977 for Vanguard. Luckily, I have tracked down a complete set on the (American) Musical...
