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 2026 – for Sunday August 9 – Relaxed Proms (at Albert Hall & at Bristol Beacon). Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles (Bristol). Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments (Komsi & Oramo; Bristol). OAE @ RAH, evening, Mozart and Haydn. For the record.
Photo - BBC/Mark Allan - from this morning's Relaxed Prom at Royal Albert Hall. BBC Singers Fantasia Orchestra Tom Fetherstonhaugh conductor YolanDa Brown presenter https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/rpgwrz/by/date/2026/08/09
Nicola Benedetti Turns Off Audiences’ Phones Ahead of Edinburgh International Festival Concert.
Nicola Benedetti helps an audience member with their phone, credit Matt Beech7-30 AUGUST 2026 eif.co.uk / @edintfest Edinburgh International Festival initiates ‘Lights Down, Phones Off’, with Festival Director Nicola Benedetti helping to turn off phones at...
BBC Proms 2026 – National Youth Orchestra – Thomas Adès conducts Mephisto Waltz No.1; Dante – II: ‘Purgatorio’, and Symphonie fantastique.
Photo, BBC/Chris Christodoulou REVIEWED FROM LIVE RELAY ON BBC RADIO 3 Saturday, August 8, 2026 Royal Albert Hall, London Clever programming placed the Berlioz into a related context that made the work seem less ubiquitous than it is (Radio 3 never missing a chance to...
BBC Proms 2026 @ Bristol Beacon on Saturday August 8 at 17:00. Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Adam Hickox with Maximilian Hornung. For the record.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/emr84f (details) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ztdm (broadcast)
![BBC Proms 2006 – BBC Young Composer Workshop on Saturday August 8 @ 10.30 a.m. at Bristol Beacon. [Posted for the record.]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/proms26-2-400x250.jpg)
BBC Proms 2006 – BBC Young Composer Workshop on Saturday August 8 @ 10.30 a.m. at Bristol Beacon. [Posted for the record.]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e5vbc8
BBC Proms 2026 @ Bristol Beacon on Friday August 7 at 19:30. Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians. For the record.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/efm6gw (details) https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ztdr (broadcast)
Additional photo (1) for… BBC Proms 2026 – BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus – Nil Venditti conducts Respighi’s Vetrate di chiesa/Church Windows & Rossini’s Stabat mater.
Photo, BBC/Mark Allan https://www.colinscolumn.com/bbc-proms-2026-bbc-symphony-orchestra-chorus-nil-venditti-conducts-respighis-vetrate-di-chiesa-church-windows-rossinis-stabat-mater/
BBC Proms 2026 – BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus – Nil Venditti conducts Respighi’s Vetrate di chiesa/Church Windows & Rossini’s Stabat mater.
Photo, BBC/Mark Allan REVIEWED FROM LIVE RELAY ON BBC RADIO 3 Friday, August 7, 2026 Royal Albert Hall, London Respighi's Church Windows (1925-26, premiered the following year in Boston conducted by Koussevitzky) may not have visited the Proms before (despite...
Eric Whitacre announces new album Eternity in an Hour, out 23 October.
GRAMMY AWARD-WINNING COMPOSER AND CONDUCTOR ERIC WHITACRE ANNOUNCES ETERNITY IN AN HOUR AN HOUR-LONG MEDITATION FOR CHOIR, CELLO, PIANO AND LIVE ELECTRONICS, INSPIRED BY THE POETRY OF WILLIAM BLAKE RELEASED BY DECCA CLASSICS ON 23 OCTOBER 2026 Out today: “Eternity in...
Additional photo (2) for… BBC Proms 2026 on Thursday August 6 @ Royal Albert Hall, London – Sir Mark Elder conducts Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique & Monteverdi Choir in Weber’s opera Oberon, Nicky Spence in title role.
Photo, BBC/Chris Christodoulou https://www.colinscolumn.com/bbc-proms-2026-on-thursday-august-6-royal-albert-hall-london-sir-mark-elder-conducts-orchestre-revolutionnaire-et-romantique-monteverdi-choir-in-webers-opera-oberon-nicky-spence-in-title/