I just came across this lovely BBC documentary about Casals. I could do without seeing the researcher, Robert Baldock, playing Bach and...

Gary Hoffman is one of the music world’s best-kept secrets, a fine and uncompromising cellist whose rare appearances mesmerise. For him,...

I recently interviewed Eugene Drucker about his Southbank Centre concert with the Emerson Quartet on Sunday, 16 November, which you can...

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra has handily published this wonderfully detailed data about the concerts played in the 2014–2015 season...

A new documentary suggests that Mrs Bach was behind the greatest works by her husband Johann Sebastian. But does it ring true? You know...

The legendary violinist Kyung Wha Chung makes her much-awaited London comeback this December, after more than a decade away. On a recent...

While I’ve been researching my article on violinists who’ve crossed musical borderlines, for Sinfini Music, I found myself debating with...

Musical timing and closure, hearing and thinking for ourselves – just some of the things that teaching often fails to help us with,...

Last night's Proms concert with the Budapest Festival Orchestra was ravishing, but raised an uncomfortable question I have a friend who...

Two weeks at a violin practice retreat were life-changing for me, but left me wondering why there aren't enough places for amateur...

While we're on the subject of Leopold Auer, it's not possible to mention his roll-call of students without referencing this wonderful...

Responses to my post about Menuhin's vibrato drew a mixture of responses. I’d remarked on it being ‘perfectly shaped’ and ‘fluid’ and...

I came across this footage of Menuhin playing Bach's 'Air on the G String'. Just look at his left hand – is that not the most perfectly...

I came across this lovely film while on my research into classical artists who have explored other genres. It's beautiful to watch the...

I'm currently researching an article for Sinfini Music about violin stars who branch out into other styles, and came across this...

My latest interview for Cozio, with violinist James Ehnes, has just gone live, so please go and visit. He had so much to say about his...

The British Pathé YouTube archive is proving to be a charming source of films about the violin, in all its forms. Here is a soundless...

I just came across this delightful footage on the British Pathé YouTube channel. It shows a class of 'budding Kreislers' from 1940...

Amid the commemorations of the start of the First World War, you might like a bit of respectful levity, so here is Charlie Chaplin's...

The great screen comedian was an accomplished amateur violinist who composed many of the scores to his films At the height of his...