Author Archives: Matthew Barley

On the left you’ll see a tab called Music is… and there you will find a whole bunch of wonderful quotes about music. Some really incredible ones: why is that […]

Back at Kings Place tomorrow for a first recital with Vanessa Benelli Mosell, a gifted young Italian pianist I’m really looking forward to working with. The programme is a delight. […]

Last night at the Royal Albert Hall there was great joy in celebrating the life and musical times of the great Jon Lord, most famous for his time as keyboard […]

It seems incredible that this is the first post I’ve managed since the Britten year – I must have been tired…well, this one could hardly be further from Britten, but […]

Amazingly, I am actually coming to the end of the Around Britten tour – just a couple of weeks left. But some exciting ones still to come: this Friday, the […]