Jan 15, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors
Thursday, January 13, 2022 L’Auditori Hall, Barcelona Guest Reviewer, Guy Holloway There’s something cold and functional about the 2,200-seat L’Auditori Hall. And for an artist of this magnitude, the audience was surprisingly thin. The opening notes...
Jan 12, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Insights, Videos
Ateş Orga, Guest Writer Strausses December 2021 Under Mikko Franck [pictured], comfortable in its superior 1400-seat studio auditorium overlooking the Seine, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France is a relaxed, responsive ensemble, boasting a galaxy of...
Jan 3, 2022 | Guest Contributors, Insights, Videos
Guest Writer, Ateş Orga “Nobleman of the profession.” Nicholas King Ronald Bertram Smith – pianist, composer, teacher, writer, broadcaster, recording artist, hero – was born a hundred years ago today in Lewisham south London, son of Albert James from...
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Dec 24, 2021 | Guest Contributors, Insights, Videos
Friday, December 10, 2021 Estonia Concert Hall, Estonian Avenue 4, 10148 Tallinn, Estonia Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Originally Le Chant de l’amour triomphant (after the 1881 Renaissance novella by Turgenev), Chausson’s Poème dates from 1896....
![2021 Nobel Prize Concert | Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra [live webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/sol-1035x675.jpg)
Dec 9, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Ryan Bancroft conducts Stenhammar’s Excelsior!, Hannah Kendall’s The Spark Catchers, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio espagnol | Sol Gabetta plays Saint-Saëns’s First Cello Concerto Wednesday, December 8, 2021 Stockholms...
Dec 5, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]
Saturday, December 4, 2021 Southbank Centre, London – Royal Festival Hall Guest Reviewer, Peter Reed Threading through the past decade or so has been a series of big, specifically Christian works by Sir James MacMillan – such as the St John Passion, the Symphony No.5...
