Another genuinely thrilling week for the Stagecast teams, even if we’d just as happily have the dates spread out a little more!

We had the privilege of filming Sir Andrew Davis conduct Elgar’s Dream of Gerontius with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra during the 2022 Edinburgh International Festival. This was the final image from that film. “Softly and gently, dearly-ransomed soul, In my most loving arms I now enfold thee…” Go well, Sir Andrew.

This ❤️ #savethearts Jeanette Winterson

Palanga-bound! 🇱🇹 We’re all packed and off to the Lithuanian seaside for 4 days of filming top brass… live streaming the European Brass Band Championships for our friends at World of Brass, exclusively on wobplay.com 🎺 4barsrest.com

I'm really excited to be playing Brahms 1 next season with one of my favourite orchestras: CBSO I'm happy to be filmed on phones by the audience except for the following bars when I really need to concentrate and could be distracted:

So I’ve been busy the last three weeks, working towards this. ⬇️ Without an emergency funding package from GOV.UK & Welsh Government, Welsh National Opera will become part-time. My public statement is available below, along with 176 signatures. 🧵1/5 #SaveWNO thetimes.co.uk/article/40c462…

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Agree with this from George Monbiot "Who should hold the next prime minister to account? Our best hope lies with the Green party" … and how I wish just a few more of those pledges were evident in The Labour Party's proposals! theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

OMG 😱 Farage’s party came second in 120 constituencies They got 12.6% of the votes - 3rd highest vote share They got 2 MPs While the winning party only got 36.9% Oh no, wait a sec - that was UKIP in 2015! #GeneralElection2024 1/5

Lovely unscripted moment this morning in the Welsh Parliament as a brilliant young choir from Ysgol Treganna in Cardiff - singing Safwn yn y Bwlch in rehearsal - bump into the Prime Minister (watch their reaction at the end 🎶)

Oh wow – what immense range of colour, delicacy, fun and grandeur from Yunchan Lim playing Beethoven’s Emperor concerto at #bbcproms on @bbcradio3 just now. Musical equivalent of the gymnastics artistry on show in Paris earlier. He’s the real deal. (Shame it’s not on TV too!)

Late bus home after a staggering evening of American music from John Wilson and Sinfonia of London at BBC Proms. Calling them an all-star supergroup is entirely justified, but it takes a special alchemy to mine those depths in John Adams’s Harmonielehre. Watch again on BBC iPlayer

Prom 21: John Wilson/Sinfonia of London review – sharp-tailored fanfare leads a million-dollar parade of US music theguardian.com/music/article/…

Sound, lighting, direction, pacing, production, all ABYSMAL. Hate to say it but after an uplifting 2 weeks of #OlympicGames  I’ve never seen such a mess of a “global TV event” #ClosingCeremony

A pleasure to take my first headmistress for lunch yesterday! I was a slightly strange 5-year-old when we met, but Miss Lamb encouraged my early enthusiasms and had a huge influence in just a couple of years. Wendy’s been a family friend ever since, so it was lovely to catch up.

Looking forward to hearing Britten’s War Requiem with ⁦London Symphony Orchestra⁩ at ⁦BBC Proms⁩ – great to see if packed to the rafters too.

Great that Labour are recognising the demand for a 4 day week, but what they're offering here is just compressed hours. A real 4 day week has been shown to reduce stress and burnout and boost productivity. Welcome but Labour could be bolder on this!

This was an amazing concert last night – and a stellar effort by the whole team at Stagecast in producing and delivering the live TV broadcast to over 80 countries for London Symphony Orchestra on Mezzo! 🪐

Bravo to the whole team including Phil Glenny, Melissa Probert and Thomas Aston for their work on these beautiful performance films for #BBCTenPieces – and to our partners on the project, including the brilliant Urbancroft Films, BBC Concert Orchestra , BBC Singers & BBC Philharmonic Orchestra