The Subterranean Review

The German neo-expressionist composer Wolfgang Rihm has written a new piano concerto, which was premiered at the Salzburg Festival this summ...

On 12 September the Dutch Radio Philharmonic Orchestra gave a concert performance of Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde' in the Amster...

Another revealing discussion on Slipped Disc... this time about contemporary opera, and the American way of criticizing it: http://slipped...

In Tehran, Beethoven IX was performed with the mullahs in the front row, blissfully ignorant of the message of this piece, which was sung in...

The Canadian pianist Glenn Gould, famous for his intense interpretations and notorious for his willful distortions of the score. was not int...

I have always been struck by the obvious lack of musical capacities of both composers and performers of atonal, modernist music. If we descr...

On the informative website 'Slipped Disc', where much interesting information can be found on a daily basis, thanks to the tireless ...