Hi,
I’m Colin Anderson, a writer on music and the editor of Classical Source.
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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...
Many Happy Returns to Martyn Brabbins, 64 today.
BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 37: Budapest Festival Orchestra (1/3). Iván Fischer conducts Weber & Mendelssohn – Der Freischütz Overture & ‘Scottish’ Symphony – with Sir András Schiff playing Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.
Photo, Mark Allan Saturday, August 12, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London An atmospheric account of the Overture to Der Freischütz (Weber condensing his opera into ten minutes of orchestral theatre) got the concert off to a suggestive and dramatic start (forest-legend...
2023 Salzburg Festival: Daniel Harding will conduct the Vienna Philharmonic, stepping in for Franz Welser-Möst.
(SF, 12 August 2023) With regret, Franz Welser-Möst must withdraw from his concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic on 20 and 21 August. He is recovering well from his orthopaedic problems but his consultants have recommended he refrain from conducting for another three...
BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 36: London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir. Edward Gardner conducts György Ligeti & Richard Strauss. Live on BBC Radio 3.
Photo, Mark Allan Friday, August 11, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London Music used by Stanley Kubrick for 2001: A Space Odyssey. Ligeti’s thirty-minute Requiem is of extreme dynamics and frequencies as it explores the mysteries of the Universe through enigmatic distance,...
Apple Music Classical partners with the Salzburg Festival.
Apple Music Classical partners with the Salzburg Festival to make available great recordings from the Festival’s archive of legendary performances and future editions. Apple Music Classical, the standalone app designed specifically for classical music, today...
Many Happy Returns to Tamás Vásáry, 90 today. Plays Chopin’s E-minor Piano Concerto No.1 (Berliner Philharmoniker/Jerzy Semkov; 1965; DG) and conducts the Overture to Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus.
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BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 35: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sakari Oramo conducts Mahler Seven, and Leila Josefowicz plays Berg’s Violin Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.
Photo, Chris Christodoulou Thursday, August 10, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London I'll now never know, but my gut-feeling was that Sir Andrew Davis conducting Mahler's Tenth Symphony (left unfinished at the composer's death and made performable by Deryck Cooke - Davis's...