Hi,
I’m Colin Anderson, a writer on music and the editor of Classical Source.
Welcome to my Column, a bit of a blog: news, reviews, things to watch, and other posts to read; a mix of things. I hope you like the contents.
Cheers, Col
Magical Musical Moments. What might yours be?
Pinned post Here's Perry Como to set the scene... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ_hWTuSYSk Anything you like, any genre/occasion, concerts/recordings, revelatory/remarkable ... bagpipe recital in kitchen. Mine, of many, would include - first off - being entranced...
BBC Proms 2022 Programme Revealed.
Pinned post https://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/events/by/date/2022 Return of international orchestras, BBC centenary celebrations and more Proms than ever across the UK 2022 sees the BBC Proms restored to its full eight-week glory: 84 concerts over 57 days with over 3,000...
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Berliner Philharmoniker – Simon Rattle conducts Haydn 102 & his own Stravinsky Journey [live Digital Concert Hall webcast].
Saturday, May 21, 2022 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Haydn’s B-flat Symphony 102 occupied the first half. With the Berlin strings appropriately laid out, led (I'm pretty sure) by Rainer Honeck from the Vienna Philharmonic – antiphonal...
London Festival of Baroque Music – Monteverdi’s Vespers; Choir of Westminster Abbey & St James’s Baroque conducted by James O’Donnell.
Thursday, May 19, 2022 Westminster Abbey, London Guest Reviewer, Curtis Rogers Monteverdi’s Vespers have become indelibly associated with Venice (the theme of this year’s London Festival of Baroque Music) on account of the composer’s long association with the...
Many Happy Returns to composer, conductor and oboist Heinz Holliger, 83 today. Conducts his own Atembogen and plays Richard Strauss’s Oboe Concerto (if incomplete; final measures missing!).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNltP6WTPxE Holliger conducts his Atembogen; WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne; January 20, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCP95VyXycg Holliger plays and directs Richard Strauss's Oboe Concerto with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe;...
Column post #4,300: London Philharmonic Orchestra releases a concert of Richard Strauss’s music conducted by Klaus Tennstedt with Jessye Norman as Salome.
May 4, 1986, Royal Festival Hall – a hot ticket occasion, no doubt, but off of my radar of remembrance, so whether the complete evening is here, I know not, although at seventy-seven minutes there is little room on the disc for much else, for the first items are five...
Music streaming software unveiled at Opera America conference.
(May 2022)—Today, May 20, Cerise Jacobs and her activist opera company, White Snake Projects (WSP), roll out a Special Access Early Release of their Tutti Remote software in a spotlight presentation at OPERA America’s Opera...
The Academy of St Martin in the Fields is delighted to announce the appointment of Annie Lydford as its new Chief Executive.
Annie Lydford joins the Academy from Nevill Holt Opera, where she has been Managing Director for threeseasons. She will take up the role on 12 September 2022. Prior to that, Annie was Director of Communicationsand Marketing at the Creative Industries Federation, and...
Munich Philharmonic – Celibidache conducts Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony and Stravinsky’s 1919 Firebird Suite – on the Münchner Philharmoniker’s MPHIL label.
Celibidache’s conducting of Sibelius Five is indeed of “tremendous power and vision”. This performance from March 26, 1988 (Philharmonie im Gasteig) is not to be confused with a later account of the work (November 8, 1992;...
New album ‘Tristan’ from Igor Levit announced today; to be released on September 9.
(May 20 Berlin) Sony Classical announces the release of the new album from pianist Igor Levit. ‘Tristan’ will be released on September 9, 2022. It follows last year’s acclaimed recording ‘ON DSCH’ that was recently awarded BBC Music Magazine’s...
Live Music Now celebrates 45th anniversary with BBC Radio 4 appeal.
UK MUSIC CHARITY ‘LIVE MUSIC NOW’ CELEBRATES 45 YEARS OF SOCIAL IMPACT WITH BBC RADIO 4 APPEAL PRESENTED BY CLEMENCY BURTON-HILL Live Music Now musician Zoe Wren © Ivan Gonzalez Live Music Now, the UK charity that helps excluded and disadvantaged people through...