Concert Soundbites | Colin's Column

BBC Proms 2026 on Sunday morning August 23 @ Royal Albert Hall, London. Academy of St Martin in the Fields. [Apropos Thea Musgrave’s Bassoon Concerto (for Amy Harman)/Posted for the record.]

Aug 24, 2026 | BBC Proms 2026, Concert Soundbites

Photo, BBC/Chris Christodoulou It may only last a few seconds short of twelve minutes, if written with characteristic elegance and fluency, but Thea Musgrave’s Bassoon Concerto (‘Out of the Darkness’) compels interest for the concentration of ideas....

Tanglewood – Boston Symphony Orchestra/Andris Nelsons – Mozart/Tchaikovsky: 1/3. Turkish Violin Concerto/Polish Symphony. With Augustin Hadelich. Live broadcast on Classical Radio Boston.

Jul 25, 2026 | Concert Soundbites, Outstanding [category w.e.f. January 2021]

Friday, July 24, 2026 Koussevitzky Music Shed, Tanglewood Music Center, Lenox, Massachusetts The first of three consecutive Mozart/Tchaikovsky concerts. Unfortunately I missed Augustin Hadelich playing Mozart’s ‘Turkish’ Violin Concerto (No.5; K219),...

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra – Alan Gilbert conducts Mahler Nine. Live on Berwaldhallen Play.

May 30, 2026 | Blomstedt memorabilia, Concert Soundbites, Videos

Friday, May 29, 2026 Berwaldhallen, Dag Hammarskjölds väg 3, Stockholm Breaking into his six-month sabbatical, Alan Gilbert replaced Herbert Blomstedt with reverence to him, Gilbert’s view of Mahler’s final completed Symphony rather different to...

Last night’s (May 9) Berliner Philharmonker/Digital Concert Hall concert…

May 10, 2026 | Concert Soundbites, Videos

Not surprisingly it mirrored the May 1 Eisenstadt concert, as below, and presumably followed the usual Thursday/Friday Philharmonie subscription evenings. For whatever reason, if as scheduled, the Haydn Overture wasn’t included (seems mean), the Stravinsky...

Detroit Symphony Orchestra – Tabita Berglund conducts Stenhammar & Nielsen, with Eldbjørg Hemsing playing Anders Hillborg’s Second Violin Concerto. Live DSO webcast.

Apr 23, 2026 | Concert Soundbites, Videos

Sunday, April 19, 2026 Orchestra Hall, Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center, Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan Excelsior! opens with a burst of energy and intense lyricism that makes a fine introduction to Wilhelm Stenhammar’s music, as would his Second...

Live on BBC Radio 3, Thursday, March 12 at the Royal Festival Hall – London premiere of Gabriela Ortiz’s ‘Dzonot’ Cello Concerto – Alisa Weilerstein/Philharmonia Orchestra/Marin Alsop. Plus Danzón No.2 and Scheherazade.

Mar 12, 2026 | Concert Soundbites

Gabriela Ortiz Arturo Márquez’s Danzón No.2 is laidback and seductively tuneful, music to open a bottle for and ease into the slinky Mexican dance rhythms, evidently enjoyed by the Philharmonia and Marin Alsop. Similarly Gabriela Ortiz’s Cello Concerto,...