Ramblings Archives - Colin's Column

50/50 in Munich; full-on in Vienna. UPDATE ON NOVEMBER 28.

Nov 28, 2020 | Ramblings

If the Vienna Philharmonic’s website is up to date, then current concerts with Christian Thielemann and Zubin Mehta are going ahead in the Musikverein, including the former’s Bruckner 3 just this morning, also tomorrow’s matinee, presumably without...

Advance notice: two new Column categories (hopefully) coming soon…

Nov 16, 2020 | Ramblings

“Christmas Boxes”, a few suggestions for music boxset presents; and “Soundbites”, an overview rather than a detailed critique of a particular release. These are working titles… let’s see how it goes… watch this...

Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of Animals – narrated by Noël Coward, conducted by André Kostelanetz.

Nov 15, 2020 | Ramblings, Videos

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Born on November 14, 1900: composer, conductor & pianist Aaron Copland.

Nov 14, 2020 | Ramblings

Pet Sounds on Classic FM.

Nov 7, 2020 | Ramblings

7 o’clock on a Saturday evening is normally Cowan’s Classics on Classic FM in which Rob Cowan (pictured) extends artists and repertoire beyond that habitually associated with this station, gratifyingly. Under the cover of appeasing animals frightened by the noise of...

Let’s lighten the mood and scintillate to Celibidache conducting Enescu’s First Romanian Rhapsody: now republished as a regular tonic.

Nov 5, 2020 | Ramblings, Videos

George Enescu, 1881-1955, pictured. 1978, Bucharest, Sergiu Celibidache (1912-96), a native of Romania, if particularly associated today with orchestras in Stuttgart and Munich, and not forgetting some remarkable LSO appearances, here conducts the George Enescu...