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Everyone else is busy writing about Elgar now. His birthday isn't until next weekend, but here's conductor Sakari Oramo in The Guard...

Here's my piece about Sir Henry Wood from today's Indy. Sir Henry was the public face of the Proms for their first five decades. Th...

I spent part of Tuesday afternoon standing under the Waterloo railway bridge watching Tasmin Little playing Vivaldi and shouting "Give...

... my piece about him was in today's Independent . The Indy also ran a very good read the other day - stars pick their musical nightmar...

Woke up to find my name and Elgar's splashed all over the business section of today's Indy. Stephen King argues that poor old Edu sh...

This is what I've been doing this week.

I've got a double page spread in The Independent today , a quick look back at 60 years of the Royal Opera. Odd to think that the organis...

My piece about Anna Netrebko has a centrefold in The Independent's arts bit today. Will post a link to the online version as soon as it&...

Here's the thing I wrote for the Independent about McCartney and Sting's latest classical efforts. It's been slightly cut, whic...

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...

Tomcat was rung up by The Guardian the other day and this is the result . He's talking here to Stephen Moss about the recent kerfuffle o...

Last week I was asked to write a big feature about orchestral life for The Independent. Unfortunately it seems that logistics at the paper h...

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...

There's been a good reason for my blogland silence this week. I've been in Rome. Almost didn't come back. When Dorothy taps her ...

This is in today's edition of Scotland On Sunday: my article about the Opera de Tours's production of the musical comedy L'amou...

...playing at the Proms for the first time. Philippe Graffin is doing this on Tuesday. Full details here . How anyone tackles such a task i...

The result of my Wednesday Wagner crisis is in The Independent today. Read it online here . The commission began rumbling on Tuesday, was co...

Ilka Talvi has some marvellous reminiscences about his studies with violin professors who seem to have had a penchant for breaking their pu...

A succession of somewhat cataclysmic musical experiences over the weekend has left me reeling for a few days, in the face of the mystery of ...

I had a lot of fun writing this article about Hans Christian Andersen's musical associations , which appears in today's Independent....