When markets turn black...

...then music fans turn puce. Have tickets touts made black market colluders of us all? http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3455

Gazza, Brach and the late Geoffrey...

Do our publicists need a bit of a holiday? Looks that way... http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3453

Gove calls for music education review

Good words from education secretary Michael Gove re music education in the UK - but how's he going to pay for it? http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3432

The Perryman Videos

Here are the two parts of my split-screen video chat about music&painting and music&words with kinetic artist Norman Perryman.

Flight past the Green Mountain

Meet Mr Monteverdi. And also meet me and kinetic artist Norman Perryman trying to figure out Skype and split screens, and hear a wonderful radio programme about Faure's Requiem. http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3395

What Vladimir Jurowski tells me...

...which is not the title of a movement in Mahler 3, but could have been. http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3392

Toby Takes the Cake

My write-up of Faust at English National Opera. Please will you welcome: a real romantic tenor who happens to be British? http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3391

If only this was unbelievable...

Going for the jugular re some very unpleasant copyright developments at the ROH http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3388

Marking Spence

My interview from today's Independent with Toby Spence, ace British tenor who's singing Faust from next Tuesday. Also a significant out-take in which Toby voices criticism of the current state of singing graduates from British music colleges. Plus an extract of Fausty music from Gil Shaham. http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3385

Darting on at Dartington

The future's bright after all at the Dartington International Summer School of Music. http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3382

Meet Katya Apekisheva, Jack Liebeck and Tolstoy...

...An interview with Katya, who's playing at the Wigmore on Wednesday, and a fascinating film of The Kreutzer Sonata to watch. http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3380

Russian Dreaming

A glorious afternoon at the Kings Place Festival listening to Mikhail Rudy... http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3375

Hunting Good Will, Not

In support of Intermezzo over her recent correspondence with the Royal Opera House http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3373

Seasonal Stuff, Sort Of

My interview with Renee Fleming re the Last Night of the Proms, and some little-known religious Korngold to listen to - admittedly for the wrong bit of the Jewish calendar but it was all I could find. http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3372

Beethoven Moments

Composers and deafness: Beethoven and Faure via Michael Berkeley and an experiment by Krystian Zimerman... http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3370

Glenn Gould's Girlfriends

A new film is set to reveal all! http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3367

"Wriggle a Toe"

Verdi, Domingo and Mantua stun the small screens in 148 countries. http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3363

"Wouldn't you just die without Mahler?"

Reflections after Mahler 1 by the Berlin Phil & Sir Simon Rattle at the Proms the other night... http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3360

Pianist in Earthquake

Piers Lane is in Christchurch, New Zealand...http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3359

Time-Travel at the Proms

We're going back to 1910, without a tardis in sight. Indeed, the journey more prominently features Sir Henry Wood's bike... http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3357

Meet Steven Isserlis

A link to my latest interview with the great cellist, plus some Youtube of him playing some unbelievably amazing Schumann. http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/3356