CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST

Silbury Hill collage, from London Sinfonietta  A great London Sinfonietta experience with Martyn Brabbins conducting Xenakis, Bir...

"Women on the podium are not my cup of tea" said Mariss Jansons, and the media exploded in indignation.  Of course sexism is w...

Hans Werner Henze works for mixed voice and chamber orchestra with SWR Vokalensemble and Ensemble Modern, conducted by Marcus Creed. We...

Dmitri Hvorostovsky is dead, aged 55, after a long battle.  It's obscene when someone so vital is cut down in their prime, with stil...

Ed Chang's brilliant GIF on Stockhausen's drawings for Cosmic Pulses (For link, read below).  Stockhausen lives again !  ...

Sorciers et sorcières- theme of the spectacle at ther Philharmonie, Paris, screened live, now on demand here   thrillingly performed by...

KarlHeinz Stockhausen lives !  For my review of Stimmung and Cosmic Pulses please read here. Two major Stockhausen events coming up. Cosm...

Du bist Orplid, mein Land! Das ferne leuchtet; Vom Meere dampfet dein besonnter Strand< Den Nebel, so der Götter Wange feuchtet. U...

British politics, surging ahead

"Celebrating English Song" new from SOMM recordings with Roderick Williams, with Susie Allan, pianist.   George Butterworth...

Robert Schumann Liederkreis op 39 ((1840) with Florian Boesch and Justus Zeyen at the Wigmore Hall, London.  In Liederkreis op 39 Schu...

Mutter, wozu hast du deinen Sohn aufgezogen? Hast dich zwanzig' Jahr mit ihm gequält?  Wozu ist er dir in deinen Arm geflogen, ...

The Wigmore Hall's complete Schubert song series continued with Julian Prégardien and Christoph Schnackertz, in a recital deferring ...

"Die Gedanken sind frei!", the rallying cry of the Romantic revolution !   The text was first written dowen in the 12th centur...