CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST

John Bridcut's film The Passions of Vaughan Williams is now available on DVD, marking the 60th anniversary of the death of Ralph Vau...

A landmark production of Hans Werner Henze's Das Floß der Medusa (The Raft of the Medusa) conducted by Ingo Metzmacher in Amsterdam...

New from SOMM recordings, the second volume from Hubert Parry's English Lyrics .   Between 1874 and 1918, Parry wrote 74 songs in twe...

Hubert Parry's The Soul's Ransom (1906) has been called an "experimental masterpiece", one of the first successful Eng...

This year Easter coincides with April Fool.  Who are these babes who've popped out of the Easter Egg, on the battlefront in 1918? A...

Revealed at last, the secret of Kundry's Balsam !  Liebig's Fleisch-extract.  Nothing like a dose of meat essence.

Q Nearly 40 years ago, in a junk shop in what was then a remote village in South Buckinghamshire, I found a musty old treatise on treati...

A few weeks to go before the Proms are announced, but high time someone should look at the website.  There's a bug in the system, bl...

Debussy and Stravinsky, 1910 On the centenary of Debussy's death, "Debussy and Beyond", with the London Symphony Or...

Today, 100 years ago Claude Debussy was still alive....  Tomorrow marks the 100th anniversary of his death. I'll be hearing La Mer ...

The Harbour Scene in Glière's The Red Poppy As part of the Voices of Revolution series at the South Bank, Vladimir Ashkenazy...

Britten and Menuhin, 1955  Sakari Oramo conducted the BBC SO at the Barbican last night : Anna Clyne and Benjamin Britten   Tw...

Bronislava and Vaclav Nijinsky with Maurice Ravel, Paris : Photo: Igor Stravinksy Vladmir Jurowski's Stravinsky Journey with ...

At the Wigmore Hall, London, music for wind quintet by Harrison Birtwistle, Elliott Carter, Heinz Holliger, John Cage and Blaise Ubaldini...