JDCMB Top 10 Posts 2015

From place 10 up to place 1, here are the most-read pieces on JDCMB of 2015

10. Tasmin Little's speech to the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Music Education.

9. Return to the Magic Mountains 1: Manon Lescaut in Munich, and I had a picture taken with Jonas afterwards...

8. Anna Rezniak saves the day for Lars Vogt and Christian Tetzlaff: page-turner video goes viral.

7. Birmingham Music Library is under threat.

6. Sir Simon Rattle tells us that European orchestral conditions look like "the wildest edges of science fiction" from here in the sunny UK. (In which case, if that hall is ever build, he needs to demand that it has proper facilities for its musicians as well as its audience, for starters...)

5. Farewell to Jack McCaw, wonderful clarinettist (and wonderful neighbour).

4. Symphony Hall to be shifted brick by brick to London [please note, this ran on 1 April...]

3. Pianist lands dream job. Namely, Piers Lane is assuming the directorship of the Sydney International Piano Competition.

2. Sarah Connolly's speech on why we need the arts, as presented to a special Arts Council England event in Westminster.

And in first place:

1. Barenboim is involved in designing his own bespoke piano and plays it in London. 

Meanwhile, I'm glad to say that the 2013 post Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman Conductor remains hot property and has notched up more reads than any other post in more than 12 years of JDCMB existence.