The plague years

Works by Handel, Liszt, J Strauss I, J Strauss II and Tchaikovsky Duo Pleyel Linn Records CKD757 56:36 mins Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya and Richard Egarr name themselves after the 1848 Pleyel they own,

Q My grandfather, Thomas Gilbert Holman, was born in 1869/70. The earliest record I have for him is as a ‘visitor’ in the household of Walter Fitch, in Kelvedon, Essex, in the 1911 census. He is singl

Peter J Gaskin of Ipswich, Suffolk remembers: I have been a Status Quo fan for many years and try to see them every time they come to my home town of Ipswich in Suffolk. In 1999, the Quo embarked on t