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The Australian Festival of Chamber Music gets into gear... Photo: Andrew Rankin The pandemic is reaching the point at which we almost don’t ...

When Immortal was published last October, I made a playlist to go with it on Apple Music. This was originally intended for the subscribers t...

It's 21 December! Welcome back to our cyberposhplace, with a difference. Nowadays we are all living permanently in cyberplaces. Paradoxi...

It's been a hectic few weeks and a bout of tonsillitis didn't help. So from the tranquility of a plane-less Monday morning, in compa...

" O friends, not those tones!"  That particular dog has had its day: soon a new day will dawn. Congratulations to our friends over...

I was saddened to hear the other day that the celebrated musicologist Maynard Solomon has died, aged 90. I have admired his writings for man...

Moving music online may have reduced audiences in one way, but it's expanded them in others. Next weekend, on 3 and 4 October, you can l...

While we in the UK continue to run about like headless chickens (which in many ways we actually are), the Salzburg Festival has managed to b...

My last face-to-face interview before lockdown was with Maxim Vengerov. Looking back on the transcript now, it's so strange to see the l...

If you are already a subscriber to IMMORTAL, you'll have received this in your in-box. Still, it seems to have gone over quite well, so ...

I've spent some time considering the associations of Beethoven's D minor Piano Sonata Op. 31 No. 2 with "Der Sturm" - as r...

It's never too early to start an anniversary celebration the size of Beethoven's 250th, and today at the Beethovenhaus in Bonn (w...

I've been reading an interesting book, which I'm reviewing for BBC Music Magazine. It's Good Music: What It Is and Who Gets to D...