CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST

Antonín Dvořák Requiem op.89 (1890) with Jakub Hrůša conducting the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.  The Requiem was one of the last concer...

Here is a link to Mark Berry's article Power and patronage in Mozart's La clemenza di Tito and Die Zauberflöte in Boulezian - ...

A few years back  someone did a "life satisfaction" survey and Nigeria came out tops. Despite the poverty and disorder !  Peop...

As my contribution to not spreading COVID, knowingly or unknowingly, I refrained from going to what would otherwise have been a perfect ...

Simon Rattle (Photo : Doug Peters) Disastrous as COVID-19 is, can we learn from it ? At the Philharmonie, Berlin, Simon Rattle conducte...

When the world seems headed for lockdown - at least in places where COVID 19 is being taken seriously,  what are the implcations for cla...

It's International Women’s Day which these year does matter more than ever, when the forces of small minded represssion are gaining po...

George Benjamin conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall, London on 5 March, with Pierre-Laurent Aimard, in Olivie...

Father (later Saint) Joseph Freinademetz, seated, with fellow missionaries From Abtei (now Badia) one of the five Ladin speaking commun...

Parvo Järvi, NHKSO - photo Belinda Lawley     By Marc Bridle : Takemitsu, Schumann, Rachmaninoff: Sol Gabetta (cello), NHK Symphony...

Carolina Eyck, theremin On the centenary of the discovery of the theremin by Léon Theremin (1896-1993) Kalevi Aho's Acht Jahreszeit...

Photo: Roger Thomas Visceral and intense Mahler Symphony no 2 ("The Resurrection") with Jakub Hrůša conducting the Philha...

Raising the spirit of Beethoven in a musical seance "Nothing but Freedom", with Pierre-Laurent Aimard, François-Xavier Roth an...

Reinbert de Leeuw has died, aged 81. He was something of a renaissance man, interested in many things, always eager to contribute for the...