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My poor old piano has been a bit neglected lately. Last week my editor (novels) went on holiday for half term and I can't make much pro...

Spent a happy spring day yesterday at the BBC Music Magazine CD Awards bash on a boat on the Thames. What with the bubbly, the excellent foo...

Too Much Mozart , a short story I've written to accompany a new CD of the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante, is now available to read online a...

Rather touched to discover a hit from a reader in the Far East looking for 'Faure Piano Quartet No.1 recipe'. Tricky, that. Perhaps ...

A few personal recommendations of favourite discs released this year - just in time for that last-minute Xmas shopping. Enjoy! 1. ELGAR Viol...

I got a bit hot under the collar over the business of my article in The Australian, so thought I'd calm down by recommending some nice C...

A rash of referrals on my statcounter from a site I hadn't seen before led me to this excellent development : a site for newcomers to cl...

It's so grey and wintery here in London that I thought I'd try and cheer everyone up with ten of the sunniest records I can find. 1....

A few CDs that have come my way recently that you may enjoy too: Marc-Andre Hamelin's new disc of Schumann (Hyperion), featuring Papill...

There's been a good reason for my blogland silence this week. I've been in Rome. Almost didn't come back. When Dorothy taps her ...

OK. I think that's quite enough about Wagner for a bit. My brain's getting twisted. I'm off to Switzerland for a flying visit to...

I'm amused to see that one of the music sites I visit most often, The Classical Source , is running a banner ad for pet food deliveries....

My last post has been removed due to circumstances beyond my control. Sorry. I thought it was nice. Anyway, here are two wonderful new CDs f...

A nice CD hit my desk yesterday: violinist Daniel Hope & pianist Sebastian Knauer playing Mozart with the Camerata Salzburg under Roger ...

Among things that need a serious restart are our front room shelves, groaning with LPs that haven't been played for 20 years. Today Tom ...

Newest addition to sidebar is Avie Records , which now has its website ready to roll. Avie, run by long-time record industry pros Simon Fost...

Apologies for rather quiet week for blogging, or lack of... It's a busy time of year, however, for CD issues and consequently for review...

OK, OK, OK. I said I would be recommending books and CDs from time to time and a delicate correspondent has now told me that I don't do ...

ACD in Sounds and fury has an inspiring post at the moment about Wanda Landowska's playing of Bach. Nice to come across this while I...

Got a nice message yesterday from a friend in New York saying he'd post a comment here, but only if I wrote something about Long-Dead Mu...