Colin Clarke

@MarkValencia @operamagazine It's when the artist pens a missive like that, that the fun really begins (no names in this Tweet!)

The June edition of @operamagazine hit my doormat today. My tally: 3 reviews (Mascagni double bill by Chelsea O, La finta giardiniera at the RCM, Turn of the Screw in the Linbury) plus, as a bonus, a reader's letter saying I'm crap. 😎

Anastasia Evsina's new album, "Benediction": shorturl.at/C0nWG

@ScottCAvery Beecham popped mt Entführung cherry. Must give Solti a listen ...

my first and favorite #DieEntführungausdemSerail until I lent it to a young lady one evening. She played Chérie in #BusStop and was a fine soprano from Kansas 🌽 I played the sheriff 🎭 I never saw her or the discs again 📀 quite pleased to find this brand new copy on Friday 💎

Oh dear: theguardian.com/business/2026/…

#Haydn Baryton Trios from the Valencia Baryton Project on #Naxos: gems ripe for discovery: shorturl.at/eqFmb

Expanded #Bruckner post, From the Archives, #6: shorturl.at/qiB4T

It's May Day, the opening of the month which in medieval literature is the most magical time of the year - a season for love, fairies, and marvellous dreams aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-may-… 'When merry and hot is the day, And away be winter showers, And every field is full of flowers...'

The Academy of Ancient Music announces its new season: shorturl.at/vOD9o

More #Wozzeck: Boult and Graf. shorturl.at/3UBXS

Berg's Wozzeck at Southbank: shorturl.at/lM8k2

Today is #NationalPenguinDay so we're remembering that time we made a Penguin out of Penguin Books. It's a Penguin Penguin. 🐧

@MarkValencia hi Mark! sadly comes up as "content not available" :(

@Cageian Here you are, Colin. All seven hours of it in a good transfer. Watch it on your biggest screen. youtu.be/93fgBTbbJOI?si…

Sergei Bondarchuk's epic War and Peace (1965) is both grandiose to the nth degree and powerful in its intimate storytelling. The hours fly by.

Looking ahead to the Dresden Götterdämmerung, and reflecting on Siegfried: shorturl.at/lCyfz

A classic Salome from Bergen via Edinburgh on Chandos: shorturl.at/bRnlj

Concertos on @ChandosRecords by Edward Gregson: shorturl.at/inJVe

Leipzig's got talent: AAM at Milton Court. Graupner, Rolle, Kauffmann, Telemann, Fasch and, of course, JSB: shorturl.at/RVAU1

Filippo Gorini at Wigmore Hall: shorturl.at/53kRv

#Beethoven's first two "Razumovsky" Quartets on BIS, the Chiaroscuro Quartet in fine form: shorturl.at/bbfR

NYO Collide: the National Youth Orchestra at London's Southbank: shorturl.at/J89hA