CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST

Andrew Davis photo: Chris Christodoulou, bBC Andrew Davis conducted the BBC SO at the Barbican Hall in London. Top billing to Mic...

Piotr Beczała - photo Anja Frora Can Piotr Beczała sing the pants off Jonas Kaufmann ? Beczała is a major celebrity who could fil...

Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Hall with Janáček’s Sinfonietta , Sibelius Symphony no 5 and Szymanow...

Karol Szymanowski We mgłach (In the Mist)   Songs op 2. 5, 7, and 11 with Rafał Majzner  and  Katarzyna Rzeszutek  from Dux Recordings, ...

Wonderful article on Karol Szymaowski King Roger in Soundproof Room HERE.    This is the sort of well-informed, thoughtful writing I lov...

Ambition achieved ! Antonio Pappano brought the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House out of the pit and onto the stage, the centre of att...

Karol Szymanowski Król Roger  at the Royal Opera House, London. Szymanowski originally called it a "mysterium".  What is the ...

Karol Szymanowski's Król Roger (King Roger) op 46, at the Royal Opera House, London, from Friday  My review is HERE . . Król Roger ...

Revenge for the Boundary Wall - an opera with a title like that has got be interesting..it's a short comic opera in four acts, by Ztg...

Wonderfully evocative!  In BBC Prom 49, Sakari Oramo conducted the BBC SO showing how exotic dreams and magical tales still inspire creat...

The Royal Opera House's 2014-15 season is a good balance of artistic venture and business savvy. London must be doing something righ...

Elgar Falstaff and Tchaikovsky Symphony no 4 at BBC Proms 16?  What as the rationale?  Jac van Steen and the BBC National Orchestra of ...

Thomas Søndergård conducted Stenhammer, Szymanowski and Strauss at BBC Prom 9 (BBC National Orchestra of Wales). Why shouldn't we pla...

Gergiev's Brahms and Szymanowski series at the Edinburgh Festival, ahead of the Barbican tour later this year, has majored in loudn...