Hi,
I’m Colin Anderson, a writer on music and the editor of Classical Source.
Welcome to my Column, a bit of a blog: news, reviews, things to watch, and other posts to read; a mix of things. I hope you like the contents.
Cheers, Col
BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 47: Les Siècles. François‐Xavier Roth conducts Ligeti & Mozart with Isabelle Faust & Alexander Melnikov. Live on BBC Radio 3.
Photo, Sisi Burn Sunday, August 20, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London The members of Les Siècles have a variety of instruments in their armoury, to match the era of whatever music is being played. Up-to-date for Ligeti, centuries older for Mozart. The former's early...
Many Happy Returns to Dame Janet Baker, 90 today.
With Sir Adrian Boult https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLURaAic4mE
BBC Proms 2023 – Souvenir photo of Prom 46: Manchester Collective & Rakhi Singh: Neon. Saturday August 19 @ Royal Albert Hall, London (late-night).
Photo, Andy Paradise Hannah Peel: NeonBen Nobuto: SERENITY 2.0Oliver Leith: A different ‘Fantasie from Suite No. 5 in G minor’David Lang: Mystery Sonata No. 7, ‘Glory’Steve Reich: Double Sextet Manchester CollectiveRakhi Singh (violin/director)...
BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 45: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sakari Oramo conducts Mahler’s Third Symphony, with Jenny Carlstedt. Live on BBC Radio 3.
Photo, Chris Christodoulou Saturday, August 19, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London Following his splendid Mahler Seven at this year’s Proms,...
Recommended! Michael Tippett on BBC Radio 4 Extra – Oliver Soden reads from his biography of the composer, with Derek Jacobi speaking Tippett’s words.
Sir Michael Tippett, right, with Sir Adrian Boult, left, and Ralph Vaughan Williams https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004fwm
World Orangutan Day.
BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 44: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Gemma New conducts Stravinsky’s Firebird & Symphony No.2 by Samy Moussa, with Pavel Kolesnikov playing Shostakovich’s Second Piano Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.
Photo, Chris Christodoulou Friday, August 18, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London Considering Stravinsky thought the orchestra he used for The Firebird (1910) to be "wastefully large" and he subsequently made three Suites from the ballet score, it is perhaps surprising how...
Zubin Mehta is back in Mumbai, where he was born in 1936, to conduct the Symphony Orchestra of India for the first time – tomorrow, Saturday the 19th, and Monday the 21st. Programmes include Mahler One.
Sad news: Sir Michael Parkinson (‘Parky’) – “king of the chat show”, a host of Desert Island Discs, and a cricket lover – has died at the age of 88. Interviews w/ Michael Caine, Peter Sellers, and Jacob Bronowski.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-7xyd5_IfY&list=PLo0tzmnlxcWmZFM8PRBLD_TyBSXICRmGe&index=2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mbUdsQfSq0&list=PLo0tzmnlxcWmZFM8PRBLD_TyBSXICRmGe&index=7...