Jun 11, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Unexpected, Videos
Leone Sinigaglia (1868-1944) Saturday, June 11, 2022 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Under this season’s theme “Lost Generation”, Kirill Petrenko devotes this concert to three Jewish composers who suffered anti-Semitic persecution during the...
Jun 5, 2022 | Comedy, Ramblings, Unexpected, Videos
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May 27, 2022 | News, Unexpected
Pinned post Such truths or rumours presumably stem from this… BBC Director-General Tim Davie’s speech to staff on 26 May 2022. Andrew Keener has started a petition:...
May 24, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Opera Reviews, Unexpected
Due to a temporary hiatus in posting reviews on Classical Source, I, Colin, as the site’s editor, am adding some of the so-far-unpublished edited copy here and in serendipitous fashion. *** Curtis Rogers London Handel Festival & St Martin in the Fields...
Apr 27, 2022 | Ramblings, Unexpected, Videos
July 24, 1995; Royal Albert Hall. The talk includes the work’s original ending. Anderson anecdote: Present at rehearsals for this concert (Henry Wood Hall), during a break, before Enigma was prepared, I suggested to Leonard that he might like to have antiphonal...
Apr 25, 2022 | Unexpected, Videos
Dudley Moore (1935-2002); Peter Maxwell Davies...