The Gloucester Cathedral chorister is now on the family tree. It's now officially #Christmas....

Time for my ‘Torches’ thread after hearing it introduced by Sarah Walker on BBC Radio 3 this morning. 🎄

Um, notice anything?

❝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… BBC Radio 3 Royal Philharmonic Society Bloomsbury Books UK The Guardian Guardian Books #cello

First rehearsal for the world premiere recording of Avril Coleridge-Taylor's Piano Concerto and it sounds phenomenal 🥹 recording with Samantha Ege, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra & 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻 𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘄𝘀 in January!!

One of the most special days of the BBC Radio 3 year takes place this Sunday. In partnership with EBU, this ten-hour celebration of live festive music with Andrew McGregor and Hannah French👩🏻‍🦽 takes us from Barcelona, to Reykjavík, to Helsinki, to Prague. Join us: midday to 10pm.

Of all the composers associated with Three Choirs Festival the one I probably feel most affinity with is FinziFriends In no small part due to Diana McVeagh's outstanding biography... which I constantly refer to ...

Enjoying some vintage (2001) Guildford Cathedral choir this morning. An interesting mixture, well performed.

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) Prof Janina Ramirez

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 Vaughan Williams Foundation stainer.co.uk/shop/b973/

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…

What a great correspondence on handwriting this has been

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).

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 pretty damning first five years of Brexit, quantified here rather neatly.

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.

Headline of the year. 😂

Really enjoying latest Three Choirs Festival project, researching the #Cheltenham background of Alice Parsons, librettist of Samuel Coleridge Taylor's 'The Atonement ' composed for the 1903 Festival

Another instalment of excellent orchestral works by Ruth Gipps in fine performances by BBC Philharmonic Orchestra & Rumon Gamba Chandos Records Well worth hearing. My MusicWeb review is at musicwebinternational.com/2025/01/gipps-…

New album alert! @BristolChoral under Hilary Campbell are releasing their new album 'Praise Him with Trumpets' with DELPHIAN on January 30th!🎺 Including 3 premiere recordings by Judith Weir, Elizabeth Poston, and my A Memory of the Ocean for choir, piano and cello!🌊