Feb 5, 2021 | Concert Reviews
Colin Matthews Friday, February 5, 2021 @ BBC Hoddinott Hall, Cardiff Richard Blackford’s The Better Angels of Our Nature (2014), for oboe and strings, kicked things off. The title owes to words included by Abraham Lincoln as part of his inaugural address of 1861. The...
Feb 4, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Videos
Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) Recorded last month at Jerwood Hall, LSO St Luke’s, London and first broadcast on Marquee TV on Thursday, February 4, 2021 The surprise, because not billed in pre-publicity, was the opening Dvořák Wind Serenade (Opus 44, for twelve players,...
Feb 3, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Dmitri Kabalevsky (1904-87) Recorded last month and first streamed on Wigmore’s Hall’s website on Tuesday, February 2, 2021 Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Steven Isserlis has had many distinguished concert and recording partnerships over the years. But his new one with the...
Feb 1, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Videos
Recorded last month and first streamed on Wigmore’s Hall’s website on Monday February 1, 2021 Four chips off the Beethovenian block were central to Cédric Tiberghien’s programme, each WoO (Werke ohne Opuszahl) set of Variations based on an operatic source (Winter,...
![Berliner Philharmoniker – Kirill Petrenko premieres Anna Thorvaldsdóttir’s Catamorphosis and conducts Josef Suk’s A Summer’s Tale, Daniil Trifonov plays Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto [live webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/suk.jpeg)
Feb 1, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Josef Suk Friday, January 29, 2021 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga One of the highlights of pre-covid London, February 2020, was catching up with Anna Thorvaldsdóttir’s Aeriality. In my review...
![Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir – Zubin Mehta conducts Haydn & Schubert Symphonies and Sacred Verdi [live radio relay]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/mehta5.jpg)
Jan 28, 2021 | Concert Reviews
Photograph taken during one of this week’s rehearsals Thursday, January 28, 2021 Herkulessaal, Munich [without an audience] But for Covid-19 the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Zubin Mehta would currently be on a short tour (I assume originally designed for the...
