Hi,
I’m Colin Anderson, a writer on music and the editor of Classical Source.
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Cheers, Col
Barbican Hall: Michael Tilson Thomas and the LSO perform Mahler’s Fifth Symphony; Lukáš Vondráček is soloist in Liszt’s Piano Concerto No.1.
Photo, Barbican/Mark Allan Sunday, May 15, 2022 Barbican Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Peter Reed The last time I heard Michael Tilson Thomas and the London Symphony Orchestra was in this venue in November 2019, just a few weeks before the pandemic got a grip. Then the...
Martin James Bartlett awarded inaugural Prix Serdang.
Pianist Rudolf Buchbinder announces the winner of the new Swiss piano prize "Prix Serdang". Curator Rudolf Buchbinder, together with initiator Adrian Flury, have named the 25-year-old British pianist Martin James Bartlett as the first winner of the new piano prize...
Newbury Spring Festival announces the winner of the 2022 Sheepdrove Piano Competition. Video of a Thomas Kelly recital @ Perivale; January 9, 2022.
After a weekend of closed and open heats at Sheepdrove Eco Conference Centre on the afternoon of Sunday 15th May, Thomas Kelly of London’s Royal College of Music was awarded the Kindersley Prize as winner of the 2022 Sheepdrove Piano Competition. Thomas was also...
Lahav Shani and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra record Symphonies by Shostakovich & Weill for Warner Classics.
October 11, 1934 – premiere of Kurt Weill’s Second Symphony, Bruno Walter conducting the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra November 21, 1937 – premiere of Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, Yevgeny Mravinsky conducting the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra Tension and...
Sad news: organist Simon Preston has died at the age of 83. Plays J. S. Bach’s Toccata, Adagio & Fugue, BWV564. Deutsche Grammophon recording.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOj4drS50NY
Violinist Simon Blendis releases an album of rare salon treasures from the Max Jaffa archive.
On 1st July 2022, violinist Simon Blendis releases Love is like a Violin: Salon Treasures from the Max Jaffa Library on Nimbus Records. Simon Blendis has been playing a Peter Guarnerius violin previously...
The Hallé announces 2022/23 Bridgewater Hall season.
Sir Mark Elder Monday 16 May 2022 - The Hallé is delighted to present its first full season of Manchester concerts for three years. From September 2022 to June 2023, the orchestra will feature a rich and diverse mix of music and artists with programmes to delight,...
Khatia Buniatishvili at the Barbican.
Saturday, May 14, 2022 Barbican Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Peter Reed This was Khatia Buniatishvili’s rescheduled Barbican recital after she cancelled last October. She also radically changed her programme, offering a Saturday-night-is-music-night medley of familiar...
Christian Gerhaher and Heinz Holliger record Othmar Schoeck’s Elegie for Sony Classical.
Quite a discovery this hour-long song-cycle by Swiss-born Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957). Elegie (Opus 36) dates from 1922 and consists of twenty-four Lieder, mostly of poems by Nikolaus Lenau with six by Joseph von Eichendorff, for baritone and chamber orchestra....