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Gioconda de Vito was my second-ever interviewee, twenty years ago. It was a piece for The Strad to mark her 80th birthday (published in the...

Thanks to good old Youtube, here is a clip of this phenomenal yet not widely recognised Russian violinist playing the Chausson Poeme. Hirshh...

Speaking of organisations that enable music to change lives, Maxim Vengerov has just given a recital in a neurological hospital in Putney, c...

The sensational Rinat Shaham returns to Glyndebourne to sing Dorabella in Cosi fan tutte , opening next Tuesday, 22 May. I fear I shall hav...

Apparently Nigel Kennedy was heard discussing Tasmin's little excursion with Sean Rafferty on Radio 3's 'In Tune' yesterday ...

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

David Hurwitz at Classics Today has succeeded in writing the article I've been trying to write for 20 years about the deeply misguided m...

Tom and the LPO are off on tour today - they'll be arriving in Toronto late tonight, then heading for the East Coast of the States (smal...

Philippe Graffin is currently in Cape Town coaching the Hout Bay String Project. A report from Jan-Stefan's Kloof Street Blog has some...

Sad today to hear of the death of Emanuel Hurwitz, the inspiring violinist and teacher, aged 87. A good obituary in The Guardian from former...

I've discovered youtube.com at long last, and on it I found this . Roby Lakatos, live on Prinsengracht. Fiddle fetishists can find a who...

After hearing Leonidas Kavakos give the most incredible performance of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto the other week, I went into Amazon.co...

What a *&%$^&(&* week. Computer virus. Blown fuses in the light circuits on the 1st floor (not that I object to candlelit baths,...

Been here, seen this...at last. I've been wanting to go to Budapest for decades. Friends who studied there would return with tales of st...

Stormin' Norman is the latest writer to applaud the new Elgar Concerto CD - read his pithy piece from La Scena Musicale here . Recommend...

Addendum to Island Mentalities: the CD that sparked my article about Elgar, Kreisler and the original Elgar Violin Concerto manuscript is be...

I can't believe I did this. But today I went against all my principles and bought The Daily Telegraph. It's a newspaper that I feel ...

Tasmin Little is in Slovenia and she's writing reports on her progress there - yes, blogging - which you can read on her website here...

Oh yes! Norman tells it like it is . All I can add is that I wouldn't mind paying to hear this lady if I could stand what she does music...

This is the indomitable Norman Lebrecht's inspiring account of how he found himself performing the recitation in Schoenberg's '...