Patrick Allies

It's been a difficult year for traditional church music in England. Resignations and closures have rocked choirs and choirs schools...

Sacred choral music and competitive sport - two passions of mine that don’t usually overlap. One of the few times they do is at the FA...

The official website of Milan Cathedral offers a history of the eminent musicians who have worked at the building. Among those listed as...

In August this year, news broke that St Asaph’s Cathedral in Wales had made its Director and Assistant Director of Music redundant. The...

I read this article in the Spectator last night and felt that I wanted to write a response. Here it is: Let me say this at the outset: I...

My first encounter with the music of Hieronymus Praetorius was as a 12-year-old treble. I was singing at the Edington Festival, an...

Last night, as most of London was on its way home from work, I cycled along the Thames to Chelsea, to take part in what has become a...

On reading Lucy Denyer's piece in today's Daily Telegraph I nearly spilt my coffee down my International Women's Day t-shirt. Denyer's...

Herbert Howells and Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gloucester 1956 I have been reading Paul Spicer's fascinating biography of Herbert Howells,...

In the aftermath of the Conservative party conference this week, something has been troubling me. It could have been one of many...

Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina at the piano Recently, when BBC Radio 3 devoted itself to playing music by female composers to...