five different depressing on-the-nose metaphors crash into each other accidentally creating a charles ives-like masterpiece and saving music

World is 100% hell but for those with time to seek some respite the just-released BreconBaroqueFest Goldberg Variations Reimagined is the thing. What a beautiful achievement.

Tell you what I missed when it came out was the @dunedinconsort JSB orchestral suites album and phwoaaaar

Due orchestre, due cori, tre solisti, un organico eccezionale per l'esecuzione di un capolavoro assoluto del secondo Novecento: un compianto sulla guerra, un inno alla pace. Vasily Petrenko dirige il 𝗪𝗔𝗥 𝗥𝗘𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗘𝗠 di #Britten
Da questa sera!
👉 bit.ly/3SUHMAg

Cultural desertification piece by piece until the whole ecosystem collapses. What can you say.

📣 Announcing Handel for All! All of Handel’s music online, on film, free, anytime, anywhere.
First, Let the bright Seraphim with the fabulous Rachel Redmond in Samson.
Full performance available here: englishconcert.co.uk/handel-for-all…

LondonHandelFestival Continuo Foundation Handel Hendrix House

where 2 cop Marc-André Hamelin's jumper youtube.com/watch?v=HlDgW6…

Proper good recording of the Piece d'Orgue by my critical standard of 'are there so many nasty partials and overtones I might give myself a migraine aura' open.spotify.com/track/6U6oprU0…

Fascinating weekend coming up with EFDSS Vaughan Williams Memorial Library conference at Cecil Sharp House. Gwilym Bowen Johnny Herford & I will give a recital exploring RVW & the folk song at 11:30 on Saturday, introduced by John Francis of Ralph Vaughan Williams Society #RVW efdss.org/whats-on/61-co…

Only partially bitterly rhetorical question, I would genuinely like to know: is there any Labour policy on the arts or reaction to today's bloodbath?

Whatever happens this morning to English especially London arts organisations, there will be a lot of upset and self-blame where there should be anger. Remember this isn’t the fault of arts leaders or even ACE, it’s 12 years of Tory austerity funding, followed by Nadine Dorries.

I had the pleasure of tenor Gwilym Bowen's company today for a photo shoot where we explored a number of different portrait styles.

Noted by The Times newspaper as 'something of a rising glory', Bowen' repertory ranges from the Baroque to the contemporary Gwilym Bowen