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By Paul E. Robinson on June 13, 2015
On this DVD, Barbara Hannigan takes on this dual role with the excellent Mahler Chamber Orchestra in a concert recorded live at the 2014 Lucerne Festival.
(Continue reading)By Paul E. Robinson on June 7, 2015
Paul E. Robinson compares two Bruckner CD's with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski.
(Continue reading)By Paul E. Robinson on May 31, 2015
Grigory Sokolov's debut recital on Deutsche Grammophon: some of the finest piano recordings one could ever hope to hear.
(Continue reading)By Paul E. Robinson on May 11, 2015
Although Enescu never received the adulation he deserved for his music during his lifetime, in recent years his music is being “rediscovered”, as it were, and these two new recordings should help to move along the Enescu revival.
(Continue reading)By Paul E. Robinson on May 3, 2015
Schumann: Violin Concerto: Isabelle Faust, violin. Jean-Guihen-Queyras, cello. Alexander Melnikov, piano. Freiburger Barockorchester/Pablo Heras-Casado. Harmonia Mundi
(Continue reading)By Paul E. Robinson on April 12, 2015
Review: Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique Op. 14. Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
(Continue reading)By Paul E. Robinson on April 4, 2015
Very few recordings I’ve heard in recent months have given me as much pleasure as this one. While Dvořák is one of my favourite composers, the Violin Concerto has always seemed to me more impressive on paper (score) than in live performance or on a recording...
(Continue reading)By Paul E. Robinson on March 28, 2015
Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt has played so much Bach and played it so well she has become known as one of the great Bach players of her time. In fact, her Bach reputation is so great that it is often assumed that she plays little else. Nothing could be further from the truth and this new CD provides conclusive evidence...
(Continue reading)By Paul E. Robinson on March 19, 2015
These performances were recorded live during the Pull Out All the Stops Festival launching the refurbished Royal Festival Hall organ, fully operational again for the first time since 2005. The organ sounds terrific and the performances are first-rate...
(Continue reading)By Paul E. Robinson on March 14, 2015
Elgar is practically part of the DNA of a certain group of Canadian classical music lovers; it goes with their Anglo-Saxon heritage and recognition of the Queen of England as their sovereign. For many classical music lovers in the United States and beyond, it is a different matter. Elgar’s music, while regularly programmed by British orchestras, was never widely performed or appreciated in the USA or Europe in the past and that is still the case today...
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