Dec 15, 2020 | Guest Contributors, News
Pamela Slatter winner of the Mary Otty Carol Competition 2020 Guest Writer, David Truslove On Sunday December 13 Bristol Choral Society hosted what must be one of the first Christmas Carol competitions to be adjudicated via Zoom. Undeterred by singing restrictions and...
![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....
![Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra – Klaus Mäkelä conducts Kodály, Debussy, Rolf Gupta, and Sibelius’s First Symphony [Virtual Circle webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/klaus-oslo-1080x675.jpg)
Dec 9, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Oslo Konserthus, Munkedamsveien 14, 0115 Oslo, Norway Broadcast Tuesday, December 8, 2020 Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga As conductors go Helsinki-born Klaus Mäkelä is young, not yet twenty-five, but with a career trajectory impressive beyond his years. He is the new chief...
![Berliner Philharmoniker – Alain Altinoglu conducts Stravinsky & Bizet [live webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Altinoglu.jpg)
Dec 6, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Saturday, December 5, 2020 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga In his mid-forties, the French conductor Alain Altinoglu, of Istanbul Armenian descent (his name translates as ‘Son of Gold’), studied at the...
![WDR Symphony Orchestra – The Way to Victory: Music in Dialogue [livestream]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/bass.jpg)
Dec 4, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Thursday, December 3, 2020 WDR Funkhaus Wallrafplatz, Cologne, Germany Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga During the late-fifties/early-sixties I developed a passion for Weber, the Konzertstück and Concertos occupying me at the piano, the two Symphonies taking me to the RCM...
![Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra – Herbert Blomstedt conducts Schubert’s ‘Great C-major’ Symphony & Johan Dalene plays Mozart’s Violin Concerto K219 [livestream]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/johan.jpg)
Nov 21, 2020 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Friday, November 20, 2020 Berwaldhallen, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 3, Stockholm Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Civilised evenings come no better. Two masterworks of the Austrian school. A veteran at the helm. A rising soloist barely into his twenties. Artist in Residence with...
