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.
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Enescu Festival 2023 – Bayerisches Staatsorchester. Vladimir Jurowski conducts Wagner & Mahler, with Louise Alder, and Yefim Bronfman plays Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto. Live stream on Enescu Festival website, also live on Radio România Cultural.
Wednesday, September 13, 2023 Grand Palace Hall, Ion Câmpineanu 28, Bucharest, Romania Another day and another international ensemble arrives in Bucharest, this time the Bavarian State Orchestra for two evenings with Vladimir Jurowski, this first opening with the...
Lammermuir Festival faces future challenge head-on as Creative Scotland turns it down for funding in 2023.
Lammermuir Festival has been turned down by Creative Scotland’s Open Fund for funding towards this year’s festival. Over a period of 40 weeks the festival lodged three applications having been strongly encouraged by Creative Scotland officials to re-apply...
Sir Antonio Pappano concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra Barbican October 2023.
SIR ANTONIO PAPPANO CHIEF CONDUCTOR DESIGNATE CONDUCTS 5 CONCERTS LSO AND JUNG-Il OPENS THE K-MUSIC FESTIVAL WEDNESDAY 4 & THURSDAY 5 OCTOBER AT 7PM Hannah Kendall O flower of fire (world premiere)Franz Liszt Totentanz Interval – 20 minutes Richard Strauss Also...
New York Philharmonic Announces $40 Million Gift from Oscar L. Tang and Agnes Hsu-Tang, the Orchestra’s Largest-Ever Endowment Gift.
Oscar L. Tang, Agnes Hsu-Tang, Gustavo Dudamel, and Gary Ginstling (Photo by Fadi Kheir) The New York Philharmonic announces that Oscar L. Tang and Agnes Hsu-Tang have made a landmark gift of $40 million that will further expand the Orchestra’s future programming and...
Enescu Festival 2023 – George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir. Hannu Lintu conducts Britten’s Billy Budd. Live stream on Enescu Festival website, also live on Radio România Cultural.
Tuesday, September 12, 2023 Grand Palace Hall, Ion Câmpineanu 28, Bucharest, Romania These few words are merely a means of documenting one of the absolute highlights of the Enescu Festival 2023 (whatever happens next), a concert performance of Benjamin Britten's...
BBC Proms sees record-breaking figures on BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds, with 93% capacity audiences – and half of all concertgoers attending the Proms for the first time.
A record-breaking season online, with more than double the number of signed-in accounts accessing BBC Proms content on iPlayer and BBC Sounds compared to last year Nearly 1 million people watched the First Night of the Proms on BBC Two, its strongest overnight TV...
Enescu Festival 2023 – Vienna Philharmonic. Jakub Hrůša conducts Enescu, Janáček and Rachmaninov. Live stream on Enescu Festival website.
Monday, September 11, 2023 Grand Palace Hall, Ion Câmpineanu 28, Bucharest, Romania The Vienna Philharmonic's second Festival concert with Jakub Hrůša began with music from Janáček's Vixen opera, wonderfully played with rhythmic elan and tender lyricism, a whole range...
Enescu Festival 2023 – Würth Philharmoniker. Anu Tali conducts Enescu & Beethoven, including Till Fellner playing the latter’s Third Piano Concerto. Live stream on Enescu Festival website, also live on Radio România Cultural.
Monday, September 11, 2023 The Romanian Athenaeum, Bucharest The Enescu Festival 2023, which runs until the Twenty-Fourth with several events each day, has been a little short on live streams and radio broadcasts recently, so the Vienna Philharmonic and Jakub Hrůša...
