After the Fall takes Gothenburg - John Adams and Víkingur Ólafsson join Göteborgs Symfoniker A Swedish premiere to die for, the new Adams concerto was heard in good company of The Chairman Dances, Stravinsky Symphonies of Winds & Debussy Ibéria. #adventuresinmusic

From Paris to Salzburg with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra Baroque Ensemble Fab Four at Café Barock - an afternoon well spent in great company. Splendid playlist featuring noble tombeaux and absolute bangers alike. ☕️🎶 #adventuresinmusic

Off to Gothenburg for my 3rd live encounter with John Adams’s ’After the Fall’ (2024) featuring its dedicatee Víkingur Ólafsson as soloist, joined by the Gothenburg Symphony under the composer! #adventuresinmusic

Magnus Lindberg’s Serenades (2020) soar with the Helsinki Philharmonic under Jukka-Pekka Saraste. One of the composer’s finest orchestral scores, heard alongside Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta & Rachmaninoff PC 1. #adventuresinmusic jarijuhanikallio.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/l...

Ahead of the 🇫🇮 premieres of her Breathing Forests (2021/2023) and Tumblebird Contrails (2014), an interview with Gabriella Smith. #adventuresinmusic

Reporting from Lucerne Festival’s Boulez centennial celebrations, highlighting with Poèsie pour pouvoir (1958) IRCAM reconstruction premiered by LFCO under David Robertson & Molly Turner AND Marco Stroppa’s Come Play with Me (2016-2025)for solo-electronics and orchestra. #adventuresinmusic

Arvo Pärt is ninety years old!! #adventuresinmusic

Reporting from Helsinki Philharmonic season opening, conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste & Pekka Kuusisto, welcoming Composer-in-Residence Anna Thorvaldsdottir (AERIALITY) and re-introducing Samy Moussa (Stasis) & Anna Clyne (Prince of Clouds), plus ein bißchen Brahms (Symphony 2). #adventuresinmusic

Reporting from Lucerne Festival, Dieter Ammann’s new Viola Concerto „No templates“ in a milestone performance with Tabea Zimmermann, LFCO & David Robertson, coupled with intriguing world premieres from Guillem Palomar & Jakob Raab conducted by Michelle Di Russo & Sebastian Zinca. #adventuresinmusic

A throwback to Helsinki Festival, an intimate evening with Bryce Dessner, Australian String Quartet, Anastasia Kobekina and Fleur Barron, featuring the composer’s chamber classics and a world premiere, along with a tribute to Arvo Pärt at 90. #adventuresinmusic

Reporting from Lucerne Festival, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts his future orchestra in the world premiere of his exquisite Horn Concerto for Stefan Dohr. A first performance for the books, setting the stage for Orchestre de Paris’s era with Salonen. #adventuresinmusic

Bryce Dessner’s compelling Impermanence staged with virtuosity and fortitude at Helsinki Festival A staggering production by Sydney Dance Company and Australian String Quartet, Dessner’s hour-long Imparmanence (2021) marked one of the high-points of the 2025 festival. #adventuresinmusic

A throwback to Kirill Gerstein’s exquisite recital at Mänttä Music Festival earlier this month, featuring a brilliant set-list of Robert Schumann, Thomas Adès, György Kurtág, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky/Grainger, Francisco Coll and Maurice Ravel. #adventuresinmusic

Relentless sonic joy - Bang on a Can All-Stars at Helsinki Festival Classic All-Stars repertoire from Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Steve Martland paired with inspired dance film commissions. #adventuresinmusic

Variations on America - the FRSO and Susanna Mälkki at the Helsinki Festival Top program feat. Ives Symphony No. 2, John Adams The Wound-Dresser (sung in Finnish), Thomas Adès America - A Prophecy (1999 version) and Andrew Norman Unstuck. #adventuresinmusic

Explaining words with music - interview with David Lang Ahead of the European premiere of ’before and after nature’ (2024) for chamber choir and Bang on a Can All-Stars, with video projections by Tal Rosner, the composer and I discuss the words and music in our talk. #adventuresinmusic

