CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST

Stéphane Degout (photo: Julien Benhamou) Stéphane Degout at the Wigmore Hall, London, in Poulenc and Ravel with Cédric Tiberghien, join...

Today, the first day of the Lunar New Year, heralds the Year of the Rooster. Let's hope it's not  a cock-up like last year.  To ...

Henry-Louis de La Grange (26 May 1924 - 27 January 2017)  Henry-Louis de La Grange died this morning. He was such a vivacious personali...

The roof at the Britten Studio, Snape The 2017 Aldeburgh Music Festival marks 70 years of the festival, and 50 years at the Maltings...

At the Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg,  Ingo Metzmacher conducted the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme that might have seemed innoc...

Photo credit : Roger Thomas

The Wigmore Hall complete Schubert song series continued with a recital by Georg Nigl and Andreas Staier.  Staier's a pioneer, pro...

This was no "ordinary" event! When Simon Rattle conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in Mark-Anthony Turnage and Mahler at ...

An opportunity to hear a very unusual programme this Sunday at the Wigmore Hall. The Royal Academy of Music Song Circle presents the song...

Ian Page and Classical Opera reached 1767 in their Mozart 250 project, the ambitious series planned to cover 27 years of Mozart's mu...

The Flying Dutchman confronts Daland : Johann Reutter and Gregory Frank, photo Heiki Tuuli, Finnish National Opera An exceptional Wagn...

The City of London Corporation has announced that it will fund the completion of the study into a business case for a new, world class c...

Das Eröffnungskonzert der Elbphilharmonie, the opening concert of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg. The building looms like a giant ship ...

Winter scene in the Imperial Palace, Beijing : click on the photo and move your cursor to enlarge to appreciate the detail. The original...

Wagner Der fliegende Holländer from the Teatro Real in Madrid, with Kwangchul Youn as Daland, Samuel Youn as the Dutchman, Ingela Bri...