![Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich – Paavo Järvi conducts Tchaikovsky’s Winter Daydreams Symphony [live Idagio webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/winter-1080x675.jpg)
Jan 23, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Outstanding [w.e.f. January 2021], Videos
Friday, January 22, 2021 Konzertsaal Tonhalle Maag, Zürich, Switzerland Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga In the midst of high-profile cancellations, starved of music-making these past months, hungry to get back, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich under its music director Paavo...
![Berliner Philharmoniker – Kirill Petrenko conducts Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov – Romeo and Juliet, The Isle of the Dead, Francesca da Rimini [live webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/isle-4.jpg)
Jan 17, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Arnold Böcklin’s painting, Die Toteninsel, which, when he saw it as a black & white print, inspired Rachmaninov to compose The Isle of the Dead. Max Klinger’s etching-and-aquatint copy was widely popular. Böcklin’s “Basel”...
Jan 15, 2021 | Guest Contributors, Videos
Alexander Sladkovsky Guest Writer, Ateş Orga The Christmas/New Year break may understandably have been dominated by Riccardo Muti’s New Year’s Day concert, and speech, from Vienna. But it wasn’t the only good thing about. Here, in no particular...
![Post #1,600: Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse – Robert Schumann – Maxim Emelyanychev conducts the Fourth Symphony, Adam Laloum plays the Piano Concerto [live Medici webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Maxim-Emelyanychev-by-DR-1080x675.jpg)
Jan 9, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Maxim Emelyanychev Friday, January 8, 2021 Halle aux grains, 1 Place Dupuy, 31000 Toulouse, France Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Principal conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Maxim Emelyanychev, born in 1988, studied in Nizhny-Novgorod with the veteran Margarita...
![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...
