My friends and acquaintances have been acquiring copies of my new CD and the soprano who premièred the original version of Faith, Hope and C...

My review of the Mozart Coronation Mass from Peter Neumann is here . Neumann’s accounts of the masses are pretty much spot-on ... And my rev...

Next week the East Finchley Arts Festival starts. This is an enterprising arts festival based in All Saints Church, East Finchley. The churc...

It seems that Annie Proulx has given permission for an opera based on her story, Brokeback Mountain , about two gay cowboys. Fellow Pulitzer...

We've just had the new season CD from Grange Park Opera. This year on the disc a description of the gardens at Nevill Holt (where the co...

Having taken delivery of my personal batch of CD's (my new disc which comes out on Divine Art label), we've been wading through the ...

My review of a disc of Bach Motets conducted by Robert Fountain is here on MusicWeb International. If you are looking for a good all-round ...

My copies of my new recording on the Divine Art label have arrived and look very fine. I understand they will be starting to hit the stores ...

On Thursday Ross Pople and the London Festival Orchestra gave the final concert in their Dutch Cornucopia season. The orchestra presented an...

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 ...