Mahan Esfahani ماهان اصفهانی talks about our series so far performing the complete cycle of Bach’s keyboard concertos. Next week, we conclude the series with Bach’s D minor keyboard concerto – the “big enchilada”, as it is more fondly known. 📅 08.06 Saffron Hall 📅 12.06 Wigmore Hall

Rehearsals are fully underway for Max Richter’s Recomposed: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons, with Thomas Gould. We can’t wait to perform this Nevill Holt Festival tomorrow evening, accompanied by David Yarrow’s stunning photographs of the natural world across each season 🌅

After 7 shows in one very special location Nevill Holt Festival - Magic Flute & Vivaldi/Richter with Thomas Gould - it’s time for Britten Sinfonia to head to another. Two highly bespoke programmes Britten Pears Arts Snape Maltings incl Holst’s Savitri with the wonderful Pagrav Dance Company

A special Snape night: Holst father & daughter, VW oboe mastery from ⁦Nicholas Daniel OBE 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️⁩ and ⁦Britten Sinfonia⁩’s Savitri collab with ⁦Pagrav Dance Company⁩ ⁦Kathryn Rudge⁩ ⁦𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒚 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒐𝒓𝒚⁩ ⁦Ross Ramgobin⁩. Thanks for having us ⁦@rogerandout56⁩ !

Heat Ray: The Archimedes Project, recorded by Will Gregory Moog Ensemble on analogue synthesisers, is out now on vinyl, CD and digital via Mute. Come and hear Heat Ray as we tour with the ensemble to Barbican Centre, Anvil Arts & Saffron Hall this October. 🎧mute.ffm.to/wgme-heatray.

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Greater love hath no man than for this absolute banger Britten Sinfonia | Merton College Choir | Benjamin Nicholas

It’s a nice thought that RVW and Imogen Holst founded the Cheltenham Music Festival, but it’s not in any way true.

The summer sun lowers through the west window as the final few bars ring out, bringing two incredible days to a close. Truly, truly lucky to work with such exceptional musicians - Merton College Choir and Britten Sinfonia under director and friend Benjamin Nicholas

Behind the scenes with DELPHIAN, recording an album of church anthems for choir & orchestra with Merton College Choir Benjamin Nicholas 🌠 Featuring music by Wesley, Elgar, Stanford, Bairstow, Vaughan Williams, Ireland & Walton. Out 2025! 📸 Stunning photography Will @ foxbrush 📸

Norwich, we’re back💫 Next Saturday we return to Norwich Cathedral for a performance of the unparalleled Duruflé Requiem. Performing alongside Norwich Cathedral Choir, Ashley Grote & David Dunnett, in celebration of the Cathedral’s historic organ. 📅13 July cathedral.org.uk/events/organ-f…

Our organ festival starts today! Do join us for some of the brilliant events taking place in the week ahead Anna Lapwood BBC Singers BBC Radio 3 Britten Sinfonia

It was always my aim to do the Bach concertos not necessarily with period instruments but simply with those with whom I felt artistic sympathy. Click the link below for our recording campaign with Britten Sinfonia and some perks for your support! brittensinfonia.com/support-us/com…

Big thanks to Jeremy Pound for indulging me with this! A genre so unfashionable it gets a four page spread in BBC Music Magazine Do you agree with the Top Ten David Butcher & Philip Cashian ?

So proud of everyone Britten Sinfonia Raphael Clarkson 🇿🇦 #SheenaMasson Victor Craven for the first day of performances of ‘The Robot and the Bluebird’ West Road Concert Hall today 🤖 Big Penny Social tomorrow but what’s more, today we released the album! brittensinfonia.bandcamp.com/album/the-robo…

Excellent contribution by Michael Berkeley in Kings Speech debate on music and the arts more generally. There are reasons to be optimistic, so will the musicians of #WNO be rescued ‘even at this late hour’? Jane Hutt Arts Council England Chris Bryant hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2024-07-…

Hereford United ⁦Opera Holland Park⁩ tonight. Two tenors reared out west ⁦Hereford Cathedral School⁩ and shining in Acis and Galatea - ⁦𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒚 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒐𝒓𝒚⁩ and Ruairi Bowen.

Rehearsals today with Britten Sinfonia conducted by David Murphy for Shringar- The Adornment premieres July 27 at Wigmore Hall 🎟️ wigmore-hall.org.uk

Fantastic evening RoyalOperaHouse as Brian Cox voyaged through the universe with some captivating thoughts and insight, fused with wonderful classical music from Britten Sinfonia & Daniel Harding

We're coming towards the end of August - the month in which cathedrals across the country are full of the diversity of visiting choirs. We've put together this handy Spotters' Guide to the sort of choirs you might have happened upon while visiting a cathedral this summer.