![Berliner Philharmoniker – Kirill Petrenko conducts Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta [live Digital Concert Hall webcast; sung in Russian, with German and English surtitles]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/amsil.jpg)
Jan 15, 2022 | Concert Reviews, Opera Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021], Videos
Asmik Grigorian takes the role of Iolanta Saturday, January 15, 2022 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Exceptionally this season, the Berlin Philharmonic and Kirill Petrenko have programmed three Tchaikovsky operas. Mazeppa was first up,...
![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...
Jan 15, 2022 | News, Videos
97-YEAR-OLD PIANIST SIGNS GLOBAL RECORD DEAL TO UNIVERSAL MUSIC. Her 1957 recording of Chopin’s Four...
![Turku Philharmonic plays Leif Segerstam’s Symphony No.288 “Letting the FLOW go on…” (unconducted; composer at the piano); October 6, 2016. [As of April 2021, Segerstam has written 344 Symphonies.]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/leif3.jpg)
