CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST

Carl Nielsen Prom 46 at the Royal Albert Hall, London, with Fabio Luisi conducting the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.  Nielsen's n...

Hearing the silence ?  I've been watching the documentary Claudio Abbado: Hearing the Silence, by Paul Smaczny, available through E...

Christian Thielemann's Tristan und Isolde is powerfully demonic. When I heard it broadcast audio-only, the orchestral playing mesm...

Now on BBC Radio 3 the 2013 recording by Tomáš Netopil of Janácek, The  Glagolitic Mass and The Eternal Gospel . Listen for free on the ...

Beethoven's  Fidelio is an opera designed to provoke outrage. Any production that doesn't provoke is a betrayal of the composer...

Perhaps the best Prom of the season so far - BBC Prom 36 Boulez, Ravel, Stravinsky with Francois-Xavier Roth and the BBCSO.  Roth, like ...

Revolution in the Air!  Beethoven Symphony no 5 and Berlioz Symphonie fantastique , each of them explosive works that would change the ...

Seventy years ago today, on August 9th 1945, an atom bomb fell on Nagasaki.Why Nagasaki ? The most westernized city in Japan, the centr...

Lam Kar Sing has died. Imagine if dozens of big names in the western opera, film, drama, popular music,  historians, athletes and arts nam...

Seventy years ago today, Hiroshima was destroyed. Never must we ever forget. Today, we are in danger of taking  Hiroshima for granted ...

The full Monty! Prom 25, MonteVerdi L'Orfeo with John Eliot Gardiner.  Utterly outstanding, vibrant with life and energy. Eurydice d...

HERE is the schedule for BR Klassik's 2015 Bayreuth Festival broadcasts Highest recommendation Christian Thielemann's devast...

Puccini Manon Lescaut at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich. Some will scream in rage but in its austerity it reaches to the heart of th...

Prom 17 at the Royal Albert Hall, London, Sir Mark Elder conducting Vaughan Williams and Elgar, with the Hallé, an orchestra with a gold...

At BBC Prom 15, Xian Zhang did wonders with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales . Tonight, they seemed transformed, totally ener...