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
Many Happy Returns to Mark-Anthony Turnage, 63 today. Time Flies conducted by Alan Gilbert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXcsRtOM3Qk World premiere of Time Flies; September 1, 2021; NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester/Alan Gilbert....
Duncan Ward celebrates musical homecoming with the LSO.
Charismatic British conductor Duncan Ward returns to London for two homecoming performances this Autumn with the London Symphony Orchestra. Known for the passion and insight he brings to an extraordinarily wide range of repertoire, Duncan is sought...
Riccardo Muti Returns in June to Lead the CSO in Three Programs to Close the 2022/23 Season.
Muti Leads CSO and Principal Tuba Gene Pokorny in the Orchestra’s first performances of Lalo Schifrin’s Tuba Concerto on Program withSchubert’s Symphony No. 9 (Great) (June 15-17) Muti Leads Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and Renowned Soloists in Beethoven’s...
Petr Popelka announced as next Chief Conductor of the Wiener Symphoniker.
Czech conductor Petr Popelka will become the new Chief Conductor of the Wiener Symphoniker. The orchestra's musicians voted in favour of appointing Popelka by an overwhelming majority. In the 2023/24 season, he will make a number of appearances as Chief...
RELEASED TODAY: VERBIER FESTIVAL GOLD PRESENTS AN EPIC, HONEST, MULTI-DECADE VOYAGE THROUGH THE SYMPHONIES, WITH QUARTET LEGEND GÁBOR TAKÁCS-NAGY AT THE HELM.
'THE SYMPHONIES: A BEETHOVEN JOURNEY’ FEATURES STUNNING RECORDINGS BY THE VERBIER FESTIVAL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA THAT EXPERTS HAIL AS “PASSIONATE, DIRECT, AND FRESH.” On a hot afternoon in July of 2009, the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, together with their cherished...
Sir Michael Tippett’s Second Symphony – Sir Colin Davis’s Argo recording with the LSO.
Argo ZRG 535; released 1968 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_RqTeHFZwY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gAVg8Mtz-4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6LJ1rhTxHc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4X021NAVjA John Bridcut's Tippett documentary, The Shadow and the Light:...
Deutsche Grammophon & STAGE+ celebrate Anne-Sophie Mutter’s towering artistic achievements.
“Other violinists have the tone, the technique, the understanding.But only Ms Mutter has all of this, plus that very special ‘sweep’ which envelops all that she plays” The New York Times A new 5-LP limited-edition vinyl box set is to be released on...
RELEASED TODAY, June 9: Lahav Shani & the Rotterdam Philharmonic record Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony for Warner Classics.
Originally published on May 18 There are plenty of Bruckner Seven recordings out there, beginning in 1928 with Jascha Horenstein in Berlin, its already-large discography recently increased by François-Xavier Roth,...
NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester – Herbert Blomstedt conducts Nielsen’s Fifth Symphony, with Leonidas Kavakos playing Brahms’s Violin Concerto. Live Elbphilharmonie Mediatheque/Arte Concert webcast.
Thursday, June 8, 2023 Elbphilharmonie, Platz der Deutschen Einheit 20457, Hamburg, Germany Sad to report that I had technical problems finding this live webcast, and when I did there was no sound, but the last couple of minutes of Brahms's Violin Concerto 'looked' to...