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
BBC Proms 2021 – London Symphony Orchestra – Simon Rattle conducts Stravinsky Symphonies.
Sunday, August 22, 2021, Royal Albert Hall, London Broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 from 7.30 p.m., and shown on BBC Four from 8 o’clock The evening started with the ‘sounding together’ of Symphonies of Wind Instruments (original 1920 version, in memoriam Debussy) given...
![Celibidache rehearses Prokofiev’s ‘Classical’ Symphony; Munich Philharmonic, 1988. [Forty-minute film with English subtitles]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/prok-400x250.jpg)
Celibidache rehearses Prokofiev’s ‘Classical’ Symphony; Munich Philharmonic, 1988. [Forty-minute film with English subtitles]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2yoHdP4wkI http://www.colinscolumn.com/sergiu-celibidaches-garden-2-hour-20-minute-film/ http://www.colinscolumn.com/celibidache-conducts-the-munich-philharmonic-in-tchaikovskys-fifth-symphony-herkulessaal-1983/...
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Enrique Jordá: The Decca Recordings 1950-51 [Eloquence]
This welcome Eloquence collection (484 0403, 2 CDs) compiles Enrique Jordá’s Decca recordings from 1950 and 1951. Jordá (1911-96) includes a vividly dramatic Sorcerer’s Apprentice, a dashing Ruslan and Ludmilla Overture, and a pulsating Danse slave (Chabrier). There...
Complementing Joan Tower’s Sequoia, John Luther Adams’s Become Ocean. Leonard Slatkin introduces this fascinating score & conducts Detroit Symphony Orchestra in a performance (Feb 23, 2019).
https://livefromorchestrahall.vhx.tv/videos/john-luther-adams-become-ocean http://www.colinscolumn.com/if-you-like-joan-towers-sequoia-as-much-as-i-do-heres-a-second-performance-leonard-slatkin-the-detroit-symphony-orchestra-recorded-feb-8-2019/
If you like Joan Tower’s Sequoia as much as I do, here’s a second performance: Leonard Slatkin & the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, recorded Feb 8, 2019.
https://livefromorchestrahall.vhx.tv/2018-19-season/season:10/videos/joan-tower-sequoia http://www.colinscolumn.com/sequoia-a-striking-piece-by-american-composer-joan-tower-born-1938-new-york-philharmonic-conducted-by-zubin-mehta-recorded-in-1982/
Many Happy Returns to Dame Janet Baker, 88 today.
Many Happy Returns to Emre Elivar, 45 today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGGJnDYVLPA
The Metropolitan Opera Announces “Verdi’s Requiem: The Met Remembers 9/11”.
The Met commemorates the 20th anniversary of September 11 with a pre-season performance of Verdi’s Requiem, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the Met Orchestra and Chorus and soloists Ailyn Pérez, Elīna Garanča, Matthew Polenzani, and Eric Owens The concert on...
Turning 80, Muti says: ”I No Longer Recognize My Profession.”
"'Conducting has often become a profession of convenience and young people…tackle monumental works…, relying on the effectiveness of gestures.' The conductor is unafraid to die, but insists that only his own recordings be played at his funeral. If not, 'there’s a...