Hammerklavier

Languages, classical music and stuff

John Taylor

This is the second in a series of articles on the joys of translation.

I interview pianist Filippo Gorini on his multimedia tribute to Bach's masterpiece (while he's staying in a rather special house)

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The West Country, folk-songs and glow-worms

'It is far easier to be sensible in cities than in many country places I could tell you of,' observes Yeats in The Celtic Twilight. 'When...

In memory of Edward Thomas

Today marks 107 years since the death of the British poet and writer Edward Thomas, one of the most simply, honestly lyrical voices of...

Ely Cathedral, King Arthur, haiku and falcons

I always go back to a line from Purgatorio whose effect, I think, was much elevated through a stroke of inspiration from the translator...

Birdsong, salmon and patience

From Irish Fairytales, by James Stephens. A young boy, Fionn, finds the poet Finegas fishing by the river, and upon enquiring why, they...

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