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They certainly didn't tell me I'd be doing this for 15 years when I signed up to Blogger on 2 March 2004. Here's a little glim...

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

My newest post at the Unbound Shed for Ghost Variations is about another violinist deeply involved in the story of the Schumann Violin C...

This year marks the centenary of one of the 20th century's most extraordinary musicians: Yehudi Menuhin. A plethora of events and record...

In the past week we have heard of the deaths of SIX musical legends. The beloved composer Jonathan Harvey (73). The marvellous jazzer Dave ...

It's Schumann's birthday, so for a Friday Historical I'd like to play one of the most exquisite and heartbreaking recordings I k...

You know that feeling when the captain says "Cabin crew, ten minutes to landing," and they dim the lights...but 25 minutes later y...