CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST

Vivaldi Orlando Furioso from Teatro la Fenice in Venice, conducted by Diego Fsolis, directed by Fabio Ceresa with a ...

J M W Turner : A Study in light Franz Schubert Der liebliche Stern D861 (1825)  starts out simply enough. Short repeating figur...

What, not his gardening skills ? Or cooking skills ?

New from Harmonia Mundi,  Perpetual Night. a superb recording of ayres and songs from the 17th century, by Ensemble Correspondances with ...

Elgar conducting Yehudi Menuhin, 1932 Blast from the past ! Revisiting Hope and Glory, a Portrait of Elgar first broadcast on the...

Who is the new Prince Louis named after, huh ?  A gentle reminder to the rabid that The Battenbergs and Hesses were immigrants, too.  Not a...

Sir Charles Hubert Parry was, arguably, the founder of modern British music. Elgar didn't teach, except by example. Parry was both co...

Matthias Goerne and Seong-jin Cho at the Wigmore Hall, London, in a demanding programme - Hugo Wolf Drei Gedichte von Michelangelo , Han...

Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra in Michael Tippett The Rose Lake and Mahler  Symphony no 10   (Cooke III performing edi...

God Save the Queen, and long may she reign ! In her rests what is good about the monarchy - above the cheap sideshows of petty politics....

A fake antique ! An early postacrd revived as Shell ad in the 1970's. Proms planners these days pride themselves on workin...

Please help save St John's Smith Square ! Follow THIS LINK to see what's happening and why we need to do something.  I've ma...

Christoph Prégardien at the Wigmore Hall, welcomed return of the perennial favourite of Wigmore Hall audiences. Prégardien and Julius D...

|Though many in this period were so innocent, these two may might have been having a laugh, without knowing what cross dressing is.

When Sir Andrew Davis conducts Elgar, it's always an occasion, but this concert  at the Barbican, London, was much more special than...