CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST

Imagine a TV show first screened on 19th July this year, yet already viewed tens of millions of times, sweeping across Chinese communiti...

From A E Housman's On Wenlock Edge , set by Ralph Vaughan Williams, "Clun" the last song, tucked away at the end when all ...

"Stop right there, monster, or I'll ..... strike a match ! Gold standard matches, from Shanghai, after 1933

Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, BBC Prom 54 at the Royal Albert Hall, with Enescu, Bartók and Mahler with Anna Lucia R...

Per Nørgård Proms 50 and 51 with Thomas Dausgaard conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. The first presented Mozart...

Sir Simon Rattle's all-Ravel BBC Prom 48 was a highlight of the season. Rattle's Ravel is highly individual, alert to whimsy and...

The Hills of Dreamland - Edward Elgar orchestral songs, new from Somm Recordings, sponsored by the Elgar Society.  Elgar's genius for...

Onnee oi EP! ! Esa Pekka Salonen's 60 th Birthday celebrated in style livestream from the Helsinki Festival, marking its 50th anniv...

  The Song of the Phoenix (2016)(百鸟朝凤) was the last film completed by Wu Tian Ming (吳天明), one of the seminal figures in modern Chines...

Prom 41 at the Royal Albert Hall, London, with Edward Gardner conducting the BBCSO in Vaughan Williams' Dona nobis pacem , Elgar...

Ao longo da viola morosa Vai adormecendo a parlenda, Sem que, amadornado, eu atenda A lengalenga fastidiosa. Sem que o meu coração se pre...

In 1755, Lisbon was destroyed, first by a massive earthquake, then by a tsunami pouring in from the Atlantic, then by fire and civil unre...

photo : Bayreuther Festspiele : E Narwath  When Piotr Beczała jumped in for Lohengrin at Bayreuth, I breathed a sigh of relief. I...

Seventy three years ago today, a bomb fell on Hiroshima.  Many official reasons why, such as ending the war and saving the lives of POWS...

At the Three Choirs Festival today,  Hubert Parry Invocation to Music (1895). Sir Andrew Davis conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra and ...