My review of the Katona twins guitar duo's disc of Vivaldi is here , on MusicWeb International

The biggest event on my own musical horizon this season is, of course, the release of my CD The Testament of Dr. Cranmer on the Divine Art ...

My choir, London Concord Singers , has started rehearsing for our Christmas Concert. The programme is an interesting mix of Advent and Chris...

Tonight we are going to the the first concert in the new S.W. Mitchell Virtuoso Piano series, presented at the Cadogan Hall by the London Fe...

I only heard Luciano Pavarotti live once. Rather bizarrely it was during the 1st Gulf War (we'd been due to go to Egypt and chose New Yo...

My review of a disc of Bach Oboe concertos is here , on MusicWeb International. This is probably not a library choice, but certainly should ...

An illuminating interview with James MacMillan, regarding the creation of his new opera The Sacrifice . Evidently he and his librettist, Mic...

We are planning a FifteenB concert on Saturday 23rd February, 2008. The concert is planned to be at St. Peter's Church, Eaton Square, w...

On Wednesday we (the librettist and I) met to discuss the progress so far on the new opera. Its the first time that I've worked so inter...

Its is a considerable number of years since I was in any way involved in active gay politics, and even then I wasn't that active; more j...

On Friday we went to one of the final performances of the St. Matthew Passion at Glyndebourne. Katie Mitchell, in her production has opted ...

On Thursday we went to another instalment of the Tete a Tete opera festival. This time the party included the librettist of my new opera. W...

Rather late, I'm afraid, come my gleanings from the August edition of Opera. The main interview is with Nina Stemme. An attractive Swede...

We're off the the Tete a Tete opera festival at the Riverside Studios again on Thursday for another stimulating evening. The on Friday ...

On Saturday we saw Elgar's Apostles at the Proms. A work that I enjoy seeing once every 10 years or so. The City of Birmingham Symphony...

Last Friday (17th August) we went off to the Tete a Tete opera festival at the Riverside Studios. There were three events that evening. To ...

I see that the programme for next year's London Handel Festival is on line. It looks interesting as ever. The oratorio is Joshua , one o...

If you read Ethel Smyth’s autobiography she has some very amusing things to say about the trials of a young composer dealing with copyists, ...

The ever enterprising Tete-a-Tete opera company, directed by Bill Bankes-Jones, are in the middle of their 3 week opera festival at the Rive...

Chelsea Opera Group have just announced the 3 operas which they are performing next season. After my rather jaded reaction to the Royal Oper...