CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST

Perhaps it's not so surprising few people really know who George Butterworth was. He died aged 31, but two years before that he burned ...

Mark Berry on Carter's Oboe Concerto at the Tuesday Prom : " Carter’s Oboe Concerto was written in 1986-7, shortly before he was e...

DrWho started as a TV show in Britain about 40 years ago but how it's become "part of the fabric of British society". Everyone...

Please click on the link at right to boulezian in the blogs list, Mark Berry's blog. He's been in Munich at the opera, having a Stra...

Who is Dr Who, readers outside UK might ask. Read this beautiful piece ! It's by Nick Breckenfield, so you can count on intelligence and...

Messiaen's La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jesus Christ is a blockbuster - 200+ singers, huge orchestra, 7 soloists, three banks o...

Why do people become what they come to be ? what makes a person interesting ? Jacqueline du Pre bounded into Christopher Nupen's life wh...

Goethe's Colour Wheel in music ? that's one of the premises of Simon Holt's Troubled Light premiered tonight at the Proms. Holt...

More Messiaen ? Surely not ! But if you want to learn a language, one of the best ways is to immerse yourself completely. The South Bank t...

Pamela Blevins' dual biography I vor Gurney and Marion Scott, Song of Pain and Beauty will be published by the Boydell Press in Novembe...

News of a new online music magazine that features women in music. Of course women musicians don't exist in limbo so there's plenty o...

".. ...You might have been mistaken that you were hearing the organ again in the massive, long chords that start Et exspecto resurrect...

So much of what we think we know is often rehashed second hand opinion. It takes a brave man to reconsider. That's why Ivan Hewett...

Nige's triumphant return to the Proms ! Lovely performance, but poignant, for it shows how stupid the kerfuffle of 20 years ago really ...