After the term of exams that university students work so hard for, the sudden summer break is seen as a vast chasm of empty time, the long summer months stretching out seemingly endlessly before the next year of education begins.

Haydn Die Schopfung (The Creation), Hob.XXI:2 (Sung in English) Walking into Rouen in search of some refreshment late on our first evening in France, we passed the grand Abbatiale Saint-Ouen, Rouen’s second major church and the venue for the second

Anything can happen at a concert and in the three decades of my career I have experienced some unexpected and memorable incidents. Flying Batons Charles Dutoit was the principal guest conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra in the 1980’s. He conducted

There are audible sighs of relief in the church of All Hallows, Gospel Oak as producer John Rutter announces his satisfaction with our last take, and it’s time for a break and a quick cup of tea. It’s the evening

The first time I met Alain, it was in a small Parisian café, almost two years ago. Prior to our meeting, I had taken an extensive look at his website forgotten records, and fallen instantly in love with his selection

As a music student here, it seems odd that, for a university with such an amazingly diverse and active music scene, performance at Cambridge makes up a very small amount of your final degree. The option to give a recital only appears

Ludwig van Beethoven 7 Variations in E flat major on Bei Mannern, welche Liebe fuhlen from Mozart’s Die Zauberflote, WoO 46 Paul Hindemith Sonata op.11 no. 3 Musicians are fallible. Most of the time we attain near perfection in our

Edward Elgar Symphony No. 1 in A flat major, Op. 55 Musicians love audiences. The more of them there are, the merrier. Little do they know that they are as visible to us as we are to them. Audiences think