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Steven Isserlis is 60 today! I have flipping' well missed his big birthday concert on Monday at the Wigmore Hall - which included appe...

Portrait of Gabriel Fauré by John Singer Sargent I had an extraordinary day a few weeks ago, heading for Paris and the Bibliothèque Nat...

It's Fauré's birthday. A good few years after I wrote his biography for the Phaidon 20th-Century Composers series, I love him more t...

Cor, an anniversary - an excuse to play some of Fauré's finest. And it was YESTERDAY, ahem...we have been a bit preoccupied with stuff t...

Some would say it's Jonas Kaufmann. Others suggest that my lovely Hungarian Dances violinist colleague, David Le Page, bears a certa...

I spent a very pleasant evening yesterday addressing the London branch of the Elgar Society - a remarkable collection of knowledgeable enth...

I just came across the site of Cmusic.org, which here posts 14 rare bits of footage of some early 20th-century composers and conductors of ...

JDCMB has received a mystery Valentine! Well, a mystery to you. When/if I think of a suitable return message, you'll probably guess co...

Listen out for our broadcast today on BBC Radio 3's In Tune! David Le Page, Viv McLean and I will be performing some extracts from our &...

This week BBC Radio 3 is re-airing the series of Composer of the Week programmes on Gabriel Fauré with which I was involved a few years ago ...

I've been burning the candle at both ends, to coin a phrase. It beats the hell out of sitting alone at home watching repeats of Midsomer...

My 'Building a Library' on the Faur é Cello Sonata No.2 is now available to download from Radio 3's website (I suspect this is ...

` On Saturday morning - ie, tomorrow - I'm on BBC Radio 3's CD Review, discussing various recordings of Faur é's miraculou...

Ah, Monsieur Gabriel! It's the anniversary of his death, today - he left the world on 4 November 1924, aged 79. In 1913 he made this Wel...

Warmest thanks to the one and only Norman Geras for inviting me to contribute to the 'Writer's Choice' series on his site, Normb...

One thing I want to do when I have a spare mo is to go and see Sacha Baron Cohen's film The Dictator . As Channel 4's Lindsey Hilsum...