This year Chigiana International Festival presents Yann Robin’s new opera Medusa, inspired by Alessandro Scarlatti and Caravaggio – music poised between past and future.
On the centenary of Pierre Boulez’s birth, Phillippe Manoury tells us about his relationship with the composer and conductor, painting a picture which bucks some pre-conceived ideas.
Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan and US jazz pianist and composer Herbie Hancock, together with British rock band Queen, join an illustrious list group of musicians to win the Swedish prizes.
Barbara Hannigan talks about her relationship with Boulez, on singing Pli selon pli, and returning to the London Symphony Orchestra to conduct two programmes this season.
What makes Suntory Hall, Disney Hall, the Philharmonie de Paris, the Elbphilharmonie and 28 others sound the way they do? The work of Yasuhisa Toyota and Nagata Acoustics. We learn more...
Sam Johnstone is a musician and writer based in Berlin. He has written on classical, contemporary and world music for Sinfini Music, The Cusp and World Music Network, and about the influence of the avant-garde on contemporary music in Germany and Japan whilst studying at Oxford University and SOAS, University of London. Sam blogs at www.spljohnstone.com and tweets at @spljohnstone
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