When not performing and teaching, I am a keen (some would say manic) gardener, I love cooking (Italian, Spanish, Magyar, you name it), I read a lot (especially nineteenth-century novels), and I am an inveterate haunter of junk-shops. Finding space for plants, books and “stuff” is a never-decreasing problem.
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Music and Singing
Favourite counter-tenors - James Bowman, Max Emanuel Cencic, Alfred Deller, Kangmin Justin Kim, Yuri Minenko and Denis Lakey
Three of my favourite singers, supreme examples to us all, technically and artistically - Lina Bruna Rasa, Janet Baker and Shirley Verrett
Nicola Porpora and Giovanni Adolfo Hasse, rivals of Handel in London
Dartington International Summer School - the best!
Benslow Music - year-round courses for performers of all abilities.
For refugees from BBC Radio 3, try Bartók Radio from Hungary (click on ÉLÕADÁS and enjoy trying to understand the announcements)
Annie Mawson's Sunbeams Music Trust, a wonderful music therapy organisation
ARCOS, a marvellous charity helping people with all kinds of communication problems
Mad about plants?
The Royal Horticultural Society
For "plantaholics" (like me)
http://www.hardy-plant.org.uk/
The best public garden
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
The best private garden
Great Dixter
Mad about books?
http://www.gutenberg.org/
http://www.usedbooksearch.co.uk/
Mad about art?
Budapest, my favourite city:
