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		<title>Gustav Leonhardt: a Few Words</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many people know, the great harpsichordist and conductor Gustav Leonhardt passed away on the 16th of January this year. Upon hearing the news, I took the time to write a few words of my memories of him and the great influence that he had on my own work. **** I had the honour and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ArtsDesk Panel: September 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in September, I had the pleasure of being involved in a panel for the UK-based &#8221;ArtsDesk&#8221; an organisation of which I am a personal fan. With the actor Toby Jones, singer Mara Carlyle, and dancer Bridgett Zehr, I was involved in a discussion about the &#8216;Art of Performance&#8217; &#8211; a very open-ended topic indeed. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review from &#8216;Opera Today&#8217; &#8211; May 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[27 May 2011 James Bowman, The Last London Recital It’s easy to slip into platitudes when eulogising the last London recital performance of a singer commonly lauded as the outstanding countertenor of his generation. After more than forty years of superlative music-making in the opera houses and concert halls of the world, on Saturday evening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A talk on the Goldberg Variations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a short talk I gave on the Goldberg Variations of J.S. Bach at the University of York in February of 2011; many flights of fancy aside, it&#8217;s worth sharing, I think: &#8212; The Goldberg Variations: A Few Remarks. &#8221;Count Kayserling, formerly Russian Ambassador at the Court of the Elector of Saxony, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quadro Melante: a programme of Bach, Telemann, and Rameau</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If any musician can be said to have been the &#8216;French Bach,&#8217; it would be Jean-Phillippe Rameau. Just as Sebastian Bach stayed true to the already outmoded models of his early training, Rameau, who spent the first fifty years of his life as a theorist and obscure provincial organist, stayed true to the traditions of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with the Manchester Camerata</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A short discussion with Mahan Esfahani...]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Classic FM</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the eve of a performance of the Goldberg Variations for the Lammermuir Festival in Scotland, I recently had the pleasure of an interview with Classic FM in which we talked about - amongst other things - Bach (of course).]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with BBC Music Magazine</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[''I would say with an attempt at some modesty (I hope) that I haven't had an audience member yet who hasn't come to feel more positively about the harpsichord after a bit of listening....'']]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;In the Beginning there was the Word&#8217;: Now What?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After finishing up the usual series of summer festivals, August is a good time to practise, rehearse with colleagues, plan programmes for the upcoming season, and to read all of the things that have been sitting on one&#8217;s nightstand since about last September or so. In January of this year I had made the resolution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Programme Notes: York Early Music Festival, July 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is well-known, at least here in Albion, that many a French specialty is of foreign origin. French cookery in its classic tradition descends, of course, from the innovations introduced by the capi cuochi of Catherine de Médicis. In the visual arts, the first School of Fontainebleau was virtually the private domain of Italians and Flemings, while [...]]]></description>
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