I’m not often grateful for a day of torrential rain, but today it meant that I could get on with a job which is at least a year overdue, and make some serious headway into the first edit of our Purcell’s Revenge album, recorded last April. So far there are 21 tracks done and just 2 to go, so with a bit of luck and some more rain, I might be in a position to start putting together a running order by tomorrow night.

Next Sunday I’ll be appearing on Clare Salaman’s Early Music Show on Radio 3, with some Concerto Caledonia-minded thoughts on How to be HIP: that’s Historically Informed Performance rather than 1950s youth culture.  As you can imagine, Clare and I have plenty to talk about so I think I might have made a bit more sense than I usually do when a mic is put in front of me. As a childish statement about the BBC’s political bias and the pathetic current state of its News & Current Affairs, I decorated said mic before leaving the studio. Also next Sunday on Classic FM, we might just find our way into Catherine Bott’s programme too.