Ramblings Archives - Colin's Column

Tony Hancock: The Test Match.

Sep 22, 2021 | Comedy, Ramblings

Today’s episode on BBC Radio 4 Extra, at 8 o’clock, midday and 7 p.m., finds Tony captaining the England cricket team to play Australia, as appointed by the Chairman of the MCC Sid James who of course has his own agenda. Kenneth Williams is an incompetent...

Vasily Petrenko conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s 75th-anniversary concert at the Royal Albert Hall, September 21 – Delius, Elgar, Walton [live relay on BBC Radio 3]

Sep 22, 2021 | Ramblings

Rembrandt’s Belshazzar’s Feast This is a tale of woe, of lost and reclaimed, and the alchemy of turning a concert review into a ramble (as tagged). Here I was last night just about to post my review of RPO75, as heard live on Radio 3. Having added the...

The Year 2000, Cologne Philharmonie, Wolfgang Sawallisch conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra in Richard Strauss’s Symphonia Domestica.

Sep 12, 2021 | Ramblings, Videos

I came across this excellent performance of the Strauss by accident (you know how YouTube lists things you didn’t know you wanted to see) and was hoping to embed it in the Column, but for the above advice. However, do search it out, easily found, not only for a...

Boulez at the BBC.

Sep 12, 2021 | Ramblings, Videos

I just watched this on BBC Four… https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000zntk … well-worth the thirty minutes needed.

Today marks the centenary of Sir Harry Secombe (he died in 2001): a stalwart of The Goon Show, the occasional stand-in for Tony Hancock, tenor-balladeer (‘If I Ruled the World’), actor, and TV presenter (Songs of Praise, Highway…).

Sep 8, 2021 | Comedy, Ramblings

Harry sings ‘Nessun...

On BBC Radio 4: Mark Elder & the Hallé rehearse Elgar’s Enigma Variations.

Sep 7, 2021 | Ramblings

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000zcd7 Well-worth a listen as conductor & orchestra prepare for this… Hallé Live after Lockdown – Mark Elder conducts Glinka, Stravinsky & Elgar [BBC Radio 3 recorded...