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.
A kind reader in the US (thank you Diana) has alerted me to the fact that my book Women and the Piano is one of Jeremy Denk's choices...
Today, January 27, is Mozart's birthday. 269 years since he was born! His is the only 'composer birthday' I regularly remember, I...
On the last day of the year I have been looking through the list of books I read during the year. This year I seem to have read 36...
‘… measured out our life with coffee cantatas’ – oh, how clever! Glorious!