Ramblings Archives - Colin's Column

A Bavarian Radio concert in memoriam Mariss Jansons – Zubin Mehta conducts Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony.

Jan 18, 2021 | Ramblings, Videos

Mariss Jansons died on 30 November 2019 at the age of 76. At the time he was Chief Conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, which on 15 January last year paid tribute to him with this concert given in the Gasteig, Munich, devoted to Mahler’s Symphony No.2...

Ida’s Lark gets better and better, flies ever higher…

Jan 10, 2021 | Ramblings

In other words, Ida Haendel’s newly-issued if Eloquence-‘rescued’ recording of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending, a wonderfully potent account: solace-giving, transporting and emotionally uplifting … it’s a musical wonder that continues to give, elevating a...

If he were still alive, David Bowie would be 74 today.

Jan 8, 2021 | Ramblings

David Bowie 1947-2016

If he were still alive, Elvis Presley would be 86 today.

Jan 8, 2021 | Ramblings

Elvis 1935-77

Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Day Concert 2021 conducted by Riccardo Muti [live relay]

Jan 1, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Ramblings

From 10.15 this morning (UK time) I listened (on BBC Radio 3) and watched (BBC Two, sound muted) – not synchronised if only a few seconds apart, DAB arriving first – this latest of the Vienna Philharmonic’s NYD Concerts, which proved to be a tonic, many smiles and a...

SOME of my favourite recordings released last year, 2020 … and a few concert reviews.

Jan 1, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Ramblings, Recording Reviews

I am not one for musical league tables or for pigeonholing musicians, so what follows, while far from arbitrary, is in no order whatsoever; it’s simply as I recalled a particular release that I regard as special I included it below, so something has no doubt...