American author Paul Elie thinks that Bach is particularly well placed to flourish in the age of recording because of the nature of his music. And he feels that Bach, a practical and inventive person, would have approved of all this technological innovation.
Read my review of his book here. It’s published in the Arts and Books section of Saturday’s Independent.
Tickets have just gone on sale for my lunchtime recital at Wigmore Hall in London on Friday April 17. Click here for booking...
They were talking on the radio about the good things that reading can do for your brain. Reading a book, that is, as opposed to...
I've finished reading several novels I received as Christmas presents. All were enjoyable, but at least two of them seemed to run out...
‘… measured out our life with coffee cantatas’ – oh, how clever! Glorious!