Hi,
I’m Colin Anderson, a writer on music and the editor of Classical Source.
Welcome to my Column, a bit of a blog: news, reviews, things to watch, and other posts to read; a mix of things. I hope you like the contents.
Cheers, Col
Sad news: Argentinian pianist Aquiles Delle Vigne (who studied with Cziffra) has died (1946-2022). Plays Liszt’s Mazeppa (from Transcendental Studies).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QysenZD53Ko http://www.colinscolumn.com/gyorgy-cziffra-at-the-bbc-1962-1963-complete-tv-broadcasts/
Hansjörg Albrecht records the first complete Bruckner Symphony-cycle – as organ transcriptions.
The german conductor and organist Hansjörg Albrecht is recording Bruckner’s entire oeuvre of symphonies in transcriptions for organ with Oehms Classics. This project – the first of its kind - leads up to Bruckner's 200th anniversary year in 2024,...
Announcing Messiah 250.
Paragon Singers, acclaimed storyteller and Director Tom Guthrie and Music Director Sarah Latto are proud to announce Messiah 250: a reshaping of this popular work that goes beyond the concert hall. Messiah 250 was initially conceived in...
From 7.30 tonight until January the 25th: Kenneth Woods conducts the English String Orchestra in his arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s String Quartet No.3.
https://www.eso.co.uk/tchaikovskystringquartet/ "Free public viewing 21st-25th January 2022, and thereafter available only to ESO Digital supporters." Videos of Woods conducting the respective Fifth Symphonies of Mahler and Philip Sawyers,...
DECCA PRESENTS KLAUS MÄKELÄ’S DEBUT ALBUM: COMPLETE SIBELIUS SYMPHONIES WITH OSLO PHILHARMONIC.
‘Everything about Sibelius is original. He could make an entire symphony sound like one gesture, one breath...’ – Klaus Mäkelä On 25 March, Decca Classics will release Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä’s debut album Sibelius, a complete...
Many Happy Returns to Plácido Domingo, 81 today. Sings an aria from Tosca.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-AF1T4OehM
Sad news: Michael Lee Aday – aka Meat Loaf – has died at the age of 74. Video of Bat Out of Hell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QGMCSCFoKA
John Andrews Conducts Buxton Gala with Danielle de Niese and Nicky Spence.
On 18 February 2022, award-winning conductor John Andrews will direct the Buxton Opera Gala concert with soprano Danielle de Niese and tenor Nicky Spence performing a mixture of works from the operatic and classical...
‘Busy Doing Nothing’ (music by Jimmy Van Heusen) from the film A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (directed by Tay Garnett; released 1949) sung by Bing Crosby, William Bendix & Cedric Hardwicke.
A favourite earworm of yours truly! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcvgpNFynVo The above is a studio recording (for Decca?). Following is the song from the film soundtrack, same artists (I think Victor Young conducts):...