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UPDATED, 2pm: Miraculous news indeed from Paris: the great organ is UNTOUCHED. It is unusable because of soot and dust, but it is structural...

My words&music show BEING MRS BACH is at Kings Place on Saturday at 5pm, part of the venue's magnificent Bach Weekend. More info he...

Long read ahead. Get a cuppa. The other day I went to Pembrokeshire to do a Ghost Variations concert with Viv and Dave, and came back ...

Bach's Thomaskirche, Leipzig I've been on musical travels in Leipzig this past week. The historic heart of the former GDR is a...

I've been away in Prague to meet the harpsichordist Zuzana Ružičková [from whose name a few accents are probably still missing]. She...

There's been a little flurry of attention towards music exams following an article by the excellent Rosie Millard about the pride and jo...

The fuss over the Mrs Bach and the cello suites film is getting up my nose, and not in a good way. Of course it makes a good story. But do ...

It was one of the hottest tickets in town yesterday: the semi-staged performance at the Proms of the Bach St Matthew Passion with the Berli...

Pick an occasion - any occasion - in the history of music at which you'd have liked to be present... Today I'll choose the Bach St...

A tip-off from James Rhodes just sent me over to a thing called Reddit and there, dear friends, I found this . An introduction to JS Bach fo...

Viktor Ullmann's opera The Emperor of Atlantis , written in 1943 in Terezin, is a centrepiece of English Touring Opera 's new season...

Our new neighbours invited us to dinner the other day and showed us their latest musical toy. It's called Sonos and it is a wireless hi...

Following a link in a lovely article by Angela Hewitt about preparing The Art of Fugue , I just rediscovered "Old Ebenezer Prout"&...

I'm on BBC Radio 3's CD Review this morning at approx 11.05, chatting with Andrew McGregor about six Bach and Bach-ish discs. Not le...

Dame Myra Hess plays Bach's Toccata in G, BWV916. Recorded in 1950, this performance is full of personality and poise, good sense and rh...

It's not Handel's Messiah . It's a playlist from a very naughty music-lover. I've been listening to the thing again - ...