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
Reger for Rob with my very best wishes: Max Reger’s Four Tone Poems after paintings by Arnold Böcklin (Opus 128); 1993 BIS recording by Norrköping Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leif Segerstam.
Max Reger 1873-1916 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJmqy9F_vMg
The Metropolitan Opera – US premiere performances of Brett Dean’s Hamlet – Allan Clayton, Brenda Rae, Sarah Connolly, John Relyea; directed by Neil Armfield; conducted by Nicholas Carter.
Friday, May 13, 2022Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, New York City Guest Reviewer, Susan Stempleski Brett Dean and Matthew Jocelyn’s operatic adaptation of Hamlet, which premiered at the 2017 Glyndebourne Festival, has arrived at the Met, and their daring...
Royal Academy of Music presents Handel’s Imeneo.
Monday, May 16, 2022 Susie Sainsbury Theatre, Royal Academy of Music, London Guest Reviewer, Curtis Rogers Imeneo was Handel’s penultimate opera, reaching the stage in 1740, just one year before he composed Messiah. But even as his fortunes as a composer of opera...
Otto Klemperer conducts Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony; New Philharmonia Orchestra; 1970; Royal Festival Hall, London.
Otto Klemperer (1885-1973) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiIh80jYeGE
“Greenwood Overcomes,” Tulsa Opera’s Concert Marking the Centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre, To Be Broadcast Nationally.
Greenwood Overcomes performers and composers. Row I, l-r: H. Leslie Adams, Peter Ashbourne, Jasmine Barnes, David Bontemps, Kathryn Bostic, B.E. Boykin, Valerie Capers, Roland Carter; Row II, l-r: Anthony Davis, Melanie DeMore, Marques L. A. Garrett, Stewart Goodyear,...
Rachel Nicholls returns to Longborough for Die tote Stadt.
Following the withdrawal of soprano Noa Danon due to illness, Longborough Festival Opera announces that soprano Rachel Nicholls will make her role debut as Marie / Marietta in the festival's forthcoming production of Korngold's Die tote Stadt (21-27 June...
A Richter Rarity: Sviatoslav Richter plays Mozart: Piano Concerto No.18 in B-flat (K456) with Moscow Philharmonic & Kirill Kondrashin; 1977.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpL1dVsF1g4
2022 BIRGIT NILSSON PRIZE awarded to YO-YO MA.
Birgit Nilsson Foundation President, Susanne Rydén, announced today that the 2022 Birgit Nilsson Prize will be awarded to cellist Yo-Yo Ma. At one million US dollars, the Prize is the largest in classical music, awarded to artists and institutions who have contributed...
Many Happy Returns to Ivor Bolton, 64 today. Conducts Beethoven 9 with Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, et al (unspecified); undated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzvKQt5PSZY No sound for a few minutes from 43:37 (the Karaoke version)