Away for the weekend, we managed to catch Evensong in St. Edmundsbury Cathedral on Saturday. It must be confessed that our reasons for visit...

The four Advent Motets from Tempus per Annum and the motet Nunc Dimittis are now available from Choirworks.com . Nunc Dimittis is here a...

My review of Gluck's Ezio is here . Charming and involving ...

I know it seems an awful thing to say, but by the time we come to the end of 2 months worth of of Proms, I am starting to feel rather glad i...

On Friday we went to the Wigmore Hall for Emmanuel Despax's recital. Despax won the Jacques Samuel competition in 2005 and made is debut...

My review of British Youth Opera's production of Jonathan Dove's Flight is here on Music and Vision.

There is a good obit. of Tod Handley here . And an interesting interview, on the subject of his Bax series, here .

Some of my motets, notably ones from my Tempus per Annum sequence will be appearing on the ChoirWorks.com web site. You can see the catalo...

My review of La Rondine is here , on Music and Vision.

My review of the disc of Requiem masses by Campra and Michael Haydn is here . New light shed on Haydn’s Requiem ... And my review of Surpris...

The final area of authenticity I'd like to consider is the issue of castrato voices. This is an area where we can never hope to recaptur...

On Monday we went to Cadogan Hall to hear the penultimate Proms Chamber Music concert. The Nash Ensemble with tenor Mark Padmore gave Samuel...

My review of Rossini's Il Turco in Italia , from the 2007 Pesaro Festival, is here on MusicWeb International. Live … a capable but not ...

The period performance revolution is now very mature. Some of the earliest early music groups have been going for some considerable time (A...

My review of Sir Malcolm Sargent's recording of The Mikado is here . Strongly operatic cast letting their hair down a little, superb di...

Continuing my theme of developing authenticity in performance there are two further areas about which I've been thinking. The first is d...

In 1972 I was a lowly viola on the back desk of the Grimsby, Cleethorpes and District Youth Orchestra. The orchestra was the most senior of...

Tuesday night's Prom was the Ralph Vaughan Williams centenary Prom. The works included ranged from the Tallis Fantasia from 1907 to the...

I have just received the Arts Council's news letter, a glossy publication which comes out every few months. In it, the Arts Council high...

My review of Bernhard Lang's opera I hate Mozart is here , on Music Web International. A lively and rather off-the-wall little gem ...