As the London venue faces criticism, its artistic program claims a separation from its commercial wing. How independent are those operations, and how robust is Kings Place’s new ethics policy?

VAN Magazine

29.05.2025

The Götterdämmerung of It All! A "Ring" for our times • VAN Magazine

Kate Wagner's radical reinterpretation of Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle from the political left.

VAN Magazine

23.05.2025

The method acting of pianist Alfredo Gómez • VAN Magazine

The Basque pianist speaks to Kyle Rosen about Messiaen, Feldman, and his preoccupation with silence.

VAN Magazine

23.05.2025

Kazuki Yamada on Birmingham, Berlin, and bins • VAN Magazine

An interview with Kazuki Yamada, the incoming conductor of the DSO Berlin

VAN Magazine

23.05.2025

Is Unsuk Chin's opera completely finished? • VAN Magazine

The world premiere of Unsuk Chin’s new opera “Die dunkle Seite des Mondes” in review

VAN Magazine

16.05.2025

The "Four Seasons" and its links to Mussolini • VAN Magazine

Plus: How did a conductor with links to Mussolini end up as de facto music director of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra?

VAN Magazine

16.05.2025

Serious Fun • VAN Magazine

Pianist Lukáš Vondráček on the "Czech classical music mafia," living in Las Vegas, and his never-ending search for a voice.

VAN Magazine

16.05.2025

The gradual unfoldings of Catherine Lamb • VAN Magazine

The composer Catherine Lamb on India, Feldman, activism, Gaza, and her new album "interius/exterius."

VAN Magazine

16.05.2025

Can Digital Playback Replace Live Accompanists? • VAN Magazine

In churches and conservatories, accompanying keyboardists are becoming scarce. Are digital playback tools the solution?

VAN Magazine

09.05.2025

At the reopening of the Frick Museum’s concert hall • VAN Magazine

Leah Mandel listens to Thomas Dunford and Anthony Roth Costanzo in the newly renovated Frick music hall.

VAN Magazine

09.05.2025

Long Play Festival, in review • VAN Magazine

Kenneth Dillon hears works by Christopher Cerrone, Anthony Braxton, Tujiko Noriko, Max Richter, John Cage, and Henry Threadgill.

VAN Magazine

09.05.2025

JACK Quartet's Austin Wulliman finds energy in the moment • VAN Magazine

The violinist and JACK Quartet member discusses his new album, "Escape Rites."

VAN Magazine

09.05.2025

Is New York's music scene as powerful in real life as it appears on screen?

Jared Coffin learned to love New York through YouTube, streamed concerts and recordings. How would his first trip to the big city change his perceptions?

VAN Magazine

09.05.2025

Is Europe experiencing "Ring" fatigue? • VAN Magazine

A.J. Goldmann reflects on the many new and continuing stagings of Wagner's "Ring" cycle on the stages of Europe.

VAN Magazine

02.05.2025

A Cellist Looks Inside Herself • VAN Magazine

“Scratching,” cellist Katinka Kleijn’s one-woman performance piece, reviewed in the bar

VAN Magazine

02.05.2025

The memorials of Olivier Messiaen • VAN Magazine

Poet Michael Symmons Roberts examines Messiaen in “Quartet for the End of Time: On Music, Grief & Birdsong."

VAN Magazine

02.05.2025

Komische Oper's "Don Giovanni," reviewed in the bar • VAN Magazine

Don Giovanni is bi? Don Elvira is actually a male soprano? There's a whole chunk of the Mozart Requiem? Jeffrey Arlo Brown and Hugh Morris converse on Kirill Serebrennikov's new production.

VAN Magazine

25.04.2025

Salzburg Easter Festival's musical interregnum • VAN Magazine

A.J. Goldmann reflects on the past three years of Salzburg Easter Festivals, which have featured a rotating cast of orchestras. and creative teams.

VAN Magazine

25.04.2025

In Memoriam, Peter Ablinger • VAN Magazine

An obituary for Peter Ablinger, the composer who died last week at the age of 66.

VAN Magazine

25.04.2025

András Schiff on why he is boycotting the United States • VAN Magazine

The pianist. on Jewish identity, performing in Israel, and self-criticism.

VAN Magazine

25.04.2025

"Daphnis and Chloe" at the Southbank Centre, reviewed • VAN Magazine

“Daphnis and Chloe” at the Southbank Centre’s Multitudes Festival, reviewed in the bar by Hugh MOrris and Edward Henderson.

VAN Magazine

18.04.2025

Listening for the body of Julius Eastman • VAN Magazine

Isaac Jean-Francois and Leonard Bopp discuss their new project "Speculative Listening: The Sonic World of Julius Eastman."

VAN Magazine

18.04.2025

Chaya Czernowin's music says, "Don't Touch" • VAN Magazine

Ty Bouque travels through parables towards Czernowin's distant music.

VAN Magazine

18.04.2025

Aurel Dawidiuk Is Taking His Time • VAN Magazine

An interview with Aurel Dawidiuk about Mahler, soccer, and the long road ahead to conducting stardom.

VAN Magazine

18.04.2025

Keith Jarrett's "Köln Concert" at 50 • VAN Magazine

The audacious delirious dance receives its flowers in its golden year.

VAN Magazine

11.04.2025

Bach in an Age of Trump • VAN Magazine

"Sheep May Safely Graze" seen in 13 ways in Trump's America.

