CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST

Andrew Davis conducts Elgar The Music Makers and Spirit of England Op 80 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus with Sarah Connolly an...

Chop Suey - a dish that doesn't exist in China. The word is a direct transliteration of 雜碎  which means miscellaneous left overs, r...

Charles Villiers Stanford's Mass Via Victrix , resurrected and edited by Jeremy Dibble, with Adrian Partington conducting th...

Wilfred Owen died 100 years ago, but his poetry has made him immortal.  B ut what shaped Owen's personality, and his singular art ? ...

 100 years ago, sailors in the German Navy mutinied against the Kaiser.  Another Revolution begins. The 1914-1918 war didn't end in ...

Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress , latest in Vladimir Jurowski's Stravinsky series at the Royal Festival Hall with the London...

Celebrating Polish Independence Day in advance, Paderewski, Szymański and Lutosławski with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michał...

Manfred Honeck conducted the Finnish Radio Symphony (Radion Sinfoniaorkesteri) in Shostakovich Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarrot...

W H Auden and Benjamin Britten  Benjamin Britten Ballad for Heroes , Ivor Gurney Gloucestershire Rhapsody and Arthur Bliss Mornin...

From Chandos, Sir Hubert Parry's Symphony no 4 in E minor ,with Prosperine and movements from Suite Moderne. This performance, with R...

At the Barbican, Sunday 28th October, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the declaration of the Czech Republic, a rare screening...

Is the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra entering a new era ?  In London at the start of a new international tour,  Semyon Bychkov, new Chief...

From SOMM, In remembrance , marking the end of the 1914-1918 war, choral music with organ accompaniment by Ireland, Holst, Parry, Elgar, ...

Piotr Beczała - photo Anja Frora Can Piotr Beczała sing the pants off Jonas Kaufmann ? Beczała is a major celebrity who could fil...

Stokowski and Vaughan Williams, 1956 Time to appreciate Leopold Stokowski, whose many merits are obscured by negative reactions t...