Jan 1, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Ramblings, Recording Reviews
I am not one for musical league tables or for pigeonholing musicians, so what follows, while far from arbitrary, is in no order whatsoever; it’s simply as I recalled a particular release that I regard as special I included it below, so something has no doubt...
![Berliner Philharmoniker – Kirill Petrenko conducts the New Year’s Eve Concert, Pablo Sáinz-Villegas plays Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez [live webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/pablo.jpg)
Dec 31, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Thursday, December 31, 2020 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Last year Kirill Petrenko and the Berliner Philharmoniker went for an American-themed New Year’s Eve concert with a Broadway emphasis taking in the...
![Berliner Philharmoniker – Andris Nelsons conducts Beethoven, Seong-Jin Cho plays Liszt [live webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cho.png)
Dec 20, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Saturday, December 19, 2020 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Signing off the Berlin Philharmonic’s Beethoven 250 anniversary week – including four “Beethoven in close-up” programmes featuring the String Quartets...
Dec 11, 2020 | Concert Reviews, News, Videos
The Hallé has just released its second Digital Winter Season offering, recorded recently in Hallé St Peter’s, Manchester. It’s an intimate affair – the brass and percussion of Britten’s Russian Funeral contrasted by the strings and bell required for Arvo Pärt’s Cantus...
![Wigmore Hall – Paul Lewis plays a Haydn Sonata & Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations [Wigmore livestream]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/paul.jpg)
Dec 10, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 Wigmore Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Haydn Sonata in C-minor, Hob.XVI/20, circa 1771. Beethoven Thirty-Three Variations in C-major on a Waltz of Diabelli, Opus 120, 1819-23. Habsburg music either side of the Revolution divide....
![Orchestre de Paris – Klaus Mäkelä conducts Mahler 9 [live webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/9_MATHIAS_BENGUIGUI_PASCO_AND_CO_DSC_3255-2000x1333-1-1080x675.jpg)
Dec 9, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Videos
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 Grande salle Pierre Boulez, Philharmonie de Paris Klaus Mäkelä, born 1996 in Helsinki, already has the Oslo Philharmonic embedded in his CV, add to which the Orchestre de Paris, of which he is music director designate, a position he begins...
