![Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra – Håkan Hardenberger plays Weinberg’s Trumpet Concerto, Andris Nelsons conducts Dvořák’s Sixth Symphony [live webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/HH-582x675.jpg)
Apr 16, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Thursday, April 15, 2021 Konserthuset Stockholm, Hötorget 8, Stockholm, Sweden Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga The resonance of the Konserthuset Stockholm – microphoned through a blend of hard edges, warm mid-tones and bass gravity – provided an appealingly appropriate...
Apr 15, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Videos
Recorded in Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, Sir Mark opens this latest Hallé broadcast with a languorous and sultry Debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune distinguished by fine playing, the music’s half-lights realised magically, the music blossoming organically....
![Berliner Philharmoniker – Kirill Petrenko conducts Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet & Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony [webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/kp.jpg)
Apr 5, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Saturday, March 20, 2021; deferred relay Sunday, April 4, on arte.tv (link below) and Digital Concert Hall Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga This concert was given on March 20 – piloting an audience of a thousand,...
Apr 1, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors
In her Hallé concert debut, assistant conductor Delyana Lazarova exhibits confidence and enthusiasm as well as thoughtful musicianship, opening with Overture by Polish composer and violinist Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-69), colourful and energetic, worth discovering. The...
Mar 26, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Videos
Recorded at Hallé St Peter’s, this concert is an intimate affair, opening with Mozart’s Piano & Wind Quintet. Paul Lewis and four Hallé members (oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon) give a collegiate and mellifluous account of this charming music, notable for Lewis’s...
Mar 18, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Videos
The prize is Sibelius’s Third Symphony. Leading up to it is teenager Richard Strauss’s richly expressive Serenade for thirteen wind-players (as per Mozart’s K361), including four horns, languorously performed and beautifully played under Sir Mark’s unobtrusive and...
