May 14, 2021 | Ramblings, Videos
H, as he is often known, has a fondness for the cello, so my gift of thanks to him, for being a bubble extraordinaire during the pandemic, is the audio of Johann Sebastian Bach’s six Cello Suites as played as a set by Yo-Yo Ma during BBC Proms 2015 at the Royal...
May 3, 2021 | Ramblings, Videos
In this filmed, no-audience, concert, Paavo Järvi conducts Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, with the radiant soprano voice of Golda Schultz, in idiomatic, affectionate and very enjoyable renditions of Strauss Family favourites, adding in a guest appearance from...
Apr 23, 2021 | News, Ramblings
A few observations from yours truly – for this is not a review. Fantasy of Companionship will not scare any horses, the music is very filmic and popularly-orientated – twenty-one vignettes titled descriptively lasting thirty-three minutes – and transferred to disc at...
![Celibidache conducts Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony, Munich Philharmonic, November 8, 1992 [audio].](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/sib2-770x675.jpg)
Apr 18, 2021 | Ramblings, Videos
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) This performance has done the rounds of the conductor’s fans, starting with an unsanctioned release in Japan. Celibidache conducts the Munich Philharmonic in Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, Herkulessaal,...
Apr 16, 2021 | Ramblings, Videos
A few doubts as to the first movement, which can plod a little, I find this Tchaikovsky performance compelling. Celibidache conducts Schubert’s ‘Unfinished’ Symphony: Munich Philharmonic, 30 September 1988, Philharmonie im Gasteig Celibidache...