VAN Magazine

11.04.2025

Why "Beethoven's Wig" was ahead of its time • VAN Magazine

A salute to “Beethoven’s Wig,” the sing-along albums that soundtracked a generation of listeners’ first classical encounters.

VAN Magazine

11.04.2025

These Top Republican Donors Also Donate To Classical Music • VAN Magazine

Which donors to classical music also donate to the Make America Great Again movement?

VAN Magazine

11.04.2025

American History, Viewed from the Bell Tower • VAN Magazine

Mary Clark has seen American political history from a unique vantage point: high up in the National Cathedral bellcroft.

VAN Magazine

04.04.2025

Author Brendan Slocumb's classical music mystery fiction • VAN Magazine

Brendan Slocumb on combatting racism through classical music fiction, and his new. book, The Dark Maestro.

VAN Magazine

04.04.2025

Who is Haus of Shmizzay, Instagram's opera provocateur? • VAN Magazine

Perri di Christina searches for the person behind the voice-teacher-cum-shock-jock Haus of Shmizzay.

VAN Magazine

04.04.2025

The Traveling Breath • VAN Magazine

A woman with narrow shoulders and long grey hair steps up to the microphone. In the bluish stage light, she looks pensive and fragile. Which makes the power of her voice all the more surprising as she releases an astonishing variety of sounds into the hall: humming, whirring, sighing; clacking glottal stops, throaty chirps, nasal […]

VAN Magazine

04.04.2025

Radio 3's "20th Century Radicals" wrangles with recent history • VAN Magazine

Kate Molleson on the new 40-part Radio 3 series that tells the stories of the last century's most radical musical voices.

VAN Magazine

28.03.2025

The World's Best Musical Fakes • VAN Magazine

Frederick Reece, author of the forthcoming book "Forgery in Musical Composition," speaks to Phil Hebblethwaite about historic cases of copying, plagiarism and fakery.

VAN Magazine

28.03.2025

BarTálk: Beat Furrer's “Das grosse Feuer” • VAN Magazine

In a new review format for VAN, Jeffrey Arlo Brown and Ty Bouque review Beat Furrer's new opera in the bar post-production.

VAN Magazine

28.03.2025

Pau Casals' letters show an age of anxiety • VAN Magazine

Kyle Rosen dives into the extraordinary letters of Pau Casals, the proud, passionate, political Catalan cellist.

VAN Magazine

28.03.2025

Elaine Mitchener on why Julius Eastman deserves visibility • VAN Magazine

Ahead of a new project premiering at the Barbican Centre in early April, the vocalist and movement artist speaks to Marat Ingeldeev about Julius Eastman.

VAN Magazine

21.03.2025

Pierre Boulez answered questions only he heard • VAN Magazine

As part of the Boulez centennial, George Grella presents a critique of a composer whose personal expression remained exactly that—personal.

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Michael Barenboim on his pro-Palestine activism • VAN Magazine

Kings Place faces backlash over Lockheed Martin links • VAN Magazine

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The method acting of pianist Alfredo Gómez • VAN Magazine

Kazuki Yamada on Birmingham, Berlin, and bins • VAN Magazine

Is Unsuk Chin's opera completely finished? • VAN Magazine

The "Four Seasons" and its links to Mussolini • VAN Magazine

Serious Fun • VAN Magazine

The gradual unfoldings of Catherine Lamb • VAN Magazine

Can Digital Playback Replace Live Accompanists? • VAN Magazine

At the reopening of the Frick Museum’s concert hall • VAN Magazine

Long Play Festival, in review • VAN Magazine

JACK Quartet's Austin Wulliman finds energy in the moment • VAN Magazine

Is New York's music scene as powerful in real life as it appears on screen?

Is Europe experiencing "Ring" fatigue? • VAN Magazine

A Cellist Looks Inside Herself • VAN Magazine

The memorials of Olivier Messiaen • VAN Magazine

Komische Oper's "Don Giovanni," reviewed in the bar • VAN Magazine

Salzburg Easter Festival's musical interregnum • VAN Magazine

In Memoriam, Peter Ablinger • VAN Magazine

András Schiff on why he is boycotting the United States • VAN Magazine

"Daphnis and Chloe" at the Southbank Centre, reviewed • VAN Magazine

Listening for the body of Julius Eastman • VAN Magazine

Chaya Czernowin's music says, "Don't Touch" • VAN Magazine

Aurel Dawidiuk Is Taking His Time • VAN Magazine

Keith Jarrett's "Köln Concert" at 50 • VAN Magazine

Bach in an Age of Trump • VAN Magazine

Why "Beethoven's Wig" was ahead of its time • VAN Magazine

These Top Republican Donors Also Donate To Classical Music • VAN Magazine

American History, Viewed from the Bell Tower • VAN Magazine

Author Brendan Slocumb's classical music mystery fiction • VAN Magazine

Who is Haus of Shmizzay, Instagram's opera provocateur? • VAN Magazine

The Traveling Breath • VAN Magazine

Radio 3's "20th Century Radicals" wrangles with recent history • VAN Magazine

The World's Best Musical Fakes • VAN Magazine

BarTálk: Beat Furrer's “Das grosse Feuer” • VAN Magazine

Pau Casals' letters show an age of anxiety • VAN Magazine

Elaine Mitchener on why Julius Eastman deserves visibility • VAN Magazine

Pierre Boulez answered questions only he heard • VAN Magazine

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