CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST

Fifteen BILLION view between 19th July and 1 September,  and half a billion on one day alone (August 12th). Phenomenal viewing figures b...

Continuing the London Philharmonic Orchestra's year-long Stravinsky series at the Royal Festival Hall, Thomas Adès conducted Stravin...

Listening again to Franz Schreker's Die Geburtstag der Infantin (The Birthday of the Infanta) in both the 1908/9 original (Jürgen Br...

For the Mid-Autumn Festival  and the full moon tonight, Autumn comes to the Purple Myrtle Garden   (紫薇園的秋天) (Tse Mei Yuen Chau Tien) an...

Harmonia Mundi continues its comprehensive series of the works of Claude Debussy with this new 2 CD set of Debussy's songs for voice...

So Teresa May is mad that she didn't get respect from Salzburg ?? Since her own party and her "People" had no  plans in the...

Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Hall with Janáček’s Sinfonietta , Sibelius Symphony no 5 and Szymanow...

Ian Bostridge and Thomas Adès in Schubert Winterreise at the Wigmore Hall. Please read Claire Seymour's review here in Opera Today....

Sir Simon Rattle, photo; Oliver Helbig, courtesy Askonas Holt Sir Simon Rattle and the  London Symphony Orchestra marked the open...

The young baritone Andrè Schuen is attracting a lot of interest among Lieder aficionados. A friend who heard him at the Schwarzenberg Sch...

From Hyperion, an excellent new Ralph Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony with Martyn Brabbins conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra and B...

Seventeen years since 9/11 and so much has changed, for the worse.  From the wreckage,  came messages of love. Instead, hate has seeped i...

To mark the start of the Wigmore Hall's 2018/19 season, Florian Boesch and Malcolm Martineau in a characteristically thought-provo...

ENO Studio Live at Wilton's Music Hall for Benjamin Britten Paul Bunyan in a new production.  Please read Claire Seymour's revi...