‘Prelude & Liebestod’ from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde – with Jessye Norman – and Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé. BBC Symphony Orchestra and choruses conducted by Pierre Boulez. September 9, 1977, Royal Albert Hall, London; BBC Proms.
Pierre Boulez...
Vaughan Williams’s Sixth Symphony – Hallé Orchestra conducted by James Loughran. July 21, 1976, Royal Albert Hall, London; BBC Proms.
James Loughran (born...
Many Happy Returns to Robin Holloway, 80 today.
A Holloway miscellany: his orchestrations of Debussy songs, https://www.colinscolumn.com/alpha-classics-releases-mikko-franck-conducting-debussy-la-mer-and-with-vannina-santoni-cest-lextase-robin-holloways-orchestrations-of-debussys-verlain/; his orchestrations of...
Wishing David a speedy recovery. John Wilson conducts ‘Make our Garden Grow’ from Candide (music by Leonard Bernstein). BBC Proms 2015.
John Wilson Orchestra; Scarlet Strallen; Julian Ovenden; Louise Dearman; Lucy Schaufer and the Maida Vale...