


Performer Focus: Sam Mitchell
“Widerstehe doch der Sünde warns and encourages the Christian to refrain from sin and strive to live a pure and godly life” It’s been about a year since we last caught up with you. Tell us what you’ve been up to? It’s been a wonderful year. I’ve had the privilege of...
Bach: The husband, the father, and the family man
Tomorrow is Father’s Day, so in this week’s newsletter we take a closer look at Bach the husband, the father, and the family man. Bach was prolific in all areas of his life – he wrote more than 215 cantatas, numerous preludes and fugues for the organ, and a good...
Did Bach die of diabetes?
The manner of Bach’s illness in his late years and his subsequent death has been a subject on which many music historians and Bach scholars have fiercely debated. This week is Diabetes Awareness Week (11 – 17 June), offering us the perfect opportunity to ask; did Bach...
Performer Focus: Tristan Fry
“I appeared on soundtracks for most of the James Bond films (since Goldfinger), Pink Panther, Alien, the Harry Potters, and Lord of the Rings…” o Tell us a bit about yourself, and your training and career to date? I joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO)...