To mark the UK's National Poetry Day, 8th October, here's George Eliot's great poem about violin making and the obsession with which...

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

I had a lovely morning yesterday talking to cellist Natalie Clein for two forthcoming articles – about her new Saint-Saëns disc, for...

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

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...