CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST

Tomorrow at the Wigmore Hall, an extremely interesting programme of Schubert Lieder with Stuart Jackson, Marcus Farnsworth and James Bai...

On this day in 1963, JFK was assassinated. How happy he seems here. A few moments later, Jackie would be crawling over the back seat of ...

Schubert Winterriese with a difference, with Matthias Loibner, master Hurdy Gurdy player.  At first i could hardly believe my ears, but...

Hugo Wolf's Das Fest auf Solhaug (1890-91) was written for a Vienna production of Henrik Ibsen's Gildet paa Solhaug (1856) . W...

K A Hartmann Simplicius Simplicissimuss with Independent Opera at the Lilian Baylis Studio this week, with Stephanie Corley, Timothy R...

Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla conducted the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Mahler Symphony no 1 , Haydn Symphony no 6 and the premiere...

Shakespeare re-imagined for the very Late Baroque, with Bampton Classical Opera at St John's Smith Square.  "Shakespeare, Shak...

There's a place for Over The Top Berlioz, and the Royal Albert Hall, London was made for over the top. Berlioz Grand Messe des Mort...

Photo: ; Markus Sepperer Beat Furrer's FAMA came to London at last, with the London Sinfonietta. The piece was hailed as "a ...

Karajan in Paris, during the Occupation

"Bible-reading, pork chop eating, just plain folks".  When The People, whoever they may be, place their faith in "demagog...

Have the Gates of Hell opened?  Have we reached the End of Time?  Has The Universal Troll triumphed again ?

Whatever happens this November 8th, we are in for disturbing times. In Britain, we should be remembering The People's Court where ju...

  "An inhabited landscape", Ivor Gurney and his sensitivity to the human landscape around him, past and present. He was obser...

This recent release of works by Erkki Melartin  (1875-1937) from Ondine, with Soile Isokoski and Hannu Lintu conducting the Finnish Radio...