Hi,
I’m Colin Anderson, a writer on music and the editor of Classical Source.
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The Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Concert 2024, to be conducted by Christian Thielemann, will include a Quadrille by Bruckner, born 1824.
https://www.wienerphilharmoniker.at/en/konzerte/new-years-concert/10466/
London Symphony Orchestra – Antonio Pappano conducts Ravel’s La valse & Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances, with Patricia Kopatchinskaja playing Fazil Say’s First Violin Concerto (1001 Nights in the Harem).
Sunday, October 8, 2023 Barbican Hall, London Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga With Antonio Pappano captaining the journey, recorded for future broadcast on Mezzo (catch it when it comes), this was one of those concerts when virtuosity and art, imagination and electricity,...
Crypt Close-Ups: New immersive, intimate and informal concert series at St Martin’s.
Audiences experience ‘Secret Byrd’ in the Crypt of St Martin-in-the-Fields © Mark Allan Imaginative and engaging classical music programming continues at St Martin’s with new series of five intimate and immersive concerts in the Crypt Acclaimed and celebrated artists...
London Symphony Orchestra releases remastered collection of Elgar recordings. November 24. SYMPHONIES NOS 1–3, ENIGMA VARIATIONS, CELLO CONCERTO, MARCHES.
Since the London Symphony Orchestra’s foundation in 1904, the music and spirit of Sir Edward Elgar have lived in the Orchestra’s blood. Elgar conducted the LSO during its very first 1904–5 season of concerts, and the Orchestra’s first Principal Conductor, Hans...
Berliner Philharmoniker – Fabio Luisi conducts Marianna Martines & Franz Schmidt, with Evgeny Kissin playing Mozart. Live Digital Concert Hall webcast.
Franz Schmidt (1874-1939) Saturday, October 7, 2023 Berliner Philharmonie, Herbert-von-Karajan-Straße, Berlin Marianna Martines (1744-1812), born in Vienna, was a pupil of Joseph Haydn. Her three-movement C-major Sinfonia (flutes, oboes, horns, timpani, strings, and...
Sad news – oboist & composer Maurice Bourgue has died aged 83. Plays Britten’s Six Metamorphoses after Ovid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHij0tm5fnM
Music by Raymond Premru (1934-98) played by the Cleveland Orchestra – Concerto for Orchestra (1976) conducted by Lorin Maazel, and Symphony No.2 (1988) conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdkEkQ4NeZM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw06TEyGNj4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Premru
BBC Symphony Orchestra: opening concert of 2023-24 season. Sakari Oramo conducts Ligeti & Mahler, with Alexandra Dariescu playing Dora Pejačević’s Phantasie concertante. Live on BBC Radio 3.
Dora Pejačević (1885-1923) Friday, October 6, 2023 Barbican Hall, London During this year’s Proms season Sakari Oramo conducted outstanding performances of Mahler’s Seventh Symphony,...
INTRODUCING THE PHILHARMONIC BRASS, AN ELITE NEW ENSEMBLE FROM THE BERLIN & VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAS.
Introducing THE PHILHARMONIC BRASS AN ELITE NEW ENSEMBLE FROM THE BERLIN & VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAS LAUNCHING WITH TRACKS BY JOHN WILLIAMS FROM STAR WARS AND JURASSIC PARK FOLLOWED BY THEIR DEBUT ALBUM ‘OVERTURE!’ LISTEN TO ‘STAR...