Sir – As one of your freelance reviewers, I am very sorry Rosemary Parke feels that The Oxford Times “completely ignored” Paul Lewis and Mark Padmore’s Oxford performance of Die schöne Müllerin (Letters, June 16). I am even more sorry that she wasn’t able to catch my review of this superb concert, which you published on June 2.
I hope, however, that she saw my feature interview with Paul Lewis, which appeared ahead of the concert in question. My review of Paul Lewis’s latest Oxford concert appears today.
For the record, I was asked to review the Oxford Philomusica concert Ms Parke also mentions. Alas, I had a clashing engagement that evening.
But I can assure her, from personal experience, that The Oxford Times is very far from having a policy of ignoring classical music — or indeed the arts in general.
Giles Woodforde, Kidlington
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