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I’m Colin Anderson, a writer on music and the editor of Classical Source.
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Imogen Cooper records “…Le Temps perdu…” for Chandos.
The title owes to Proust. Imogen Cooper, re-exploring pieces she learnt when a teenager in Paris (she explains this in the booklet), opens this eighty-three-minute recital with Ravel’s Valses nobles et sentimentales, establishing that she is very well recorded, with...
John Wilson & Sinfonia of London record music by Maurice Ravel for Chandos.
I started with Boléro (it’s the final item on this eighty-four-minute release). Steady tempo, well-taken solos, well-built crescendo (if too loud too soon) … “première recording of this edition”: antiphonal side-drums alternating, thereby relieving one player’s labour...
Antonio Pappano @ Royal College of Music: conducts Vaughan Williams’s Fifth Symphony; Alim Beisembayev (Leeds Comp winner last year) plays Ravel’s G-major Piano Concerto; also Elizabeth Maconchy’s Nocturne & Arnold Bax’s Tintagel; January 21, 2022; Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urcplk-Uess Good to have Tony Pappano filling the gap between his outstanding LSO recordings of VW 4 & 6, http://www.colinscolumn.com/antonio-pappano-records-vaughan-williamss-symphonies-4-6-for-lso-live/....
![George Szell: 1) conducts The Cleveland Orchestra in Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony (concert, September 28, 1967); 2) interview with John Culshaw (BBC, September 1968, London); 3) conducts Cleveland Orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony (concert at Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, August 16, 1969). [All three are audio only.]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/vulshaw-400x250.jpg)
George Szell: 1) conducts The Cleveland Orchestra in Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony (concert, September 28, 1967); 2) interview with John Culshaw (BBC, September 1968, London); 3) conducts Cleveland Orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony (concert at Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, August 16, 1969). [All three are audio only.]
John Culshaw (1924-80), Decca producer, photographed (right) with Georg Solti I assume the Prokofiev, which post-dates Szell's CBS/Cleveland recording by several years, is from Severance Hall, but as the YouTube poster is Japanese maybe it's from a tour the...
Sad news: Greek-Austrian conductor Karolos Trikolidis – a pupil of Karajan and Swarowsky, among others, and who was music director of the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra for 38 years – has died aged 74. Conducts Verdi in Budapest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35B22ljKV94
![Berliner Philharmoniker – Philippe Jordan conducts Richard Strauss’s Alpensinfonie & Wagner’s Rheingold – Anja Kampe sings Alban Berg’s Altenberg-Lieder [live Digital Concert Hall webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/anja-400x250.jpeg)
Berliner Philharmoniker – Philippe Jordan conducts Richard Strauss’s Alpensinfonie & Wagner’s Rheingold – Anja Kampe sings Alban Berg’s Altenberg-Lieder [live Digital Concert Hall webcast]
Saturday, January 22, 2022 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin If ever I had to choose just one Richard Strauss opus it could certainly be Alpine Symphony. It represents more than the mechanics of climbing a mountain, and it may well chart Life’s...
Nash Ensemble records Chamber Works by Harrison Birtwistle for Bis.
Four choice pieces by Sir Harrison Birtwistle (born 1934) beginning with Trio (for violin/Lawrence Power, cello/Adrian Brendel, and piano/Tim Horton; 2011), a restless fifteen-minute work, its single movement intense, expressive (Expressionist) and gripping in its...
Paul Lewis records Brahms’s Late Piano Works – Opuses 116-119 – for Harmonia Mundi.
Following this, http://www.colinscolumn.com/paul-lewis-plays-beethovens-bagatelles-harmonia-mundi/, and this, http://www.colinscolumn.com/paul-lewis-records-haydn-piano-sonatas-for-harmonia-mundi/, Paul Lewis now turns to Brahms, the twenty pieces that constitute his...
Post #3,400 – ICA Classics releases the Chamber Orchestra of Europe & Nikolaus Harnoncourt performing Beethoven, Brahms, Haydn & Mozart.
Recorded at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw (12/1999) or at the Berlin Philharmonie (4/1996) or during the Styriarte Festival in Graz, Austria (7/1989, 7/1997, 6/1999, 6/2002, 6/2004, 6/2007) Not for a second does one doubt the close bond between the COE and Nikolaus...