classical Archives

A Heroic Step Forward for Quest Ensemble

14/08/2020

Classical progressives Quest Ensemble's Other Side points us forward from genre to musical discovery. Has classical music rediscovered originality? ...

Chapters by Penguin Cafe Orchestra [Video]

12/09/2019

The captivating new single-shot video for ‘Chapter’ was filmed in New York on The Roosevelt Island Tramway at Queensboro Bridge. ...

Genres: We’re Going to Need a Bigger Box

05/06/2017

Searching for antidotes to the Genre-Box-Pox...

CAN: Unreleased Material. The Can Project: Barbican and Glastonbury Sets

05/04/2017

New releases, biography readings and gigs by the Can Project usher in a spring/summer of CAN related events...

Outside of the music, it’s a little quiet…. Dead Light (Interview)

15/11/2016

Dead Light, makers of 2016's intricate electro/ambient/classical apogee, discuss their debut album....

Who’s Afraid of Tonality? (Max Richter, Sleep @ Barbican)

01/06/2016

As much gig as concert, The Barbican turns to Max Richter for crowd-pulling contemporary performance. Review...

Cleaning ladies also experience the sublime (Aine O’Dwyer)

16/06/2015

Where Scarlatti or Bach strove to elevate the consciousness with uplifting symmetrical counterpoint, O'Dwyer reaches into a slightly different church music tradition...

Integration and interrelation between the orchestral and the electronic [Michael Price]

12/03/2015

As an exercise in demonstrating the possibilities of digital/orchestral enmeshment, Entanglement is at the top table. ...

Our ‘songlines’ are contained in our technology, we are technological beings [Cristian Vogel]

15/02/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”W/dropcapith releases spanning two decades, Cristian Vogel is widely recognised as one of the more thoughtful and inventive producers of his...

Max Richter : Royal Albert Hall [Live]

27/10/2014

The final word is this was a truly historic evening for music, and Vivaldi’s reputation to wow audiences shines undimmed. ...

Midsummer Music Festival 2014

04/06/2014

Midsummer Music Festival gathers some of the world's finest classical musicians into an intimate and charming performance space....

Max Richter – Memoryhouse revisited

28/11/2013

Vinyl release of Max Richter's memoryhouse and a rare Barbican performance on Jan 24 of this masterwork. ...

I have not gone out of my way to mythologise myself, but… Michael Finnissy

03/02/2013

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;”S/dropcapince the late 60’s Michael Finnissy has been composing classical work that challenges, shakes and agitates the listener from...

Eyvind Kang: The Narrow Garden

19/01/2012

The fine folded pressures of the lidless eye. Renowned through his collaborations with John Zorn, Mike Patton, and Trey Spruance, Eyvind Kang has become the go-to violin guy for a certain strain of...