I Did It Steinway

At the end of last month I missed one of the best proms this year: Yunchan Lim playing Beethoven, Bruckner and Tüür.

A Little Night Music

Yesterday evening I sat under a London plane in Kensington Gardens near the Albert Memorial for a picnic.

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The Elphi

I went to visit sugar and oil traders in Hamburg a few times over the years, unfortunately before the Elphi opened in 2017.

The White Stuff

I’m going to shut my eyes and you are going to write down your three favourite musicals.

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Paul Who?

A 20th century author (1897 –  1976) who wrote more than forty books, lots adapted for film, TV and the wireless, had four wives, two children and he has never been mentioned in almost 2,600 posts – incroyable!

Walking to Rome

This is Francis Plowden’s debut album. I hope you heard Lockdown Blues yesterday. He is a natural successor to Lance Percival whose improvised satirical calypsos were favourites of mine.

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