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New album alert! @BristolChoral under Hilary Campbell are releasing their new album 'Praise Him with Trumpets' with @delphianrecords on January 30th!🎺 Including 3 premiere recordings by Judith Weir, Elizabeth Poston, and my A Memory of the Ocean for choir, piano and cello!🌊
Another instalment of excellent orchestral works by Ruth Gipps in fine performances by @BBCPhilharmonic & @Rumongamba @ChandosRecords Well worth hearing. My @MusicWebInt review is at musicwebinternational.com/2025/01/gipps-…
Really enjoying latest @ThreeChoirs project, researching the #Cheltenham background of Alice Parsons, librettist of Samuel Coleridge Taylor's 'The Atonement ' composed for the 1903 Festival
Headline of the year. 😂
Interesting advice from the police to desperate residents asking for help against crime: play classical music, but not too loudly.
So far in 1066: • Edward the Confessor has died. • Harold Godwineson has been named king instead of Edgar Ætheling. • Edward has been buried. • Harold has been crowned. It's still only 6 January.
A pretty damning first five years of Brexit, quantified here rather neatly.
An early 12th century service book was re-used and inadvertently saved when a paper valuation of the monastery's property at the time of the dissolution in 1540-1541 was protected by using a few folios of the old manuscript. (WCM C871)
A letter from King Charles I in 1642 to the newly promoted Bishop of Worcester ordering him to give up his canon's place at Christchurch Oxford and the rectory of Ewelme, because the King has someone else to take over as reader of divinity at Oxford (WCM D21).
What a great correspondence on handwriting this has been
Happy New Year! 🎆 Applications open today for MA/PhD Vaughan Williams Scholarships. Grants of up to £8K are awarded to applicants who show exceptional compositional talent and who intend to make composition their professional career. Details here: vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org/funding/postgr…
Behold! A Sea Symphony critical edition full score is now available for pre-release discount. Prepared by David Matthews, the edition includes key updates to the orchestration and has been meticulously re-engraved. Published with kind support of @VWFndn stainer.co.uk/shop/b973/
The Winter Warmer digital festival is coming. Enjoy 50 events broadcast over 25 days all from the comfort of home. And you have six weeks to catch up and view them all. Nourish your mind this winter! From Friday 24 January (Tickets go on sale Friday 10 Jan) @DrJaninaRamirez
Of all the composers associated with @ThreeChoirs the one I probably feel most affinity with is @finzi_friends In no small part due to Diana McVeagh's outstanding biography... which I constantly refer to ...
One of the most special days of the @BBCRadio3 year takes place this Sunday. In partnership with @EBU_HQ, this ten-hour celebration of live festive music with @andrewCDmcg and @hannahcfrench takes us from Barcelona, to Reykjavík, to Helsinki, to Prague. Join us: midday to 10pm.
First rehearsal for the world premiere recording of Avril Coleridge-Taylor's Piano Concerto and it sounds phenomenal 🥹 recording with Samantha Ege, @BBCPhilharmonic & @JKAConductor in January!!
❝I was loving life as a cellist – then something snapped❞ My article has been published in The Guardian today 🗞 I’d love for you to read it and share your own stories 💛 theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2… @BBCRadio3 @RoyalPhilSoc @BloomsburyBooks @guardian @GuardianBooks #cello
Time for my ‘Torches’ thread after hearing it introduced by @drsarahwalker on @BBCRadio3 this morning. 🎄
Torches! 🧵 1/ In the early 1950s my mum taught briefly at a secondary school for girls in #Hull. She asked Dad to write a carol for the girls to sing that she could accompany on the piano. He chose words from the 1928 Oxford Book of Carols ...
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