Today sees the release on all digital platforms of “Best Out of Three”, the first recording of a piece by the proto-minimalist Philip Glass. Initially…
Blixa Bargeld: “Being on a tour is very much like working on an oil rig platform in the North Sea”. For once, and without serving…
Iceland’s Hildur Guðnadóttir premieres “The Fact of the Matter” at the BBC Proms. Icelandic composer Hildur Guðnadóttir presents The Fact of the Matter, the fifteen-minute…
Quartet Neuma performs this week in Menorca and Panticosa. The Spanish flute quartet Neuma is giving two live performances this week to present their album…
Danish composer Per Nørgård turns 90 today. The Danish composer Per Nørgård (Gentofte, 1932) turns ninety today, 13 July. He is considered one of the…
It is fifty years since the premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ opera “Taverner”. On 12 July 1972, Taverner, the most popular of the operas…
Tenth anniversary of the death of the English free improvisation saxophonist Lol Coxhill. On 10 July 2012, a few months before his 80th birthday, the…
Pascal Dusapin premieres his tenth opera, “Il Viaggio, Dante” at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. The Aix-en-Provence International Festival of Lyric Art is one of the great…
This weekend sees the premiere of the four micro-operas of the Liceu’s project “(Oh!)pera”. This weekend the Gran Teatre del Liceu is launching its (Òh!)pera…
“Umsindo Omgcolile 1” is a project based on LoFi sounds. Umsindo Omgcolile means dirty noise or filthy noise in Zulu. This album has been recorded…