Musician, critic, lecturer and translator. Passions: cricket, Brighton & Hove Albion, cats and books. All rants my own.
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My review of Michael Lloyd's farewell concert with the Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra is now up on midlandsmusicreviews.co.uk
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My review of Julian Lloyd Webber's autobiography "Bows and Arrows" is now up on midlandsmusicreviews.co.uk
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Norman Stinchcombe's review of the CBSO'S concert with Ilan Volkov is now up on midlandsmusicreviews.co.uk
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My review of Frank Peter Zimmerman's recording of the Elgar Violin Concerto with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Edward Gardner is now up on midlandsmusicreviews.co.uk
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No mention of orchestra and conductor in Opera Now's review of Handel's Orlando at Longborough Festival Opera.
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My review of the English Symphony Orchestra's Malvern Priory concert at the Elgar Festival, and Norman Stinchcombe's of the CBSO'S May 28 concert are now up on midlandsmusicreviews.co.uk
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My review of Florilegium at the Chipping Camden Festival is now up on midlandsmusicreviews.co.uk
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Christopher Morley retweeted
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The BBC refuse to hold scammer Farage to account. MPs are meant to declare ALL gifts over £300 in the calendar year leading up to their election.
I refuse to look away. Repost if you feel the same.
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Anyone else noticed BBC Radio 3's playlist is becoming as repetitious as Classic FM's?
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What on earth has happened to BBC'S Round Britain Quiz? So chummy and so up itself.
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Norman Stinchcombe's review of the CBSO'S May6 concert is now up on midlandsmusicreviews.co.uk
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My preview of Leamington Sinfonia's Mahler Symphony of a Thousand is now up on midlandsmusicreviews.co.uk
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Norman Stinchcombe's latest CD roundup is now up on midlandsmusicreviews.co.uk
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Stupid fucking Americans applauded thinking Gremin's aria had finished. There were another couple of lines. They hadn't the grace to feel abashed...
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Why don't these unctuous, superfluous commentators Live from the Met lambast the insensitive, culturally immature American audience for applauding before the orchestra has finished the postludes? Barbarians.
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Is the upstart Trump related to the King that he can refer to him as "Charles"?
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Trump has truly flipped. Shakespeare, thou shouldst be living now...
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My review of Welsh National Opera's Blaze of Glory is now up on midlandsmusicreviews.co.uk
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My review of Welsh National Opera's Flying Dutchman is now up on midlandsmusicreviews.co.uk
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Norman Stinchcombe's review of the CBSO's Italian concert is now up on midlandsmusicreviews.co.uk
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