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The first volume of Julius’s Complete Songs of Liszt series for Hyperion, this volume with Matthew Polenzani, will be released in November 2010. Click cover for details…

A fabulous review from Musicweb International of Julius’s recital with Gerald Finley at the Edinburgh Festival. Click here to read…

Click here to read the first review (from The Scotsman) of Julius’s recital yesterday with Gerald Finley at the Edinburgh Festival.

A new book has just been published in German about Robert Schumann, featuring Julius. Click the cover for details…

Pianomania, the award winning film about the painstaking work of master piano-tuner, Stefan Knüpfer, and featuring Julius as one of the “titans of the keyboard”, opens in selected UK cinemas on 20 August 2010. Click below for more details…

Click here to read the transcription of an interview with Julius and Matthew Polenzani on BBC Radio 3 In Tune, 24 April 2010.

Julius’s CD with Gerald Finley of Songs and Proverbs of William Blake will be featuring on BBC Radio 3 CD Review TODAY between 10:00 and 11:00. Click below for details of the CD…

On Tuesday 3 August, BBC Radio 3,  at the end of the 1-5pm slot, highlights from Julius’s recital at last year’s Mananan Festival with Gillian Webster and Michael Collins, including Howells clarinet sonata and Schubert “Shepherd on the Rock” .
And on Friday 6 August, BBC Radio 3, again at the end of the 1-5pm slot, [...]

Julius’s new Britten CD with Gerald finley was named as CD of the Week in Saturday’s Telegraph: “Britten’s settings of Blake’s poems were written for the German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau … But this new recording tops it.”. Click CD cover…