“At a time when classical music in this country continues to be relentlessly sidelined (last Friday’s death of Rostropovich – one of the greatest musicians who ever lived – was deemed unworthy of a single paragraph in all but one of Sunday’s broadsheets), surely we should be uniting as never before? And by ‘we’, I mean all of us who love classical music and are fed up with it being persistently pushed to the periphery.”