![Jonathan Plowright at Wigmore Hall – Bach/Busoni, Liszt, Grieg [broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 and streamed on the Hall’s website]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/plow-1080x675.jpg)
May 3, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]
Monday, May 3, 2021 Wigmore Hall, London Jonathan Plowright opened his latest Wigmore Hall recital with Busoni’s mighty transcription of the ‘Chaconne’ from J. S. Bach’s D-minor Partita (BWV1004) for violin, a magisterial reading from the pianist, enticingly sotto...
![Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich – Josef Špaček plays Dvořák’s Violin Concerto, Jakub Hrůša conducts Suk’s Pohádka Suite [live webcast]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/jos.jpg)
May 2, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Friday, April 30, 2021 Tonhalle Maag, Zürich, Switzerland Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Around forty years ago I was in Prague. Standing on the Charles Bridge, the Vltava in vernal flow, gazing up at the old Castle and Cathedral, I wanted to know about the city’s...
May 2, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Videos
Sir Mark Elder conductor | Annabel Arden director | Femi Elufowoju Jr co director | Dominic Best director of photography | George Johnson-Leigh designer | Richard Katz narrator | Martins Imhangbe soldier...
![Kirill Petrenko conducts the 2021 Berliner Philharmoniker Europakonzert [live webcast]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/foyer.png)
May 1, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Saturday, May 1, 2021 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Marking the foundation of the Berliner Philharmoniker, 1 May 1882, the annual Europakonzert, initiated by Abbado in Prague in 1991 and beamed these days to more...
![London Symphony Orchestra at Jerwood Hall – Nicola Benedetti premieres Mark Simpson’s Violin Concerto, Gianandrea Noseda conducts Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique Symphony [Marquee TV webcast]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/mark-simpson.jpg)
Apr 29, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Videos
Recorded April 11, 2021, at Jerwood Hall, LSO St Luke’s, London, and first shown on April 29 @ 7 p.m. Mark Simpson’s five-movement Violin Concerto, written for Nicola Benedetti, co-commissioned by the LSO, steals in on a whisper and is soon lamenting intensely,...
![Mishka Rushdie Momen – Live at Wigmore Hall [webcast]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/mishka2-1080x675.jpg)
Apr 29, 2021 | Concert Reviews, Guest Contributors, Videos
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 Wigmore Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Mishka Rushdie Momen is a pianist who lives out stories and dreams. In this recital – no audience, darkened room, her Wigmore Hall solo debut – she wandered forests and paths familiar...
