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I’m Colin Anderson, a writer on music and the editor of Classical Source.
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Proms postscript.
Pinned post One way or another, every BBC Prom is included here: https://www.colinscolumn.com/category/bbc-proms-2023/ and each can be listened to (individual links available) for thirty days following the Last Night. Photos taken at Proms concerts are copyright BBC...
July 7: Eloquence releases Antal Dorati conducting the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra – The Mercury Masters – The Stereo Recordings.
Pinned post, review in progress: please keep checking in for updates A companion to this, https://www.colinscolumn.com/eloquence-releases-antal-dorati-the-mercury-masters-the-mono-recordings/, and constituted thus,...
Eloquence releases Antal Dorati – The Mercury Masters – The Mono Recordings.
Pinned post, review in progress: please keep checking in for updates… So, the sound is mono. It matters not, for, as Ein Heldenleben demonstrates (recorded December 1952), the reproduction is full and vivid, tangible and dynamic – typically so – and Antal Dorati...
RELEASED TODAY, June 2: Otto Klemperer – The Warner Classics Remastered Edition, Volume One: Symphonic Works & Concertos.
Pinned post since May 16 (please keep checking in for additions) It's arrived......
Decca releases Ernest Ansermet: The Stereo Years.
Pinned post* (please keep checking-in for additions, which you'll find in the first Comments box) May 19, update for procuring replacement CDs: For UK residents ONLY with faulty Ansermet CDs, numbers 20 & 37, please email mk.customerservices@umusic.com for...
BBC Statement: Alternative funding solution for the BBC Singers.
Pinned post The BBC has received approaches from a number of organisations offering alternative funding models for the BBC Singers. We have agreed with the Musicians’ Union that we will suspend the proposal to close the BBC Singers, while we actively explore these...
New Strategy for Classical Music Prioritises Quality, Agility and Impact. From which the following: “… therefore the BBC has made the difficult decision to close the BBC Singers (20 posts) and invest resources in a wider pool of choral groups from across the UK.”
Pinned post Following last year’s classical review looking at the sector and the BBC’s role within it, the BBC today sets out a new strategy to strengthen its public purpose for classical music, delivering the best music to a wider audience, with a significant new...
Marc-André Hamelin records Fauré’s Nocturnes & Barcarolles for Hyperion.
Nocturnes and Barcarolles, a baker's dozen of each genre courtesy of Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) - lyrical, elusive, transporting, emotional, tender - the Nocturnes have their Chopinesque moments without betraying the Frenchman's identity, whereas the Barcarolles are...
Bergen International Festival: Full-scale Peer Gynt.
The 2024 Bergen International Festival opens with a performance that highlights both the writing and the music of the Norwegian icon Peer Gynt. 'Norway's two greatest cultural giants of all time are Ibsen and Grieg, and Peer Gynt is their mutual masterpiece....
Kings Place announce ‘Scotland Unwrapped’, a year-long celebration of Scottish music and spoken word.
Multi award-winning songwriter, folk singer and storyteller Karine Polwart is Artist in Residence Guest curators include poet Jackie Kay and folk musician Aidan O’Rourke Premieres and commissions from Anna Meredith, Jasdeep Singh Degun, LVRA, Donald Grant, Aileen...
Oct. 20: Sony Classical Set To Release Commemorative Vinyl Yo-Yo Ma – J.S. Bach: 6 Suites For Unaccompanied Cello The 1983 Sessions.
3-Disc LP Edition Marks The 40th AnniversaryOf Ma’s First-Ever Recording Of The Bach Cello Suites Available October 20, 2023 From Sony Classical – Preorder Out Today: Nature At Play: Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 – Ep FeaturingMa’s Live Performance Of...
In succession to Daniel Barenboim, Christian Thielemann is announced as the next general music director of the Staatsoper unter den Linden, Berlin.
Sir Karl Jenkins to conduct world premiere performance of One World with hundreds of performers from over 40 countries, both virtually and on stage.
Sir Karl Jenkins © David Williams Sir Karl Jenkins, The World Orchestra for Peace, The World Choir for Peace and the SAHC (2023) Photo: Dagmar Titsch with thanks to Rondo Media and Gareth Owens · The World Orchestra for Peace...
London Philharmonic Orchestra launches LPO Under 30s.
Get the best seats in the house for less, drinks offers and behind the scenes content Are you under 30, love classical music and want to pay less for concerts? Maybe you’ve been thinking about trying it out or hear orchestral music in films, TV and adverts and want to...
THE IVORS ACADEMY ANNOUNCES THAT JOHN RUTTER CBE WILL RECEIVE THE PRESTIGIOUS ACADEMY FELLOWSHIP, RECOGNISING HIS IMPACT ON CONTEMPORARY CHORAL REPERTOIRE.
Rutter joins a prestigious list of 24 Fellows, including John Adams, Sir Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney, Judith Weir CBE and Sting The Ivors Academy today [27 September] announces John Rutter CBE as the recipient of the Academy Fellowship, which is...
New DSO recording: John Williams’s Trumpet Concerto with Principal Trumpet Hunter Eberly on Naxos label.
Digital release is available now for download and streaming Detroit, (September 27, 2023) – The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) has released a new digital recording on the Naxos label. Principal Trumpet Hunter Eberly performs John...