It was a joy to involve your excellent young singers ..bravo to you all !!

This week’s concert is dedicated to the memory of Laura Samuel, Leader of BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra & great friend of the RSNO. As we perform Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No1 & Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade in A minor, our thoughts will be with Laura’s family & friends. 📸

Réaliser ensemble l’impossible. C’est la France.

A reindeer under the incredible Northern Lights. Nature is amazing. Protect it. #ActOnClimate #biodiversity

Harriet is one of Creative Britain’s greatest assets. Let’s see whether her party is really listening. #fixENO #fixWNO #fixNBallet

This is the wonderful Black Dyke Band after our sell-out ‘Yorkshire Christmas Extravaganza’ at Sheffield City Hall yesterday. If you’re stuck for a Christmas present their JOHN RUTTER: BRASS AT CHRISTMAS album is riding high in the classical chart.

On Monday I’ll be performing my book FRED AND THE FANTASTIC TUB-TUB with the Orpheus Sinfonia at Eastbourne’s Congress Theatre at 3pm including THE SNOWMAN. Snap up a signed book afterwards as a stocking filler! 🎄 TICKETS: zebsoanes.com/events/2024/tu…

Rutland music lovers (those who've not followed me as groupies to Wroclaw, that is) should surely go to this !!

How wonderful of Father Christmas to take time from his busy schedule to present today’s family concerts at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and our tree was far from wooden in his magnificent conducting! 🎄 Do join us when we do it again tomorrow at 11.30am and 2.30pm! liverpoolphil.com/whats-on/all-s…

The most special Christmas experience of the past week, watching ‘Soanes’ class sing ‘Christmas is Here’ from Gaspard’s Christmas at Surrey Square School in South London — they were brilliant and it was such an honour to be there. Thank you and a very happy Christmas 🙏 ❤️

Writing in the Telegraph, Master of the King’s Musick, Errollyn Wallen, rightly remarks on how so few of today’s children know the carols that were once the background to our lives. Errollyn Wallen Petroc Trelawny BBC Radio 3 Christopher Howse St Davids Cathedral Mark W. TraditionalBritain

Watercoloursbyrachel #AdventCalender Happy Christmas Eve, Eve x Day 23 "I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars" #watercolour #Christmas #indigo #nightsky #stars #moonlight #fox #ChristmasCountdown #art #sky

Radio 3, Through the Night, 4.39 am, and Peter Warlock’s beautiful carol, Bethlehem Down. Reminds me of the wintry landscape of Eynsford & Shoreham countryside. BBC Singers & BBC Concert Orchestra. Archery Music Promotions Visit Kent Kent Sinfonia BBC Concert Orchestra BBC Singers BBC Radio 3

A day devoted to the centenary of the #shippingforecast on BBC radio is an absolute treasure for 2025 BBC Radio 4 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

In an interplay of light and darkness, Joseph Wright of Derby conjures sublime pictures of discovery and learning ✨ Our upcoming exhibition, 'Wright of Derby: From the Shadows', is the first major exhibition dedicated to the British artist’s ‘candlelight’ paintings. We

Thank you for all welcoming Kit & Harriet into the #SilentWitness family 🥹

#thoughtoftheday Moving, inspiring, stirring the audience is everything! #music

Violinist.com Joshua Bell Absolutely. Or to sing in a choir. 3 years in the organ loft every single school day. Listening to Bach EVERY day, required to sing to the whole school EVERY day. And we had a FIRST and SECOND symphony orchestra! In a state school. 1960s north of England. How times have changed.