Hi,
I’m Colin Anderson, a writer on music and the editor of Classical Source.
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Cheers, Col
BBC Proms 2023 – Souvenir photo of this morning’s Relaxed Prom, No.25. Bournemouth SO/Kirill Karabits, with Felix Klieser @ Royal Albert Hall.
Photo, Mark Allan Felix Klieser horn Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Kirill Karabits Naomi Wilkinson presenterRachael Merry BSL interpreter Not broadcast on BBC Radio 3....
Sad news – composer & conductor Carl Davis has died aged 86. A selection of his soundtrack scores.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfgGx5xH2lE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjJ3vXsTWac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vykMo4eFMc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqV3e3k_XLc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-CqbKDEgCo...
BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 24: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Kirill Karabits conducts Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony & Ivan Karabits’s A Musical Gift to Kyiv, with Felix Klieser playing Mozart’s Horn Concerto K495. Live on BBC Radio 3.
Photo, Mark Allan Wednesday, August 2, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London Kirill Karabits conducted Rachmaninov's Second Symphony during BBC Proms 2011, a disappointing performance beset by balance problems and an arm's-length approach by the conductor. Something...
Ethel Smyth’s Opera Der Wald to be released on Resonus.
Resonus Classics to Release Premiere Recording of Ethel Smyth’s Opera Der Wald On 8 September 2023, Resonus Classicswill release the world premiere recording of Ethel Smyth’s one-act opera Der Wald. For over 100 years the only opera by a woman to have...
Omer Meir Wellber on tour with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie.
Omer Meir Wellber will tour Germany and Spain in August and September with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen. In ten concerts at the Musikfest Bremen, Rheingau Musik Festival and Festival Internacional Santander, among others, Wellber will present together...
BBC Proms 2023 – Souvenir photo of Prom 23: NYO Jazz (Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Jazz Orchestra) with Dee Dee Bridgewater. Tuesday August 1 @ Royal Albert Hall (late-night).
Photo, Mark Allan Dee Dee Bridgewater NYO Jazz – Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Jazz Orchestra Sean Jones trumpet/director https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001p2f3
Many Happy Returns to soprano Gundula Janowitz, 86 today.
With Herbert von Karajan
BBC Proms 2023 – Prom 22: BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Ryan Bancroft conducts Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony and Isata Kanneh-Mason plays Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto. Live on BBC Radio 3.
Photo, Yusef Bastawy Tuesday, August 1, 2023 Royal Albert Hall, London This short-measure concert, conspicuously lacking some sort of overture (how about Glinka’s to Ruslan and Ludmila?), started coldly with the most-performed of Prokofiev’s five Piano Concertos. The...
95 Organizations Throughout California Join in the California Festival, Nov 3-19, 2023.
AN FRANCISCO (August 1, 2023)—The Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Diego Symphony, and San Francisco Symphony today announced that 95 organizations will participate in the California Festival: A Celebration of New Music, presenting some of the most innovative and...