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The name has horrific connotations for all of us. Yesterday Russian forces hit not only Kyiv's TV tower but also the memorial which hadn...

It seems appropriate to kick off the summer term of my Opera in Depth Zoom course with Britten's Albert Herring* , that Maupassant-adap...

None could be more authentic than Victor Serge's The Case of Comrade Tulayev ; he lived through the earlier waves of eliminations and w...

The teenage Shostakovich entered the third term of my Russian music Zoom course three Thursdays ago with the audacious gambit of his First ...

Zoom has been my salvation in 2020, and not just in terms of keeping financially afloat. To realise how much it's meant not just to an e...

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...

The Dante Quartet (violinists Krysia Osostowicz and Oscar Perks, viola-player Yuko Inoue and cellist Richard Jenkinson) plus Jim Page (l...

For me, the players and their inspiring conductor Paavo Järvi always were (on a high), at each of the three festivals in the lovely sout...