Looking back at the Hallé John Adams festival and its feat of chamber music at RNCM feat. Chamber Symhony (1992) under by Euan Shields, Hallelujah Junction (1998) w. Eliza McCarthy & James McVinnie, plus selections from John’s Book of Alleged Dances (1994) by the Emerz Collective. #adventuresinmusic

Reporting from the Hallé John Adams festival finale, conducted by the composer and featuring Leila Josefowicz as soloist in Scheherazade.2 (2014), followed by The Chairman Dances (1985) and concluding with the UK premiere of The Rock You Stand On (2024). #adventuresinmusic

Reporting from Machester, the Hallé John Adams festival lauch with the composer conducting Slonimsky’s Earbox (1995), Livre de Baudelaire (1887-89/1994), Pat’s Aria from Nixon in China (1985-87) and Harmonium (1980-81) with soprano Mary Bevan and Hallé Choir. #adventuresinmusic

Looking back at Thomas Adès and London Symphony Orchestra performing Adès Aquifer (2023-24), Sibelius Symphony No. 3 (1904-07), Ruders Paganini Variations (1999-2000) (feat. Sean Shibe) and Alex Paxton World Builder, Creature (2024) #adventuresinmusic

Tonight!! Harmonium with John Adams conducting the Hallé and Hallé Choir - will be epic! #adventuresinmusic

Harmonielehre to die for - Rattle and Berlin Phil on the John Adams classic ”It was Adams’s 40-minute symphony-but-name that blew the roof off at Philharmone. In fact, the crowd went wild already after the first movement.” #adventuresinmusic

Looking back at last week’s formidable concert with Kirill Gerstein and Gewandhausorchester under David Robertson, primed by Stravinsky and Ravel double-bill, combined with two contrasting works from 1960, Pärt’s Nekrolog and Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from ”West Side Story”. #adventuresinmusic

Looking forward to launching my weekend with the most stunning soloist entry (and orchestral build-up) in the repertoire - performed tonight by Kirill Gerstein and the Gewandhausorchester under David Robertson! 💙❤️ #adventuresinmusic

One of the (many) things I love about Leipzig is that your hotel room view is also one of J.S. Bach’s offices. #adventuresinmusic

Having loved and listened to Sir Simon Rattle’s @thecbso.bsky.social recording of John Adams’s astounding symphony-but-name Harmonielehre (1985) for over 30 years, I can’t wait to FINALLY hear him conduct it live with the Berlin Phil on Saturday!! #adventuresinmusic

Reporting from the Finnish premiere of Steingrímur Rohloff’s Horn Concerto (2024) with Stefan Dohr and the Tampere Philharmonic under Matthew Halls. #adventuresinmusic

Album review: a pristine pocket-sized reimagination of Adès’s The Tempest from Tetzlaff and Gerstein ”Rarely does one become so mesmerized, obsessed even by a documented musical performance than listening to this piece of treasure elaborately caught on microphones.” #adventuresinmusic

Happy 89 Steve Reich!!! 🫶🏼 [pictured, one of the best pieces on the planet]

Magnus Lindberg’s Piano Concerto No. 3 gets its 🇫🇮 premiere tonight with Olli Mustonen, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Dima Slobodeniouk. Here’s the composer discussing the piece ahead of the 2022 San Francisco world premiere. #adventuresinmusic

Returning to Lahti, John Adams introduces Frenzy and Tumblebird Contrails Along with the invigorating Adams and Gabriella Smith 🇫🇮 premieres, Debussy’s pristine La Mer and Première Rhapsodie were heard with the Lahti Symphony and co-principal clarinet Nora Niskanen. #adventuresinmusic

Gabriella Smith’s Breathing Forests and Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony soar in Helsinki Stellar Finnish premiere of Smith’s astounding organ concerto with James McVinnie, the Helsinki Philharmonic and Pekka Kuusisto. #adventuresinmusic

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