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		<title>In Defence of Not Apologising</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8221;In Defence of Not Apologising,&#8221; a brief essay. &#8211; Compared to the general order that in theory is supposed to reign in adult social and professional life, the playground of our childhood days was a pretty rough place. One either had to go with the crowd in certain activities or pretty much consign oneself to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m Proud to Take Part in the Proms</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 01:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past summer, I was asked to write a few words for the Guardian (www.guardian.co.uk) on the broadcast of several Proms to the Persian-speaking world (including my homeland, Iran). Here&#8217;s what I had to say: &#8211; This summer, BBC Persian&#8216;s television service is broadcasting eight of the Proms concerts from London to the Persian-speaking world. Some 100m potential [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gustav Leonhardt: a Few Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
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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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