Concert Reviews Archives - Colin's Column

Jukka-Pekka Saraste and the Göteborgs Symfoniker – Shostakovich, Sibelius [live webcast]

Sep 18, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos

Thursday, September 17, 2020 Göteborgs Konserthuset, Götaplatsen 8, Gothenburg, Sweden Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Neither Shostakovich’s Ninth Symphony (1945) nor Sibelius’s Third (1907) lived up to the anticipations of their first audiences. Following the...

Ateş Orga, Festival Wanderer – 6: Musikfest Berlin – Nicolas Altstaedt plays J. S. Bach’s Cello Suites [webcast]

Sep 7, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos

Sunday 6 September 2020, Philharmonie, Berlin Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga There’s never been a shortage of masterworks and profile artists at the Berliner Festspiele/Musikfest Berlin. This year from the ‘New Testament’ Beethoven Piano Sonatas with...

Ateş Orga, Festival Wanderer – 5: Dvořák Prague International Music Festival – Václav Petr, Czech Philharmonic, Semyon Bychkov [live webcast]

Sep 5, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos

Friday 4 September 2020, Dvořák Hall, Rudolfinum, Prague Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Traditionally Smetana and Dvořák are the standby openers of any Czech festival. No surprise then to find this all-Dvořák programme, nor its populist content: the Cello Concerto and...

Ateş Orga, Festival Wanderer – 4: Chopin and His Europe from Beethoven to Chopin – Warsaw – Alena Baeva & Vadym Kholodenko [live webcast]

Aug 26, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos

18 August 2020, Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Befitting their pedigree, Alena Baeva and Vadym Kholodenko have evolved a rewardingly compatible musical partnership in recent years. Interpretatively intense, both are blessed with infallibly...

Ateş Orga, Festival Wanderer – 3: Salzburg-Christian Thielemann-Vienna Philharmonic-Bruckner 4 [live webcast]

Aug 23, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos

22 August 2020, Grosses Festspielhaus Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Christian Thielemann conducting Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony at this year’s Salzburg Festival was always going to be something to wait for. And so the second of his two morning performances in...

Ateş Orga, Festival Wanderer – 2.

Jul 30, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos

Paavo Järvi, pictured Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Pärnu in Estonia, a Baltic resort on an inlet of the Gulf of Riga, is one of those places you read about in other people’s biographies. It’s temperate, lush, beautiful. In Soviet times, David Oistrakh and...