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
Many Happy Returns to soprano Anna Netrebko, 50 today.
The Cleveland Orchestra’s Next Album: Schnittke and Prokofiev Available Worldwide November 5.
The Cleveland Orchestra releases new recording of two 20th century orchestral gems led by Music Director Franz Welser-Möst:Alfred Schnittke’s Concerto for Piano and Strings with Yefim Bronfman [pictured] and Prokofiev’s Second SymphonyAvailable worldwide November 5...
Jaap van Zweden to Exit the New York Philharmonic.
"He’ll exit at the end of 2023-24, one season after the current contract expires. President Deborah Borda convinced him to stay that extra year. Van Zweden’s short tenure matches that of Pierre Boulez—just six seasons." [Musical America Worldwide, September 17,...
The 16th Malcolm Arnold Festival – ‘Malcolm’s 100th’ – live-streamed and FREE-to-view, 16-17 October 2021.
One of England’s most colourful and characteristic composers – Sir Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006) – is to be celebrated online over 16-17 October as part of the 16th International Malcolm Arnold Festival; an annual programme of music, films and talks on the multi-faceted...
Giving help together – The Berliner Philharmoniker and their chief conductor Kirill Petrenko to become ambassadors of UNO-Flüchtlingshilfe.
The Berliner Philharmoniker and their chief conductor Kirill Petrenko are to be appointed ambassadors of theUNO-Flüchtlingshilfe. This will make them the first organisation to receive this status and to join the UN RefugeeAgency’s “Circle of Friends”. The new...
![Inauguration of the newly renovated Tonhalle Zürich – Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich – Paavo Järvi conducts Mahler’s Third Symphony, with Wiebke Lehmkuhl [SRF 1 live webcast]](http://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/tonh-400x250.jpg)
Inauguration of the newly renovated Tonhalle Zürich – Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich – Paavo Järvi conducts Mahler’s Third Symphony, with Wiebke Lehmkuhl [SRF 1 live webcast]
Wednesday, September 15, 2021 Tonhalle, Claridenstrasse 7, 8002 Zürich, Switzerland Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga The room by the lake. To a design by Helmer and Fellner, late Habsburg Europe's most celebrated master builders, inaugurated by Brahms in...
Wigmore Hall Announces 90 Concerts Throughout November and December.
Highlights include: World premiere of new works by Jonathan Dove, Oliver Leith, Roxanna Panufnik [pictured]; Huw Watkins’s one-act opera In the Locked Room, based on a Thomas Hardy short story, receives its Wigmore Hall premiere World premiere of new work by Sylvia...
The Metropolitan Opera announces the company premiere of Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, to be presented in the 2023–24 season.
Theater luminary Robert O’Hara makes his Met debut directing the new production, becoming the second Black director in Met history Baritone Will Liverman stars in the title role of the opera, which will be conducted by Kazem Abdullah New York, NY (September 16,...
Manchester Camerata announce sensational return to the stage with Music Director Gábor Takács-Nagy, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Patricia Kopatchinskaja.
Manchester Camerata is delighted to announce the details of its upcoming autumn 2021 season of live and digital classical concerts. After a testing 18 months and an exciting new home at the previously derelict Monastery in Gorton, ‘Britains most adventurous...