David Dimbleby and I enjoyed bread, soup and wine at tonight's immersive candlelight performance of Byrd's Mass for 5 Voices from @thegesualdosix.bsky.social & viol consort Fretwork, recreating the secretive Catholic worship of sixteenth-century England
Lunchtime organ recital from Robbie Carroll at Rochester Cathedral including some Holst, Elgar and [honouring today's date] the theme from Star Wars
A fine performance of Dvorak Symphony 7 (perhaps his best?!) from the LPO and Lidiya Yankovskaya. The work was commissioned by the London Philharmonic Society in 1884 with the composer himself conducting its first performance at St James's Hall
Fantastic workshop from The Sixteen today singing works by William Byrd, Amy Beach and Charles Wood + expert sessions on vocal health and nutrition. Huge thanks to Eamonn Dougan, Charlotte Mobbs, Julie Cooper and Freddie Ingles
A privilege to join the chorus for Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius in Rochester Cathedral with @rochesterchoral.bsky.social and Rochester Sinfonietta. A truly epic work with some exquisite choral writing, and using an edition by my old music professor Bruce Wood
Sitting behind the horns for a powerful performance of Tchaikovsky Symphony 5 from Philharmonia Orchestra & Ryan Bancroft, plus Ravel's Piano Concerto with Bruce Liu, and Britten's Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
A majestic revival of Rubbra's Piano Concerto in G major from Mark Bebbington & @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social tonight at Cadogan Hall. The first performance since it's London premiere 70 years ago conductor Nil Venditti explains - and it's a gem!
Back to Rochester Cathedral for more singing, in John Stainer's oratorio The Crucifixion
A long weekend in Leamington Spa for the Music Teachers' Association Conference including choral workshops with Sir John Rutter and BBC Get Singing, dinner with the London Vegetable Orchestra, and seeing the first-class music facilities enjoyed by students at Warwick Schools Foundation
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A wonderful celebration of Dame Myra Hess at @wigmore-hall.org.uk on whose stage she built her career. @jessicaduchen.bsky.social was in conversation with Nigel Hess treating us to recordings of the great pianist, a film of her National Gallery concerts, and stories from her superb new biography
