Mar 5, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Insights, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Soundbites
Guest Writer, Ateş Orga This isn’t going to be one of those bar-by-bar overviews. Nor about who’s worse or better. I have no scores to hand. Just memories and encounters. Gut reactions. Back in the 70s and 80s during the early days of the music...
Dec 13, 2021 | Christmas Collections 2021 ... and into 2022, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Recording Soundbites
That’s Stephen Hough, pianist, who has recorded all of Chopin’s Nocturnes, so many celebrated pieces, https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68351/2, and he has done so most beautifully, aided by top-class recorded sound and exemplary presentation. Hough’s...
Apr 29, 2021 | News, Recording Soundbites
Photograph of Mehta taken in late-January this year during rehearsals with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra At the end of May last year Decca issued a thirty-eight CD set devoted to Mehta’s complete Los Angeles Philharmonic recordings (and he has of course also...
Apr 2, 2021 | Recording Soundbites
Colin Davis’s Beethoven, recorded-in-London for Philips, now branded Decca, is handsomely gathered here, with either the BBC Symphony Orchestra (mostly) or the LSO. Symphonies 1-8 (plus a ‘Choral’ Ninth with Bavarian Radio forces), a selection of Overtures, the Five...
Jan 3, 2021 | Recording Soundbites
Dipping-in to this alluring collection celebrating the recently late Ida Haendel’s artistry is to find a previously unpublished recording of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending, from 1997 with the London Philharmonic and Roger Norrington, something known about for...
Dec 23, 2020 | Christmas Crackers 2020 and then for all seasons, Recording Soundbites
Having gifted us a bumper Barbirolli box, Warner now releases a slender Szell set (fourteen CDs, another Christmas/New Year present contender). Slender because the bulk of Szell’s indispensable discography is here:...
