Yesterday morning I had the very great pleasure of being a guest on BBC Radio 3’s Record Review, chatting to Chris O’Reilly of Presto Classical and our lovely host Andrew McGregor about a host of new releases and – since it was Record Store Day – how people consume recorded
One of the many reasons why I’m continually delighted by my freelance existence is the capacity it affords me to try new things. Usually (unless a would-be employer is feeling particularly kamikaze) the ‘new thing’ is in some way connected with a skill-set or knowledge basis that I already have:
When I was a student at Nottingham University, back in the dim and distant past, I was invited to join a group of friends at a performance of Opera North’s Der Rosenkavalier in town. I’d never seen the show before, and as far as I knew, I didn’t really know
