Challenging Performance: Classical Music Performance Norms and How to Escape Them

By Daniel Leech-Wilkinson

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Challenging Performance offers a new approach to western classical music, encouraging and enabling performers to be more individual and creative. It shows how and why creativity is normally discouraged, why it should not be, and how it can become part of everyday performance. The linked website, challengingperformance.com, features podcasts, a free online book, and many new and highly imaginative performances. The project is aimed at young professional performers, musicians in the making, and open-minded lovers of classical music. We showcase recordings by contemporary performers who use a range of historical, modern and experimental approaches to revitalise the performance of classical repertoire. Visit https://challengingperformance.com for more information.

Episode Date
Challenging Performance, Chapter 24.2 : How we made ‘Dido & Belinda’
Dec 31, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 24.3 : ‘Dido & Belinda’ -- what the performers thought
Dec 31, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 24.4 : ‘Dido & Belinda’ -- what the audiences thought
Dec 31, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 25 : Speaking of contemporary concerns
Dec 31, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 26 : Speaking of others
Dec 31, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 27 : Finally, the right to be different
Dec 31, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 22.4 : Music as social action
Dec 31, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 22.5 : Assessing non-standard performances
Dec 31, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 23.1 : Exchanging the Moonlight and Erlkönig
Dec 31, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 23.2 : How many Ave Marias?
Dec 31, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 23.3 : Further transgressive performances
Dec 31, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 24.1 : Reinterpreting opera
Dec 31, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 22.1 : What makes a performance work?
Dec 23, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 22.2 : Musical dynamics and musical shape
Dec 23, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 22.3 : Expression is dangerous
Dec 23, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 20 : Why and How to make creative performances
Dec 23, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 21 : Historical examples on record
Dec 23, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 18.0 : Allowing creativity
Dec 23, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 18.1 : Recap on creativity
Dec 23, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 18.2 : Comparison with theatre practice
Dec 23, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 19.1 : Ethical relationships
Dec 23, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 19.2 : Ethical coda
Dec 23, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 14 : The damage to musicians' health
Dec 23, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 15 : The legal constraints on performers
Dec 23, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 13 : Musicians' lack of agency
Dec 23, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 12.1 : Policing
Dec 21, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 12.2 : Music as Utopia
Dec 21, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 12.3 : Self-policing
Dec 21, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 11.2 : Philosophical obligations to dead composers
Dec 21, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 11.3 : Ethical obligations to composers
Dec 21, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 11.1 : Piety and the dead composer
Dec 21, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 10 : Normativities
Dec 21, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 9.1 : Criticism
Dec 21, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 9.2 : The language of record reviews
Dec 21, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 9.3 : The value of record reviewing
Dec 21, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 9.4 : Performance criticism in social media
Dec 21, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 9.5 : The risk performers take
Dec 21, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 9.6 : The lack of intellectual debate about classical music
Dec 21, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 8 : Musicology and editions
Dec 17, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 7.1 : The place of teachers in the classical music State
Dec 15, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 7.2 : Childhood lessons
Dec 15, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 7.3 : Exam boards and the space for creativity
Dec 15, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 7.4 : Conservatoire and creativity
Dec 15, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 7.5 : Conservatoire and conformity
Dec 15, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 7.6 : Izabela Wagner on the training of virtuosi
Dec 15, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 7.7 : Micro schools and their discontents
Dec 15, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 7.8 : Competitions
Dec 15, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 7.9 : Alternatives
Dec 15, 2024
Challenging Performance: Classical Music Performance Norms and How to Escape Them
Dec 13, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 1 : Introduction and Examples.
Dec 10, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 2 : The fabulous status quo
Dec 10, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 3 : Performance changes over time
Dec 10, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 4 : Performing identity
Dec 10, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 5 : The (actual) music, the music itself, musical
Dec 10, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 6.1 : Delusions -- Introduction: naturalised beliefs
Dec 10, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 6.2 : Delusions -- You need to know about music to appreciate it
Dec 10, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 6.3 : Delusions -- You must play structure
Dec 10, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 6.4 : Delusions -- Current performances work best
Dec 10, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 6.5 : Delusions -- We learn natural musicianship
Dec 10, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 6.6 : Delusions -- Performances today are very unalike
Dec 10, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 6.7 : Delusions -- Music makes better sense performed ‘historically’
Dec 10, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 6.8 : Delusions -- Texts document sounds
Dec 10, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 6.9 : Delusions -- Everything is in the score
Dec 10, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 6.10 : Delusions -- A work is greater than any performance of it
Dec 10, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 6.11 : Delusions -- Scores have limited interpretative possibilities
Dec 10, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 6.12 : Delusions -- The composer knows best
Dec 10, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 6.13 : Delusions -- Composers’ intentions are known
Dec 10, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 6.14 : Delusions -- The performer should be inaudible
Dec 10, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 6.15 : Delusions -- Composers are alive and listening
Dec 10, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 6.16 : Delusions -- Composers are gods
Dec 10, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 6.17 : Delusions -- 'Works'
Dec 10, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 6.18 : Delusions -- So music is…. What is it?
Dec 10, 2024
Challenging Performance, Chapter 6.19 : Why do we maintain these delusions?
Dec 10, 2024
Challenging Performance podcast: Episode 3
Jun 05, 2020
Challenging Performance podcast: Episode 2
May 17, 2020
Challenging Performance podcast: Episode 1
Apr 13, 2020