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It's always interesting to read bad reviews, even if one cringes while so doing. But those that have attended the new Pélléas et Mélisan...

A century and still running? Several things have happened in the last few weeks that seem to add up to more than the sum of their random par...

It's impossible to offer adequate musical responses for the atrocities we're seeing around the world - from Syria to Dallas to, toda...

This is an edited version of the talk I gave at the Wigmore Hall last Saturday, introducing a programme that consisted of the Debussy Violin...

Google has a Clair de lune doodle to celebrate Claude Debussy's birthday today. Somehow I have the feeling that our beloved Claude'...

I was once doing a talk and someone asked me whether there was any music I used to love that I had "gone off". The answer was twof...

Spent Wednesday morning at the preview of the new exhibition From Paris: A Taste for Impressionism at the Royal Academy of Arts, talking to...

 I'd never ventured to the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment's Night Shift series before, having assumed that I'd be a b...

Come back, Ken Russell, and please, please have another shot at Debussy? My latest post for The Spectator Arts Blog casts an eye over the la...

Here we go...it's the Debussy anniversary! A grand 150 years since the birth of (almost) everyone's favourite French composer, a fig...