Feb 14, 2020 | Ramblings
It’s Valentine’s Day. Billets-doux sent out … If music be the food of love, play on. Let me spool back a fortnight to Friday January 31. The plan was simple, to watch a Beethoven concert live from Dublin, Leonard Slatkin conducting the RTÉ National Symphony...
Feb 12, 2020 | News
A few weeks ago the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) announced that Italian conductor Jader Bignamini has been appointed Music Director beginning with the 2020-2021 season. He succeeds Leonard Slatkin. Jader Turandot...
Feb 12, 2020 | News
Following the sad news of Mariss Jansons’s passing in December 2019, we have been unable to secure a replacement conductor for the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra concert on 7 April 2020. We therefore regret having to cancel this performance but look forward to...
Feb 12, 2020 | Ramblings
I should explain that Col’s Column is not a breakaway from Classical Source, more an informal complement to it; and, anyway, there is meant to be a link of friendship from CS to these pages. Having spent time in two hospitals (the second involving physiotherapy and...
Feb 12, 2020 | News
I am very sorry to learn that Peter Serkin has died – on 1 February at the age of 72 from pancreatic cancer. Serkin embraced new and rare music as readily as he did the classics and will be much missed. Serkin plays Brahms...
