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Colin’s Column

31 May 2023
May’s Recording Highlights.

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Stephen Rinker, BBC Philharmonic recording engineer, assisted by three guests for a forthcoming
Chandos Eric Coates release (the just-issued Volume 3 is included below). The photo of Stephen
taken by producer Brian Pidgeon.

Working backwards through May’s Recording Reviews finds me enthusing about Blomstedt’s
Bruckner, https://www.colinscolumn.com/herbert-blomstedt-gewandhausorchester-leipzig-
record-bruckner-the-nine-symphonies-for-accentus-music/, and also Isata Kanneh-Mason’s
“Childhood Tales” release, https://www.colinscolumn.com/isata-kanneh-mason-records-
childhood-tales-for-decca/, including Dohnányi’s brilliantly inventive Nursery Song Variations, as
well as Debussy, Mozart and Schumann.

I slightly hesitated to tag as ‘Outstanding’ John Wilson’s third volume of Eric Coates, due to some
rushed tempos, but the BBC Phil’s zesty and delicate playing is infectious and (hence the photo)
Stephen Rinker’s recorded sound is quite superb, and I have returned numerous times to this
release with much pleasure, https://www.colinscolumn.com/chandos-releases-volume-3-of-eric-
coatess-orchestral-works-with-bbc-philharmonic-john-wilson/, as I have Tchaikovsky from
Glasgow, also hesitantly tagged, yet Voyevoda and Tempest are magnetic, captured by Ralph
Couzens’s complete engineering, https://www.colinscolumn.com/alpesh-chauhan-bbc-scottish-
symphony-orchestra-record-tchaikovsky-for-chandos/.