I'll think of something later

A colleague once said he used his blog as a kind of shop window for his work. Although it's absolutely not my aim here - there are n...

Ernest Ansermet's recording with his Orchestre de la Suisse Romande of Chabrier's Joyeuse Marche is a desert island track of mi...

Shouldn't pre-empt too much the Pärnu Music Festival piece I owe The Arts Desk for the fourth successive year, this time ahead of t...

Let's just celebrate it to the full while we can - probably for the last time on the scale of the usual Europe Day Concerts held in ...

Having got the long-festering cri de coeur of the previous entry off my chest (forgive the mixed topography), let's turn the water ...

Well, two of the many twentysomethings who made this 9 May in St John's Smith Square the best yet, at any rate (pictured above at t...

And by two exceptional, mature artists still in their twenties, my (now) good friend the New Zealand violinist Benjamin Baker and Hungar...

Update (10/5) - the Europe Day concert preview had to be temporarily removed yesterday, but here it is again, with a footnote to the effect...

Classy cellist Lydia Shelley's mum Mary Hill, a very fine pianist and good friend via J's time with her when she ran the Abbey O...

Following his final performance as the best Music Director of English National Opera in my memory, Mark Wigglesworth paid another visit to ...