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Oh dear. I hate writing things like this. I know Korngold is difficult to play, difficult even to decipher, and can be overwritten etc etc, ...

Rightyho, prospectus duly plundered. What follows is just a taste of the interesting (or just really attractive) dates that didn't make ...

I had a lot of s*)% to deal with yesterday and everything happened at the time I should have been heading for the Proms launch. By the time ...

Opera Chic has some distressing news: Vladimir Ashkenazy has apparently decided to stop giving concerts as a pianist because he has a dege...

Oh, sod it, I've got a new mousemat & keyboard ridge thing, both with a gel support for sore wrists, and if I don't write this u...

So today I had a call asking me to go on BBC Radio 4 to talk about Hattogate. Dropped everything and ran to Broadcasting House...only to dis...

Marc-Andre Hamelin will be at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on Sunday afternoon, 18 February , 3.30pm, to play Beethoven's two last sonatas a...

Puzzled as to why the Philharmonia hasn't been shouting about this from the rooftops... here's the link .... Fab reason for concer...

Here's one of our regular Korngold updates for this year, the 50th anniversary of the composer's death. My prolific thanks to Korngo...

In today's Independent, Jude Kelly, the South Bank (or Southbank?) Centre's artistic director, gives the run-down on the gear-up , w...

It's true! Korngold's biggest, greatest opera is finally to receive its UK premiere, nearly 80 years after it was written. The Londo...

First, here's the feature I wrote about classical music on Youtube for The Independent - out today. Elated yet again after the trio con...

Rustem Hayroudinoff is one of those musicians who knock the spots off overhyped oriental kiddies and wolf-keeping Europeans in terms of gen...

The Guardian's website has an audio report about Piers Lane's day of tributes to Dame Myra Hess and her wartime concert series at t...

Last night I attended an extraordinary concert staged by Opera Rara and Prima Donna Productions at the Wigmore Hall: a programme with narrat...

The Pianist Magazine/Yamaha Amateur Piano Competition held on Saturday night for the first time has awarded its first prize to a 79-year-old...

Some good gigs in London this week. The Wigmore Hall is enjoying a plethora of Faure. Tomorrow (Wendes) and Thursday, the fabulous Leopold S...

This article of mine is in the Independent today . I don't usually write about theatre (much as I'd love to), but this involves Arth...

After - how many?! oh no!! - decades of living in London and attending its various flawed concert halls, I had a huge surprise the other day...

... will be quite an event It features our very own Tomcat and his orchestra, under their principal conductor, the indomitable Kurt Masur! ...