CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST

“Dulce periculum est” (danger is sweet), ends the ode from Horace set by Wolfgang Rihm, Quo me rapis. The poet is going where “nothing is ...

Really interesting recording, this : http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2008/June08/Mahler10_Harding_4777347.htm “Mahler go...

It's Proms time again and we can all listen together ! This gives links to the schedule and details of how to listen from all over the ...

On a summer Sunday afternoon, out in the countryside around Aldeburgh, do you really want doom and gloom ? But if you like Lieder, doom and ...

S aturday night I was at a concert with an interesting programme : Haydn : Symphony no 22 "The Philosopher" Schoenberg : Three Pi...

Here's a hilarious review of Messiaen's St Francis of Assisi in Amsterdam. http://www.operatoday.com/content/2008/06/st_francis_in_a...

Here's where you can buy the reissue of the DVD set of this Chinese opera. Have a look ! GREAT pictures ! This is also one of the good ...

Last week I attended the Peony Pavilion, a 16th century Chinese opera. It was fun ! Anyone can enjoy Chinese opera if they have a mind to -...

Jim Zychowicz at the Chicago production of John Adams A Flowering Tree : http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2008/ Jan-Jun08/adams2...

Messiaen and Chinese opera ? But yes ! These last few weeks I've been listening to Messiaen's St Francis of Assisi and to the Chine...

Pere Ubu, Roi de l' avant-garage, Cleveland's gift to the world... There is NOTHING like Pere Ubu in the incarnation of David Thomas...

http://www.musicweb-international.com/SandH/2007/Jul-Dec07/nono0110.htm Luigi Nono: Fragments of Venice : (Opening concert) London Sinfonie...

Louis Lortie (piano), The Maltings, Snape, Aldeburgh , England . 18.06.2007 (AO) This year’s Aldeburgh Festival is programmed around ...

L uigi Nono: Fragments of Venice – Arditti Quartet, 23 October 2007 Queen Elizabeth Hall Webern – Six Bagatelles, op.9 Nono – Fragment...

Luigi Nono : Fragments of Venice (3): Schoenberg, Berg, Nono Maurizio Pollini (piano), André...