Ives Symphony No. 2 (1897-1902/1910) with the Finnish Radio SO and Susanna Mälkki tonight at the Helsinki Festival!! 🎺🎺🎺🥁

Inspiration, death and inner voices - clownery and string quartet meet at Our Festival Partly staged concert, partly theatre play, taking its cue from @jeansibelius.bsky.social’s Voces intimae and building up to a compelling - and fun - onstage presentation. #adventuresinmusic

Outdoors with the hometown band. 💚

Into the natural world with Ortiz, Reid and Márquez at @tanglewoodma.bsky.social Festival of Contemporary Music Four absorbing chamber scores by the 2025 Music Director, coupled with Ellen Reid’s West Coast Sky Forever and Arturo Márquez’s concise song cycle. #adventuresinmusic

Reporting from a Sunday afternoon concert at @tanglewoodma.bsky.social featuring Boston Symphony and Andris Nelsons performing Gabriela Ortiz La Calaca (2017/2021), Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2 (1868), with Lang Lang, and Beethoven Pastoral Symphony (1803-08). #adventuresinmusic

Reporting from @tanglewoodma.bsky.social Festival of Contemporary Music, where Gabriela Ortiz’s Exilios (2013), Liquid Borders (2014) and Altar de Muertos (1997) were heard alongside Gabriella Smith’s Carrot Revolution (2015) and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon’s Suite from Comala (2025). #adventuresinmusic

Outstanding survey of percussion scores at @tanglewoodma.bsky.social Festival of Contemporary Music Terrific performances of Gabriela Ortiz, Mario Lavista, Carlos Chávez, Amadeo Roldán and Edgard Varèse from Tambuco and TMC Fellows. #adventuresinmusic

Four generations of Mexican music at @tanglewoodma.bsky.social Festival of Contemporary Music A wonderful festival augur featuring a splendid set-list of Gabriela Ortiz, Carlos Chávez, Mario Lavista and Diana Syrse in top-notch outings by the TMC Fellows and guests. #adventuresinmusic

Scintillating Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with María Dueñas, the BSO and Andris Nelsons at @tanglewoodma.bsky.social Coupled with Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Mahler 10 Adagio and Bach Air, Dueñas’s BSO debut was a treat. #adventuresinmusic

One month to go for the world premiere of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Horn Concerto (2023-25) for Stefan Dohr with Orchestre de Paris at Lucerne Festival!! 📯 #adventuresinmusic

John Williams’s pristine Piano Concerto premiered at @tanglewoodma.bsky.social Delivered with full-on commitment and craft by its dedicatee Emanuel Ax and the Boston Symphony under Andris Nelsons, the new concerto is an inspired affar. #adventuresinmusic

John Williams Piano Concerto world premiere with Emanuel Ax, the BSO and Andris Nelsons at @tanglewoodma.bsky.social tonight!! Full coverage for #adventuresinmusic coming up!

Festival of Contemporary Music, Gabriela Ortiz M.D., opens tonight at @tanglewoodma.bsky.social!! Ahead of all the festival coverage, here’s Gabriela and I talking not that long ago. #adventuresinmusic

Re-reading the fabulous Steve Reich Conversations book.

”…and I was put in mind of our Apollo astronauts simply achieving a great human dream.” youtube.com/shorts/wE7yH...

A fond memory from 2018, Harrison Birtwistle in rehearsal with the LSO and Simon Rattle for the world premiere of Donum Simoni MMXVIII for woodwind, brass and percussion.

Album review: Fretwork salutes Orlando Gibbons and @nicomuhly.bsky.social A formidable celebration of Gibbons’s consort artistry, zenithing with six 6-part Fantasias and feat. the eagerly-awaited 1st recording of Muhly’s pristine My Days (2012) for male vocal 4tet & 5 viols. #adventuresinmusic

Music for today. #adventuresinmusic

Every once in a while, it’s nice to get to do something for a print edition - such as this little Rondo Classic interview with Bryce Dessner ahead of his appearances at the Helsinki Festival in August. Extended English version available here: jarijuhanikallio.wordpress.com/2025/02/14/l...

