Fontaines D.C.'s decadent, dystopian vision of our time "I just want to make people really feel things about the world they live in," Grian Chatten says of *Dopamine Chamber*, which he describes as the band's at...

Fairfax Symphony opens season with a bracing double shot of premieres The Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, and its music director Christopher Zimmerman, have […]

Ionarts

A Survey of Bruckner Cycles Anton Bruckner Symphony Cycles body { font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; max-widt...

On An Overgrown Path

The concert would not be worth presenting Robert Roper's biography of Everest climber and professor of philosophy Willi Unsoeld contains the following thought-provoking quote from the great mounta...

Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists at the National, or, I'm Sorry But the Premise Just Gets More and More Unbelievable *Note: *This is a review of the only preview on Saturday 19th September 2026. The Press Night took tonight (Monday 21st September 2026). The starting poi...

How Music Can Make a City: The Louisville Example Last month, I took a trip to Louisville, Kentucky to hear the Louisville Orchestra perform a new piece by Valerie Coleman, and to meet with some of the l...

Ouverture

Vivaldi: Stabat Mater (Erato) Für Jakub Józef Orliński ist Vivaldis Stabat Mater nicht irgendein Werk: „Seit ich in der Anfangszeit meines Studiums in Warschau einzelne Sätze zu Klavie...

Judy Dunaway Interviewed Here's a lively interview with composer Judy Dunaway. Dunaway is perhaps best-known for her music for her own instrument of virtuosity, the balloon, but he...

I hop right into that car of mine and ride around the world Score: Charles Theodore Pachelbel's fragmentary life. Boston *Globe*, November 18, 2016.

Entartete Musik

Der Abschied It was a salutary experience visiting the Hôtel des Bains on the Lido in Venice last week. The site of Gustav von Aschenbach’s demise, it is one of the m...

Seen and Heard Just to let English readers know that I will review the Geneva Grand Théâtre season in their language in Seen and Heard. Here is a review of the opening pr...

BBC Music - Latest Classical Releases

Ludwig van Beethoven - Violin Sonatas (violin: Leonidas Kavakos, piano: Enrico Pace) This joyous set of Beethoven's sonatas takes its place among the very best.