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I’m Colin Anderson, a writer on music and the editor of Classical Source.
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Paul Lewis records Haydn Piano Sonatas for Harmonia Mundi.
Delightful, eloquent, witty, fired-up, capricious, profound, mercurial … Haydn’s music does all these things, and more, during this CD’s sixty-seven minutes. Paul Lewis is exploring Haydn’s Piano Sonatas – this is Volume Two – and includes four of them here: C-minor...
Muti extends contract with Chicago Symphony through 2022-23.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association (CSOA) is very pleased to announce that Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti’s contract has been extended through the 2022-23 season. Muti became the tenth music director of the Chicago Symphony...
The Cleveland Orchestra’s Principal Keyboard, Joela Jones, to be honored with Distinguished Service Award.
Award to be presented the evening of Thursday, October 14, 2021Her final performances as principal keyboard will take place on October 14 & 17Watch a special video about Jones and listen to a playlist of her most memorable performances...
Leeds International Piano Competition Prize Winner EP release.
Warner Classics releases The Leeds International Piano Competition 2021 – Gold Medal Winner, a digital-only live recording of Alim Beisembayev's prize-winning performances Alim Beisembayev , the 23-year-old pianist from Kazakhstan, won the 20th edition of the...
The Elgar Festival returns live to Worcester 29-31 October 2021.
An annual celebration of the great British composerlive, in and around Worcester, the city of his birth‘The Elgar Festival’, this year taking place over 29 – 31 October, is an annual celebration of the life and music of Worcester’s most famous son and one of Britain’s...
ROH’s Alice’s Adventures Under Ground to return to the small screen this winter.
Gerald BarryFun, furious, frantic, and utterly fantastic - Alice's Adventures Under Ground makes a welcome return to the small screen this winterThe Royal Opera House (ROH) and Irish National Opera (INO) are delighted to announce the broadcast of...
Gafa Arts Collective announce London concert performance of Wagner’s monumental Ring Cycle, incorporating Nordic and Samoan elements through movement. Das Rheingold, 30th October; Die Walküre, 6th November; Siegfried, 13th November; Götterdӓmmerung, 20th November.
Europe’s first Samoan Arts Collective, GAFA, today announced its ambitious plan to present Wagner’s Ring Cycle as concerts with movement incorporating Samoan elements into the Nordic narrative. One performance, in German, of each of the four operas that comprise...
Garrick Ohlsson records Brahms’s Opuses 1, 2 & 79 for Hyperion, Sonatas & Rhapsodies.
With superbly immediate recorded sound courtesy of David Hinitt (November 2019, London) complementing Andrew Keener’s high-end production values, Garrick Ohlsson can totally focus on the first two Piano Sonatas to continue his notable if occasional Brahms series for...
![25th George Enescu Festival – East-West Chamber Orchestra – Rostislav Krimer conducts Mozart’s Symphony No.29, Weinberg’s Chamber Symphony No.2 and Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings, Nicolas Dautricourt plays Frédéric Chaslin’s arrangement of Enescu’s Violin Sonata No.3 [live webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/nic-400x250.jpg)
25th George Enescu Festival – East-West Chamber Orchestra – Rostislav Krimer conducts Mozart’s Symphony No.29, Weinberg’s Chamber Symphony No.2 and Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings, Nicolas Dautricourt plays Frédéric Chaslin’s arrangement of Enescu’s Violin Sonata No.3 [live webcast]
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 Romanian Athenaeum, Strada Benjamin Franklin 1-3, Bucharest 030167, Romania Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Given the high-profile calibre of players and familiar faces in the East-West Chamber Orchestra, an ‘orchestra for peace’ founded in 2015,...