In late August 2025, I returned to Lahti for my fourth Sibelius Festival feeling a bit like a regular. It wasn’t the original plan, but festivals have a habit of growing on us, especially those of us who suffer a…
The Blessed Damozel (1875 – 1878) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti I have written before on this site about my enthusiasm for the so-called Pre-Raphaelite artists, my favourites being Edward Burne-Jones (1833 – 1898) and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 – 1882) but…
The Times ran an article yesterday that might have seemed dull to some but was pure delight to a classical music geek like me. They asked nine different writers to name their favourite numbered symphony – each writer having just…