We’ve been really touched by the responses to the first disc in our ‘Brahms and Contemporaries’ series on Chandos Records, and hope you enjoy this video giving a taste of both pieces - the lyrical beauty of Luise Adolpha Le Beau + the fiery coda of Brahms’ 2nd piano quartet!

Leicester. September. Great music. Come!

That could fund Welsh National Opera for 100 years! (Meanwhile, Bristol airport’s pretty close…)

"Nature is a key theme in this concerto, but its influence is more particular than at first appears. Cheryl Frances-Hoad's own comprehensive note about the work – combining facts about swifts, phytoplankton and volcanoes – reads a bit like a script to a David Attenborough documentary."

A chance to join our fantastic and pioneering Learning & Participation Team, working alongside the marvellous Chris Bell and the rest of the team… brittensinfonia.com/who-we-are/vac…

Woohoo 🎉

22-26 August 2024 - coming soon! Younger generation composers at Presteigne Festival | Gŵyl Llanandras 2024 – fab new works from nathan james dearden James Albany Hoyle (Royal Philharmonic Society composer) Sarah Frances Jenkins Tayla-Leigh Payne Lara Poe and James B. Wilson Full details & booking shorturl.at/XX9x1

Great to have a review in the The Guardian of our concerts at Three Choirs Festival Festival “It was the calm authority and exquisite precision with which … GBSR duo delivered their late evening recital that made an immaculately conceived programme so memorable.” theguardian.com/music/article/…

A new single is released today from our album due out on Chandos Records later in the month, it’s Mondnacht op39 No.5, by Robert Schumann. Julius Drake and I have played this music together for many years and it feels like the right time to share it. classical.music.apple.com/us/recording/r…

📣Come and work with our fab team at Leeds Lieder :) Please share this far and wide. Thanks! 📣

Three months ago, #SDLW had a great time at the #SprengelMuseum and at Classical:NEXT. Now the next SDLW concert is coming up on 31 August at "Intersecting Encounters", opening the Berlin Month of Contemporary Music at Kühlhaus Berlin! Get tickets here: intersecting-encounters.eventbrite.de

We just dropped in on Liz Truss’s pro-Trump speaking tour with a remote-controlled lettuce banner. She didn’t find it funny. 🥬

Absolutely FANTASTIC!! SDLW are epic and this disc is phenomenally exciting to listen to.

This is a lovely interview with Cheryl Frances-Hoad in Choir & Organ. Cheryl shares more about the tenth anniversary commission and what audiences can expect from this new work created with poet Kate Wakeling and people from the Southwell community.

Our recording of music by the Schumanns is out today on Chandos Records available wherever you get your music. Julius Drake open.spotify.com/album/1nkSHJav… classical.music.apple.com/us/album/17530…

Professor Alexander (Sandy) Goehr. Fellow 1976-1999, Honorary Fellow from 2000. Our flag is flying at half-mast today in his memory. trinhall.cam.ac.uk/news/professor…

Next dates 30.8. Lucerne Festival Masterclass 31.8. 11h Recital Lucerne 31.8. 21h SDLW Berlin Kühlhaus 8.9. Wigmore Hall London 14.9. Konzerthaus Berlin Nono

'You've nailed down who I am from a completely anonymous database.' Prof Tim Harford explains how a person can be identified from just their birthday, gender and a rough idea of where they live. 🎬 | Oxford Mathematics

Thanks for taking us to number 1! This music is truly great. Thank you Clara and Robert. Chandos Records Julius Drake

What a Saturday! 2 concerts ,2 countries ,3 trains 1 flight ,mixed in countless creative forces. Photo is from concert nr.2 with my favorite band SDLW ,and the first concert after the German Critics Award for the latest CD