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Colin Clarke
Chopin: Études (Avie)
(Déjà Review) Superb Chopin which serves to underline Borac’s excellence [CC]
Sibelius: Symphonies 3 & 6, Stravinsky: Violin Concerto (Avie)
(Déjà Review) A wonderful testament to the talents of the Northern Sinfonia [CC]
JL Adams: the place we began (Cold Blue)
As hypnotic as it is different [CC]
Berg: String Quartet, Lyric Suite; Wolf: Italian Serenade (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Interpretative stature and technical prowess [CC]
Chopin: Piano Sonata No 2, Scherzi (Warner Classics)
A must-hear experience [CC]
Shostakovich & Prokofiev: String Quartets (Nimbus)
(Déjà Review) How wonderful to see Nimbus demonstrating all its strengths in this superb issue [CC]
Donizetti: Songs (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) A simply gorgeous selection of songs [CC]
Bartók: Piano Sonatas (Sony Classical)
(Déjà Review) It is difficult to imagine a better introduction to the piano music of Bartók than this splendid disc [CC]
Schoenberg: Complete Works for Violin and Piano (BIS)
(Déjà Review) A valuable and involving musical experience that far outreaches the purely musicological [CC]
Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane, Symphony No.3 (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) This carves a niche firmly for itself on any serious record collector’s shelves [CC]
Rossini: La pietra del paragone (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) A multitude of thanks are due to Naxos for this, proof positive that there is infinite joy to be gleaned from Rossinian by-roads [CC]
Mathias: Ave Rex, Elegy for a Prince, This Worlde’s Joie (Lyrita)
(Déjà Review) Recordings that do the greatest of service to Mathias’s music [CC]
Feinberg: Piano Sonatas Nos 1-6 (BIS)
Revelatory – hypnotic in the extreme, close to Scriabin in mystical mode [CC]
JC Bach & CPE Bach: Orchestral Music (Harmonia Mundi)
(Déjà Review) A real success here, then, from all angles [CC]
Corigliano: Symphony 2 (Chandos)
This new version of the Second Symphony now takes pride of place on the Corigliano part of the shelf [CC]
Holst: Orchestral Works (Lyrita)
Some remarkable finds here [CC]
Chopin: Preludes & Impromptus (Warner Classics)
Cortot’s playing almost always convinces one that his is the true way [CC]
Beethoven, Bartók & Brahms: Perspectives 2 (Avie)
(Déjà Review) Sequels rarely live up to the promise of the original, but here is an exception [CC]
Arnold: Symphony 4 (Lyrita)
Riches to be discovered here [CC]
Beethoven: Piano Concerti No.4-5 (Regis)
(Déjà Review) Classic accounts of Beethoven that demand to be heard [CC]
Mozart: Piano Concerti No.17, 21 (Deutsche Grammophon)
(Déjà Review) Tremendous, life-affirming Mozart playing, marking Pollini’s welcome return to this territory [CC]
Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Scriabin: Piano Sonatas; Stravinsky: Serenade (ECM)
(Déjà Review) An absolutely tremendous disc, from all angles [CC]
Beethoven: Piano Concertos No 1 & 5 (RCA)
(Déjà Review) This disc enjoys the privilege of being one of the worst I have heard for many a moon [CC]
Telemann: Don Quixote Suite (Naxos)
(Déjà Review) Pure delight, this. Buy it [KS] – Thoroughly enjoyable fare. This is a most approachable coupling. [CC]
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