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I’m Colin Anderson, a writer on music and the editor of Classical Source.
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![The Romantic Piano Concerto #80 – Howard Shelley plays Dupont & Benoit [Hyperion]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/howard-400x250.png)
The Romantic Piano Concerto #80 – Howard Shelley plays Dupont & Benoit [Hyperion]
This long-running series is now eighty-not-out, and here focuses on two Belgian composers. Who better than Howard Shelley, who also directs Sinfonieorchester St Gallen (Switzerland), to essay the Piano Concerto No.3 in F-minor (Opus 49) by Auguste Dupont (1827-90). As...
Eileen Croxford Parkhouse 1924-2020
The Parkhouse Award is deeply saddened to announce the death of its President, Eileen Croxford Parkhouse on 8 April. Born in 1924, Eileen Croxford was one of the leading cellists of her generation. During her studies at the Royal College of Music she won the coveted...
![Beethoven 250 – Stewart Goodyear records the Five Piano Concertos [Orchid Classics]](https://www.colinscolumn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Goodyear-400x250.jpg)
Beethoven 250 – Stewart Goodyear records the Five Piano Concertos [Orchid Classics]
I could have danced all night. Maybe not! But, headphone-adorned, I did stay up into the small hours to experience Beethoven’s quintet of Piano Concertos, one after the other (two tea intervals taken), as played by Stewart Goodyear (born 1978 in Toronto) with the BBC...
Kenneth Woollam RIP
From Alexander Campbell. "Another operatic death announced on the various networks. Kenneth Woollam (16/1/37-14/4/20). Woollam was a stalwart of the ENO company from the early-1970s - singing some of the heftier roles of the spinto to dramatic tenor repertory...
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Federico Colli – Domenico Scarlatti Sonatas, Volume 2 [Chandos]
I raved about Volume 1 (link below) and its successor is just as marvellous. Here are sixteen further harpsichord Sonatas that translate brilliantly to a modern piano. So much variety in this amazing music, and Colli is so in touch with what each piece has to offer,...
John Eliot Gardiner conducts Robert Schumann – Spring, Manfred & Rhenish [LSO Live]
Sir John Eliot doesn’t hang around in the Spring Symphony, introduced with a flourish and continued in a flurry, if with no autobahn speed limits flouted, and thanks to a poised and responsive LSO there is plenty of gratifying incident. Indeed Schumann’s music works...
Kerstin Meyer RIP
From Alexander Campbell. "Just heard that the veteran Swedish mezzo-soprano Kerstin Meyer died today. She was just 92 - born on 3/4/28. Made several Royal Opera House appearances - notably as Dido in Les Troyens (1960), Octavian, Klytemnestra, and was a...
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Leonore Piano Trio plays Litolff [Hyperion]
Having worked wonders on behalf of Hubert Parry (links below), the Leonore Piano Trio (Benjamin Nabarro, Gemma Rosefield & Tim Horton) now do an International Rescue operation for Henry Charles Litolff (1818-91), born in London to a French father and Scottish...
Composer Dmitri Smirnov dies, aged 71
Boosey & Hawkes and Sikorski are sad to announce the death of Soviet-British composer Dmitri Smirnov, at the age of 71 from the consequences of COVID-19. One of the leading Russian modernist composers who studied with Denisov and Herschkowitz, Smirnov was greatly...