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I’m Colin Anderson, a writer on music and the editor of Classical Source.
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Released today Voces8 – A Choral Christmas & Benjamin Britten – War Requiem.
Decca Classics is proud to mark the 60th anniversary of Britten’s 1963 recording of his ‘War Requiem’ with a new high-definition transfer of this double GRAMMY Award-winning album. "THIS TAPE WILL NOT PLAY WITHOUT OXIDE SHEDDING!!!" was...
Released today Voces8 – A Choral Christmas & Benjamin Britten – War Requiem.
Joined by the VOCES8 Foundation Choir and Orchestra conducted by Barnaby Smith, internationally acclaimed, Grammy-nominated ensemble VOCES8 is pleased to release its new album 'A Choral Christmas' on Decca Classics ztoday. Capturing...
Britten Pears Arts announces its January to May 2024 season.
Highlights include: Easter Weekend features The Sixteen and Harry Christophers Visiting artists and ensembles include the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and pianist Sir András Schiff; mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená and pianist Mitsuko Uchida; and Aurora...
December 1: Sony Classical Presents Cleveland Quartet – The Complete RCA Album Collection.
The complete RCA Red Seal Recordings of the Cleveland Quartet from 1972 to 1979, featuring the major works for string quartet in analogue recorded sound 18 out of 23 LPs in this set appearing on CD for the first time, remastered from the original master tapes using 24...
BBC Radio 3 – Shakespeare Day on Wednesday 8 November.
Next Wednesday BBC Radio 3 marks the 400th anniversary of the first printed collection of Shakespeare’s plays, the First Folio, with a special Shakespeare Day of programming completely dedicated to the Bard. From 7am to 7pm, every work broadcast on the station over 12...
BBC Symphony Orchestra / Change of Conductor / Friday 3 November 2023.
Eva Ollikainen has had to withdraw from conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra’s The Faun and the Firebird concert at the Barbican on Friday. We are grateful to Roderick Cox who will conduct in her place. The programme remains unchanged....
Yuri Temirkanov conducts Tchaikovsky’s ‘Pathétique’ Symphony. St Petersburg Philharmonic; Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris; undated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt-kxVCXy48 https://www.colinscolumn.com/sad-news-yuri-temirkanov-has-died-aged-83/
Sad news – Yuri Temirkanov has died aged 84.
Chandos releases Airat Ichmouratov conducting the LSO in his Piano and Viola Concertos with Jean-Philippe Sylvestre and Elvira Misbakhova.
Guest Reviewer, Ateş Orga Working in the BBC Music Division fifty years ago, touchstone of post-war British Establishment culture, anything east of the Danube, south of Yucatán, the African continent Sahara to Kalahari, the central Asian land-mass, was niche...