CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST

On Friday October 10th BBC 4 TV will be screenin g a film about Itzhak Perlman. Perlman wanted to be a violinist from age 3 but then he got ...

Grace Chang (Ge Lan) is an icon of 1950's Chinese movies. She's wonderful, a truly "modern" liberated girl, who dances the...

Last June I went to Amsterdam to the great, lively Holland Festival and heard Janacek's From the House of the Dead conducted by Pierre ...

Two approaches to Michelangelo (Wolf and Shostakovich) and Goerne's trademark Brahms's Vier Ernste Gesange . Definitely a program...

The autumn issue of The Maud Powell Signature, Women in Music is now available on line free at http://www.maudpowell.org/signature/ This is...

Thomas Larcher's Die Nacht der Velorenen really is an interesting work, which we'll probably hear more of. His publishers are S...

Kings Place opened with a bang – literally – as the builders were still about hammering, while the first concert took place. Melinda Maxwe...

"..and in this storm, these thundering waves, this war of wars, nothing survives but bankruptcy and disgrace, the face of a child, dist...

Brand new recording of Britten's Billy Budd. Daniel Harding conducts the LSO at the Barbican. This performance changed the whole way ...

From the US I just received some of the most SPECTACULAR series of photos of London, taken from the air at night. Look below at the link W...

Kings Place, King's Cross - remember where the apostrophes go, because we'll be seeing a lot of that phrase. This is the biggest ne...

The Rise and Fall of Mahagonny opened the Ediburgh Festival this year, conducted by my hero, the inimitable HK Gruber. It's being broad...

This time, next Friday evening, on BBC4, Jackie Du Pré will light up our screens again. Jacqueline du Pré in Portrait opens a season of F...

The Proms are alive and well, but post mortem is a better term than "de- briefing" or whatever the buzz word may be. This has bee...