Many Happy Returns to Martyn Brabbins – Chief Conductor, Malmö Symphony Orchestra (from September 2025) and Prince Consort Professor of Conducting, Royal College of Music (et al) – 65 today.

Martyn conducts tonight’s Prom of Elgar, Holst, Stanford (with Christopher Maltman) and Vaughan Williams.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/eq2n5v

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0021ptr

A noteworthy forthcoming Brabbins-conducted concert:

24 October 2024, 19:00, Suntory Hall
Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
Elgar: In the South, Op.50 ‘Alassio’
Finzi: Clarinet Concerto
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No.9 in E minor
Annelien van Wauwe, clarinet

A must-have recording coming soon:

The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers announce a public performance and first-ever commercial recording of Sir Michael Tippett’s New Year opera, in association with NMC Recordings.

A ten-part Brabbins miscellany:

Visions and Journeys: NMC releases orchestral works by Anthony Payne – BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis and Martyn Brabbins.

Three Choirs Festival 1996 – the Bach/Stokowski D-minor Toccata & Fugue – Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Worcester Cathedral.

BIS releases two Concertos by Nikos Skalkottas (1904-1949) – for Violin & Orchestra (George Zacharias) and for Violin, Viola & Wind Orchestra (Zacharias & Alexandros Koustas). Martyn Brabbins conducts the London Philharmonic.

Column Post #6,300 – RELEASED TODAY, May 5: Martyn Brabbins, the CBSO & University of Birmingham Voices record Sir Charles Villiers Stanford’s Requiem for Hyperion.

Harrison Birtwistle died a year ago on this date, aged 87. Martyn Brabbins conducts The Last Supper.

Martyn Brabbins conducts the premiere recording of Havergal Brian’s Faust for Dutton Epoch.

RELEASED TODAY, October 7: Martyn Brabbins & the BBC Symphony Orchestra record Vaughan Williams’s Sixth & Eighth Symphonies for Hyperion.

Pictured Within: Birthday Variations for M. C. B.

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra/Martyn Brabbins

https://www.classicalsource.com/prom/prom-35-preview-martyn-brabbins-introduces-pictured-within-birthday-variations-for-m-c-b-august-13-7-p-m

00:00 Theme (anonymous) 01:31 Variation I: Dai Fujikura 04:12 Variation II: David Sawer 05:11 Variation III: Sally Beamish 07:00 Variation IV: Colin Matthews 07:51 Variation V: Iris ter Schiphorst 10:00 Variation VI: Brett Dean 12:42 Variation VII: Wim Henderickx 14:49 Variation VIII: Richard Blackford 17:29 Variation IX: Harrison Birtwistle 22:34 Variation X: Judith Weir 25:30 Variation XI: Gavin Bryars 26:44 Variation XII: Kalevi Aho 29:53 Variation XIII: Anthony Payne 33:43 Variation XIV: John Pickard

World premiere; August 13, 2019; BBC Proms; photo by Chris Christodoulou.