CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST

Robert Wiene's Genuine the Vampire (1920) was  eclipsed by The Cabinet of Dr Caligari , completed a few months earlier. But Genuine ...

More Weimar silhouettes from Lotte Reiniger, this time a ten-minute fantasy on Papageno , made in 1935 as part of her projected series ...

VOTE NOW - voting ends tomorrow - for the South Bank Breakthrough Awards. Results will be unveiled later this month on Sky HD. These awards...

At the Wigmore Hall, London, Matthias Goerne and Lief Ove Andsnes performed Mahler in a unique programme built around Shostakovich's ...

Another chance to hear Richard Strauss Elektra  from the Royal Opera House : listen here on BBC Radio 3. Christine Goerke, Adrianne Pie...

The classic recording of Hugo Wolf's Spanisches Liederbuch is the version with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, w...

Back to real music at the Wigmore Hall in January! On Saturday all day, Apartment House presents an eclectic programme. Interesting, even...

On New Year's Eve, the Met unveiled its new Strauss Die Fledermaus , directed by Jeremy Sams.  From still photos, it looks stu...

Thank you so much Andrzej for this list of international internet broadcasts for first week of January : 31/12 Berlin Philharmoniker Si...

100 years ago today - the world was still innocent, oblivious of what was to come. New Year 1915 greetings cards depicted military image...

Midnight Macau time - 4pm GMT

Not so much the highs and lows of 2013 but a guess at what the year might have meant. Anniversary years bring composers mass publicity bu...

At last online , Dimitri Shostakovich's "lost" ballet Bolt , the famous Bolshoi production choreographed  by Alexei Ratma...

Merry Widow no more : Martha Eggerth died yesterday aged 101. Eggerth and her husband Jan Kiepura were the stars of Central European musi...