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

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 ...

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...

1. It was a great honour that this year I was asked to be on the jury. I was only able to emerge around Christmas from underneath the bigges...

I'm preoccupied with Felix Mendelssohn at the moment. Right now, am between the first two of three pre-concert talks that I'm giving...

In the latest issue of the Journal of the Royal Musical Association (no.138 issue 1, May 2013), a study by Dr George Biddlecombe has bee...