CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST

Big launch for the unfinished Martinů opera Le Jour de bonté (The day of charity). Czech label Arco Diva has made the world premiere recor...

Sir Charles Hubert H Parry, scion of the aristocracy, Eton toff and Oxford don. Who could be more Establishment? The irony is that the poshe...

Glyndebourne's 2011 programme is now officially out and can be seen on the Glyndebourne site.   The BIG draw will be Die Meistersinger ...

This picture looks like desert scrub. In fact it's Nagasaki, after the atomic bomb hit on 9th August 1945. In Hiroshima, a torii in a...

The BCMG (Birmingham Contemporary Music Group) came to late night Prom 28, with a programme of Hans Abrahamsen, Luke Bedford, Oliver Knussen...

Frank Chickens has been voted best British Comedy Act in 30 years, thanks to some Anglo male artist trashing them because he didn't know...

When Gergiev conducted Mahler's Fourth symphony at the Barbican in 2008, my friend and I were seated across the aisle from each other. ...

Clocks stopped at Hiroshima at 0815 on Monday 6th August 1945. Immediately, the justifications began. But can mass murder ever be condond? W...

Mahler specialist extraordinaire Professor Henry-Louis de La Grange discusses Mahler with Christoph Eschenbach.  A whole series of short cli...

For my review of Mahler 7 Metzmacher please look HERE. For Mahler 9, Haitink in 2009 please see HERE .To be honest, I did not know what to...

A little late but here's an account of the Edgard Varèse concert at the Alice Tully Hall in New York in July, by Lewis Smoley. LOTS mor...

Elgar conducts his own The Kingdom in a historic recording from the 1920's.This Saturday, it will be conducted by Andrew Partington at...

Danses macabres at Prom 22, with Mozart, Ligeti, George Benjamin and Ravel. Pierre-Laurent Aimard led the procession with Mozart's Piano...

Sixty-five years ago on Friday, atomic bombs landed on Hiroshima, then on Nagasaki.  These towns were not military targets. Most of those ki...

Introducing Dutch baritone Henk Neven! Listen to the chamber music Prom PCM3 and hear why he's hot. BBC New Generation Artists are plen...