Oct 8, 2020 | Concert Reviews
Thursday, October 8, 2020 Wigmore Hall, London Reviewed from live BBC Radio 3 broadcast… Igor Levit opened with the six of Brahms’s eleven for-organ Chorale Preludes (Opus 122, his final music) that were sensitively arranged by Busoni – pieces that confide Brahms’s...
![Marc Laforêt plays Mozart & Chopin [live webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/marc-1023x675.jpg)
Oct 7, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, Poland Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Mentored by Arthur Rubinstein, the French pianist Marc Laforêt studied with Pierre Sancan at the Paris Conservatoire. In 1985 he won the Young Concert Artist International...
![Wigmore Hall – Kirill Gerstein plays Debussy & Liszt [live on BBC Radio 3 & Wigmore livestream]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/kg.jpg)
Oct 3, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Friday, October 2, 2020 Wigmore Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga With a restricted audience and modest early viewing figures (swelling within hours, however, to five times the capacity of the hall) this recital by Kirill Gerstein – Soviet-born,...
![Barbara Hannigan conducts the Göteborgs Symfoniker – Haydn 44 & Mahler 4 [live webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Babs-1080x675.jpeg)
Oct 1, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Videos
Thursday, October 1, 2020 Göteborgs Konserthuset, Götaplatsen 8, Gothenburg, Sweden This might be a first: that the soprano singing in the Finale of Mahler 4 was also the conductor. Barbara Hannigan managed both without strain, if too complementary and comfortable to...
![Netherlands Radio Philharmonic – Noa Wildschut plays Saint-Saëns, James Gaffigan conducts Fauré [webcast, released Sept 30]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/noa2.jpg)
Oct 1, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Friday, September 25, 2020 Great Hall, TivoliVredenburg [sic], Utrecht, Netherlands Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga The prodigious Dutch violinist Noa Wildschut is magical. She never fails the occasion. Supremely musical, infinitely unruffled, blessed with golden technique,...
![Christoph Eschenbach conducts the Göteborgs Symfoniker – Schumann’s Second & Beethoven’s Fifth [live webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/esch.jpg)
Sep 27, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Thursday, September 24, 2020 Göteborgs Konserthuset, Götaplatsen 8, Gothenburg, Sweden Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Accelerating second-wave Covid-19 and empty hall notwithstanding, the Gothenburg Symphony, Sweden’s go-getting national orchestra, perseveres nobly, with...
