![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 5, 2021 | Guest Contributors, Insights
30 August 1952 – Good Friday 2 April 2021 Òscar Colomina i Bosch remembers I first met Simon Bainbridge in 2005, while working on a piece for the Philharmonia Orchestra Music of Our Time Series. He had been booked to mentor the group of young composers while we worked...
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 30, 2021 | Guest Contributors, Insights
There was a time when the standard repertoire included many pieces that were wonderful to listen to as well as being written in quite individual styles. Some of them were ubiquitous on the concert platform and might have been heard every season. Here are twenty of...
![Ádám Fischer conducts the Danish Chamber Orchestra in Brahms’s First Symphony [live Virtual Circle webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/adam-1.jpg)
Mar 8, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Sunday, March 7, 2021 DR Koncerthuset, Ørestads Blvd 13, 2300 Copenhagen, Denmark Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga “Brahms’s First Symphony means to me a rainy afternoon. I’m sitting in my room and looking at the rain through the window, thinking about the past,...
![Berliner Philharmoniker – Paavo Järvi conducts Prokofiev’s Sixth Symphony, Igor Levit plays Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto [live webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/prok2.jpg)
Mar 8, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Sergei Prokofiev Saturday, March 6, 2021 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga A concert in the major and minor of E-flat, Paavo Järvi, wisdom, experience and humanity to the fore, adding to the mix with insightful cameos...
