Ramblings Archives - Colin's Column

Hallelujah! Handel’s chorus from Messiah.

Nov 25, 2023 | Ramblings

Having been incapacitated for a few weeks, unable to get to my computer, it has been returned to me by a kind techie friend who moved the whole thing (plus CD player) from the room it was in to the one I am occupying, restricted. I remain limited in what I can do but...

October 31: Happy Halloween. | Witches’ Sabbath. Tam o’ Shanter. Sorcerer’s Apprentice. Psycho.

Oct 31, 2023 | Ramblings, Videos, Vinyl

LPO/Ed Gardner; Oct 2021. Malcolm Arnold’s Tam o’ Shanter. Decca recording. Taken from SXL vinyl. My first recording of the Dukas. 1960...

Two o’clock on this Sunday morning: the time has gone ‘fall back’ by an hour in the UK, so the dark nights will now arrive earlier! Cue Private Frazer…

Oct 29, 2023 | Ramblings, Videos

John...

On this Friday the Thirteenth, Many Happy Returns to Phil. Lakmé. Madama Butterfly. La traviata.

Oct 13, 2023 | Ramblings, Videos

Sabine Devieilhe & Marianne Crebassa; Les Siècles/François-Xavier Roth. Maria Callas (La Scala) Mark Elder...

It might be a quiet weekend on the Column, but, if it is, don’t panic Captain Mainwaring.

Sep 29, 2023 | Ramblings

Recommended! Michael Tippett on BBC Radio 4 Extra – Oliver Soden reads from his biography of the composer, with Derek Jacobi speaking Tippett’s words.

Aug 19, 2023 | Ramblings

Sir Michael Tippett, right, with Sir Adrian Boult, left, and Ralph Vaughan Williams https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004fwm