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
Can it be true? BBC Radio 4 Extra to be scrapped? If so, it’s insane & criminal. A petition has been started.
Pinned post Such truths or rumours presumably stem from this... http://www.colinscolumn.com/bbc-director-general-tim-davies-speech-to-staff-on-26-may-2022/ Andrew Keener has started a petition:...
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...
The Fourth of July: American Independence Day. Charles Ives’s eponymous piece and John Philip Sousa’s The Stars and Stripes Forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRzRKWMxf7g Ives 'The Fourth of July', III from A Symphony, New England Holidays. New York Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein (CBS/Sony). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xDz1iRRorM Sousa. "The President's Own" United States Marine...
![Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin at Kissinger Sommer Internationales Musikfestival – Kent Nagano conducts Schubert, Nikolai Lugansky plays Brahms [live webcast].](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/lugansky2-400x250.jpg)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin at Kissinger Sommer Internationales Musikfestival – Kent Nagano conducts Schubert, Nikolai Lugansky plays Brahms [live webcast].
Sunday, July 3, 2022 Max-Littmann-Saal, Bad Kissingen, Bavaria The concert opened with Schubert's Fifth Symphony, a sprightly yet elegant first movement with edgily prominent horns and details in the strings that often remain buried. The slow movement was especially...
Sad news: theatre, film and, in his earliest days, opera director Peter Brook has died aged 97.
![Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine & National Youth Orchestra of Germany – Berlin concert conducted by Artem Lonhinov – Beethoven, Lyatoshynsky, Dvořák [live Digital Concert Hall webcast].](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/artem-400x250.jpg)
Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine & National Youth Orchestra of Germany – Berlin concert conducted by Artem Lonhinov – Beethoven, Lyatoshynsky, Dvořák [live Digital Concert Hall webcast].
Sunday, July 3, 2022 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin This collaboration was scheduled for May in Odesa but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine put paid to that. Now in Berlin, fifty members of the YSO of Ukraine and thirty from the NYP of Germany...
Pierre Boulez & The Cleveland Orchestra – Handel’s Concerto HWV318 & Schubert’s Sixth Symphony. 85th-birthday greetings. Tributes on his passing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_siZu4p2e0 Handel C-major Concerto Grosso HWV318 (Alexander’s Feast); July 30, 1970. [Boulez photographed with George Szell.] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnMM3lZLDQU Schubert Symphony No.6; November 9, 1967....
Many Happy Returns to Brigitte Fassbaender, 83 today. Sings Schumann’s Frauenliebe und -leben with Erik Werba at 1977 Salzburg Festival.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgsnXshPYdw https://www.classicalsource.com/cd/munich-philharmonic-sergiu-celibidache-conducts-death-and-transfiguration-brigitte-fassbaender-sings-kindertotenlieder-munchner-philharmoniker-archive/
Leif Ove Andsnes & Mahler Chamber Orchestra record Mozart Momentum 1786 for Sony Classical.
The Momentum continues, Mozart in 1786, Leif Ove Andsnes including a rumbustious account of the D-major Rondo K485, as lively as you could want, and then with Matthew Truscott and Frank-Michael Guthmann the B-flat Piano Trio K502 in a spontaneous, nicely interplayed...
Sad news: Martin Dreiwitz, who founded the Long Island Youth Orchestra in 1962 and conducted it for fifty years, has died at the age of 91.
Alan Rawsthorne’s Street Corner Overture.
A friend has just reminded me about Street Corner, Alan Rawsthorne's bustling piece (1944) that seems to have fallen by the wayside, like so many overtures and short pieces, sadly. My friend sent me a link to Constantin Silvestri conducting it (beginning a 1968...