‘At the Guildhall [during the Bath Mozartfest], pianist Susan Tomes joined forces with the Viennese fiddler Erich Hoebarth for an all-Mozart programme of four sonatas for ‘fortepiano with violin accompaniment’ and one of his most significant fragments, Fantasia in C minor for solo piano … While the sonatas with violin – (K307, 376, 378, 379) […]

More reviews of my book ‘Out of Silence’, translated into Japanese by Noriko Ogawa, have arrived from Tokyo. I must say these Japanese reviews are absolutely my favourites so far. Their flavour suggests Noriko was right when she said that Japanese people would be on my wavelength, or vice versa. I particularly treasure a review […]

The Japanese music magazine ‘Ongaku no tomo’ (Friends of Music) has published this review of my book ‘Out of Silence’, translated by Noriko Ogawa. The delightful translation of the review is by a friend in Japan: ‘Susan Tomes sets a high values on encounters with audience, landscape, history, nature and so on at her destination. […]

Noriko Ogawa, who translated my book ‘Out of Silence’ into Japanese, reports that the first reviews have started appearing in Japan. To our great delight the book is one of three chosen this week by the Nikkei Shinbun (Financial Times of Japan) as “Connoisseurs’ choice”.  Unfortunately I can’t give the direct link because I’m not […]

On this morning’s ‘A Point of View’ on Radio 4, Adam Gopnik shared some amusing thoughts about how authors deal with negative reviews. He described how many authors write fierce late-night responses and reubuttals, which they’re usually dissuaded from sending. He concluded that it is much more elegant to wait a while and then write […]