He also played a prominent part in promoting works for piano duo with his wife Caroline Clemmow.
Among many concerto appearances, his most notable may have been at the Last Night of the Proms in 1976, in which he played Benjamin Britten's Diversions for piano left hand and orchestra.
They owned a pair of Grotrian-Steinweg grands, which they kept in the local church of St John the Baptist in Alkborough, North Lincolnshire, which was also the venue for many of their recordings.
[1] Their recordings were widely praised with Gramophone magazine saying "excellent sound and balance, too, the results always firmly focused and truthful in timbre...",[3] Music Web International finding that "the recording quality is excellent" [4] and "the piano sound is very good; rich and full with plenty of detail" [5] and The Classical Reviewer noting that "the church acoustic allows the music to expand magnificently" [6] Only Stephen Pritchard in a review in the Guardian said of one such recording that the acoustics were "sepulchral", and "pour[ed] some pretty cold water over some very hot music".
Founder of the Divine Art label Stephen Sutton was quoted as saying: "Until the very last week, he was writing to me about his projects, retaining an amazing level of wit and even frivolity in what must have been extremely difficult circumstances..." [8]