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Hannigan plays with expectations, opening with a single spotlight after a complete stage blackout to dramatic effect, and I am pretty sure she was rocking slippers on stage. 

Vladimir Jurowski is fond of grand statements, and sometimes off-the-wall programming – genius when it works, baffling when it doesn’t. 

On the eve of the Musikfest Berlin, Isabelle Faust’s performance of Luigi Nono’s La lontananza nostalgica utopica futura was an extraordinary time capsule back to the work’s premiere in 1988.

Luigi Nono's epic treatment of the Prometheus myth took over a fomer turbine hall in the heart of the Ruhr.

Listening is the only requirement for travelling through the spatial soundscapes of Luigi Nono’s rarely performed masterpiece Prometeo. Looking almost got in the way at the Holland Festival.

Barbara Hannigan stars both as singer and conductor with ensemble Ludwig at the Concertgebouw. This is a difficult double act and one that doesn't entirely succeed.

Karlheinz Stockhausen has done rather well out of this weekend’s instalment of Southbank Centre’s The Rest is Noise festival, with his music featuring in all three of the concerts as well as the mouthwatering additional event “Breakfast with Stockhausen”.

The 1960s and 70s are famous for breakthrough developments in rock music, but the story was really no different for the field of art music during those decades. The advent of electronics seems to have instilled in composers a fresh thirst for sound-exploration and conceptual writing.

You can’t accuse Vladimir Jurowski of lacking ambition. This LPO concert of his, featuring artfully sequenced works by Beethoven, Schoenberg and Nono, was dedicated “to all the people in the world who are still suffering injustice”.

Aisha Orazbayeva rests her violin under her chin as the welcoming applause subsides. She raises her bow and nonchalantly touches the screw at its tip against one of the strings, making an extremely quiet 'ting'. I, probably along with a good percentage of the Kings Place audience, am unsure as to whether or not the concert has started.It has done.

Musik sagt mehr als tausend Worte, aber kann sie Menschen auch zu Einsichten verhelfen? Christoph Marthalers Inszenierung ist an Urängste appellierender Hässlichkeit kaum zu überbieten.

Vendredi dernier, l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France nous donnait à entendre un audacieux portrait des temps contemporains, entre souffrance, galanterie et chant de vie.   

Wiener Festwochenzeit ist Experimentierzeit: das Experiment des doppelten Konzertabends gelingt.

Darmstadts neuer Intendant lässt das Publikum den Prozess der neuen Ausrichtung des Theaters hautnah miterleben und bietet eine ganz neue Perspektive auf eine Vorstellung.

Es gibt immer wieder außergewöhnliche Plätze, an denen klassische Konzerte veranstaltet werden. Mit vier Veranstaltungen im Kesselhaus der Kulturbrauerei präsentiert sich „Klassik im Kessel“, eine neue Reihe des Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchesters Berlin für Kammermusik.