Summer Sounds concludes with a tour-de-force outing of Fagerlund’s Clarinet Concerto Completely owned by Christoffer Sundqvist, Avanti! & @johnstorgards.bsky.social, the concerto appeared in good company of Tarrodi’s Birds of Paradise, Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin & Lutosławski’s Jeux vénitiens.

Sonic Heartbeats, concertante tableaux and symphonic vistas with Avanti! and @johnstorgards.bsky.social A brilliantly organic program of Kaija Saariaho, LvB (w. Liza Ferschtman), Outi Tarkiainen and Sebastian Fagerlund opening the 40th Summer Sounds festival. #adventuresinmusic

Intriguing new production of Kaija Saariaho’s Émilie highlights Avanti’s Summer Sounds Directed by Aleksi Barrière and conducted by Aliisa Neige Barrière, the production brings together some of the composer’s finest interpreters. #adventuresinmusic

The UK premiere of Helen Grime’s astounding Violin Concerto (2015-16), given at full throttle by Leila Josefowicz, BBC SO & Sakari Oramo at Aldeburgh Festival, in good company of Daniel Kidane’s stirring Awake (2019) and beauteous of Four Last Songs (1948) with Anu Komsi #adventuresinmusic

King Arthur triumphs with Gabrieli Consort & Players at Aldeburgh Festival Conducted by Paul McCreesh and joined by a spelendid cast, Purcell’s dramatick opera soared at Snape Maltings in the ensemble’s brilliant concert performing edition. #adventuresinmusic

Turnage’s rattling Refugee and Kidane’s vigorous Sirens at Aldeburgh Festival Formidable evening with Allan Clayton, the Royal Academy of Music SO and Edward Gardner at Snape Maltings, featuring music we all need to hear right here, right now. #adventuresinmusic

Forty Heartbeats for Avanti! Summer Sounds - a discussion with Artistic Director Sebastian Fagerlund Ahead of the 40th edition of the legendary festival, starting on Wednesday in Porvoo, Fagerlund and I discuss things musical to come over the five festival days. #adventuresinmusic

Here we go again! Sebastian Fagerlund’s Clarinet Concerto (2006) in rehearsal with Avanti! Chamber Orchestra under John Storgårds ahead of the 40th Summer Sounds festival. #adventuresinmusic

Sequenzas, tributes and memorials with Ensemble Renard at Aldeburgh Festival Splendid centennial tributes to Berio and Boulez, feat. @cherylfranceshoad.bsky.social world premiere, Esa-Pekka Salonen 📯 étude & quintet rarity, plus solos by Britten, Maxwell Davies & Colin Matthews #adventuresinmusic

The UK premiere the Helen Grime Violin Concerto (2015-16) tonight with Leila Josefowicz, BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sakari Oramo at Aldeburgh Festival! 🎻 #adventuresinmusic

A night at the Dramatick Opera ahead!! King Arthur (1691) by Henry Purcell & John Dryden with Gabrieli Consort and Players & Paul McCreesh coming up tonight at Aldeburgh Festival!! #adventuresinmusic

Getting my Aldeburgh Festival Midsummer started. Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Refugee (2018) yesterday, Purcell’s King Arthur (1691) tonight & Helen Grime’s Violin Concerto (2015-16) tomorrow, plus some Kidane, Berio, Boulez, Saariaho, Salonen, Britten, Matthews and whatnot. World premieres too.

If George Lucas had a pub.

Whenever at Trafalgar Square, I’m always reminded of two things: Monty Python’s splendid - and historically ever so accurate - re-enactment of the famous death of admiral Horatio Nelson as well as Rowan Atkinson’s Freudian interpretation of Nelson’s Column.

4:21 am Berio & ☕️ Sequenzas and more with Ensemble Renard at Aldeburgh Festival on Fri & Sat! #adventuresinmusic