CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST

Live from the Semperoper, Dresden, this year's Silvesterkonzert : Franz Lehar, extracts from Das Land des Lächelns with Christian T...

Vienna Philharmoniker conducted by Andris Nelsons LIVE BBC TV2 on 1/1/2020 at 1015 and many other sources Staatskapelle Dresden cond...

Announced a few minutes ago in Dresden, the death of Peter Schreier after a long illness, aged 84. It is particularly ironic that he died...

The Infant Jesus, holding the world in his hands, carved in ivory in the 17th century.  Once ivory objects were made all over Asia and E...

The Nativity, a painting by Lu Hong nian ( 陸鴻年) 1914-1989. Summoned by Chinese angels, shepherds are arriving at the cave in which Mary...

photo: Jean-Christophe BENOIST [CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)] This year's Christmas schedule on B...

In a dream I was in modern day Macau in a tiny apartment. Below, in the street, was a pedicab driver ,looking for work. Usually they only...

Exciting news about the 2020 Aldeburgh Music Festival.   Back to the future, in the sense that  the festival is returning to its roots, ...

Brilliant Emmerich Kálmán Ein Herbstmanöver from the Stadttheater, Giessen in 2018, conducted by Michael Hofstetter now on Oehms Class...

Alua or Aluar, traditional Christmas delicacy in Macau. As the photo shows, it's now sold in shops as "Western style Nien Go...

“Revolution in the Head" strange title for the concert by Vladmir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festiv...

Baroque Odyssey - major retrospective at the Barbican, London,  honouring Les Arts Florissants.  " This gala performance at the Bar...

At the Barbican, London, Semyon Bychkov conducted Detlev Glanert's Requiem for Hieronymus Bosch , commissioned for the 500th anniver...

Plenty of good Mariss Jansons classic concerts online now, in memorial.  Mariss Janson's last concert at Het Concertgebouw, Amsterd...

Latest in the Hyperion series, Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphonies no 3 and 4 , with Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, reco...