![Many Happy Returns to Richard Farnes, 58 today. Video of him conducting Opera North’s Wagner Ring Cycle; Leeds Town Hall; May 2016. [Conductor cam only; a playing time of 14 hours & 40 minutes.]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/farnes.jpg)
Jan 15, 2022 | News, Unexpected, Videos
Another conductor cam video: Vernon Handley Vernon Handley (1930-2008) – remembered fondly as man and musician – conducts Elgar’s First Symphony with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Recorded on September 2, 1994, in Perth. [Reasonable sound if with...
Dec 24, 2021 | Comedy, Unexpected
Hancock fans are probably ahead of me, but I have just been made aware of this site… https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009t2ld/episodes/player?page=1 … for which thanks are due to Richard. There are seventy-eight Hancock episodes to choose from. I have...
Dec 23, 2021 | Ramblings, Unexpected, Videos
Photo from a Nutcracker production A bit of fun. I can’t name the players, save for first-left, Sarah Willis, and, last-right, Stefan Dohr. Very different music for eight Berlin horns here: Berliner Philharmoniker – Simon Rattle conducts My Melodies &...
Nov 2, 2021 | News, Unexpected
The countdown to save the koala from disappearing forever has well and truly begun – and from now until Christmas everyone can help these wonderful animals for free, just by listening to a great new festive playlist. Recent research has revealed that there could...
![Evgeny Svetlanov conducts his own Symphony in B-minor (1956); USSR State Symphony Orchestra; recorded in 1975. Four movements, forty-eight minutes. [Audio only]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ev-800x675.jpg)
