Diary of Musical Thoughts

This might seem like an unusual topic for a history podcast, but co-host Dominic Sandbrook wrote his doctorate on American politics in the 1...

(It's been a while since my last post, and that's because I have undertaken a listening marathon while quietly compiling these 5000 ...

Putting aside the egregious editing mistake in the header -- note that this is a singles list, not a songs list -- this is a rare 90's ...

Tonight's concert was wonderfully varied and was headlined by the sensational Martha Argerich playing Shostakovich's Piano Concerto ...

I was surprised to see an album by the fourth best act from the second most famous 90's Bristol scene featured in Pitchfork's Sunda...

Two great works by two symphonic masters -- and also a daring bit of programming.  Schubert's Unfinished is by far the more popular work...

John Eliot Gardiner's recordings of Schumann's orchestral works are both celebrated and controversial – it depends on who you ask. ...

The sentence above is the money line from Elizabeth Lopatto's piece about Spotify for The Verge.  She's ostensibly writing a book r...

I picked up this 10 CD box several months ago and listened to it in fits and spurts, but in the past week I made a point of listening to th...

December 15 was traditionally the day that I would roll out that year's Top Ten list(s).  For the fifth consecutive year, that won't...