Hi,
I’m Colin Anderson, a writer on music and the editor of Classical Source.
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The Mozartists announce a new album release and two new concerts continuing their ground-breaking MOZART 250 series.
The Mozartists announce a new album release and two new concerts continuing their ground-breaking MOZART 250 series Sturm und Drang 36 October 2023 (Signum Classics) The Mozartists’ highly acclaimed ‘Sturm und Drang’ series of recordings continues with...
BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 40: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sakari Oramo conducts Dora Pejačević’s Symphony in F-sharp minor, with Martin Helmchen playing Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.
Photo, Sisi Burn Monday, August 14, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London Following a previous London performance,...
Many Happy Returns to Roger Wright, 67 today.
https://www.colinscolumn.com/roger-wright-to-step-down-as-chief-executive-of-britten-pears-arts-in-july-2024/
Salzburg Festival 2023: Igor Levit will take on the solo piano part in the concert of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, stepping in for Martha Argerich.
Press Release of the 2023 Salzburg FestivalIgor Levit will take on the solo piano partin the concert of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestraunder the baton of Daniel Barenboim,stepping in for Martha Argerich Igor Levit © Felix Broede (SF, 14 August 2023) To her great...
BBC confirms sale of its Maida Vale Studios.
The BBC has today announced that its Maida Vale recording studios have now been sold. Maida Vale Studios has become a much-loved and seminal part of musical history, having been bought by the BBC in 1933. Since then, it has seen the likes of David Bowie, The...
Sad news – Sherban Lupu has died aged 71.
Sad news – Berit Lindholm has died aged 88.
https://www.colinscolumn.com/swedish-soprano-berit-lindholm-born-1934-has-been-awarded-the-gold-medal-of-fackforbundet-scen-film-sings-cassandra-from-berliozs-trojans-colin-daviss-royal-opera-philips-recording-a/...
BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 39: Budapest Festival Orchestra (3/3). Iván Fischer conducts Beethoven’s ‘Eroica’ Symphony, with Anna-Lena Elbert performing Ligeti’s Mysteries of the Macabre and Sir András Schiff playing Bartók’s Piano Concerto No.3. Live on BBC Radio 3.
Photo, Chris Christodoulou Sunday, August 13, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London A bizarre start, an excerpt (arranged by Elgar Howarth) from Ligeti's opera Le Grand Macabre, music that is extreme and surreal, unpredictable, humorous, a showcase for the exceptional...
BBC Proms 2023 – Souvenir photo of Prom 38: Budapest Festival Orchestra (2/3). Iván Fischer conducts the Audience Choice Prom. The afternoon of Sunday August 13 @ Royal Albert Hall, London.
Photo, Chris Christodoulou Glinka, Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila Tchaikovsky, Symphony 4 (first movement) Beethoven, Symphony 6 (Pastoral; (ii) Scene by the Brook) Dvořák, Symphony 7 (third movement; incomplete: without Trio and Scherzo da capo) Mendelssohn, Symphony...