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After Snøhetta's Oslo Opera House, their Royal Diriyah Opera House. dezeen.com/2023/12/15/sno… #architecture #operahouse #snøhetta

Any church service pivots on some sense of community and atmosphere.

This week's Choral Evensong had zero. Sterile, arid and flat-packed (prerecorded, who knows when) with no hint of a congregation. A new low...or is it just me? bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0… #choralevensong #radio3

If you're looking for a gift for anyone interested in music, culture, society, the Nordics - or all four - some very clever people have written some very nice things about my book.

That, I promise, will be my only communique on the subject.

yalebooks.co.uk/book/978030025… Yale University Press London📚Celebrates 50 Years

Bo Holten's 'Messiah for 12 soloists' - Musica Ficta and the Copenhagen Phil. Plusses and minuses...and my last Radiohuset concert as a Frederiksberger. 😥

The Netherlands looks set to get a PM who wants to end public funding for arts and culture.

That would have huge implications for classical musicians even in Britain. Could it happen? December's Long View for Classical Music classical-music.uk/opinion/articl… #GeertWilders #artsfunding

For our UK friends: Presto Music is having a Dacapo sale with 20 % off 🎶

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The Beethoven and Strauss are fine...but skip to 1'36'30 for Schreker's Prelude to a Drama with the humongous Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Giedrė Šlekytė. Cor blimey guvnor. areena.yle.fi/1-66089906

Dear oh dear. One of our biggest, most distinguished cathedrals. youtube.com/watch?v=Mrva_e…

Støtte den bedste musikjournalistik - i ord og billeder - og magasindesign.

Køb et abonnement (til dig eller en ven) på Klassisk, og du bliver ikke skuffet. klassisk.org/abonnement/ #julegaver #dkkultur #journalistik #danskjournalistik #danskmusik

Discovery of the day. Jane Parker Smith playing Widor like her life depended on it. Such an exciting musician.
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Det var et privilegium og en fornøjelse, at skrive om Det Kongelige Kapel i dets 575. år.

Nu på Det Kongelige Teater's hjemmeside: kglteater.dk/xtra/artikler/…

#detkongeligekapel #verdensældsteorkester #opera #kglteater

“England’s first composer of true historical and international significance was born in the right place at the right time”

Andrew Mellor writes about Henry Purcell ahead of ‘Dido’s Ghost’ tomorrow and ‘Dido and Aeneas’ on 2 Dec.

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It's here! Elsewhere, Elsewhen is released today. Available on all major streaming platforms and from bandcamp nordicviola.wordpress.com Birnam CD Many thanks to The National Lottery through Creative Scotland and Vaughan Williams Foundation for supporting our work. open.spotify.com/album/1GBM99ac…

If you have one minute to spare, watch this cheerful video about how my daughter Emily has learnt to read and write braille since losing all her sight two years ago ⁦RNIB⁩ ⁦RSBC⁩ ⁦Vision Norfolk⁩ ⁦GOSHCharity⁩ ⁦ youtube.com/watch?v=Ezt92K…

Det var en lang, sjov og trættende samtale...men vi har endelig valgt Danmarks 5 bedste albums i 2023.

Something for everyone...men du skal bare høre HC Lumbye på historiske instrumenter! 😲🤪 🔥dr.dk/om-dr/nyheder/…

'Folk won’t stop worrying about what to wear for opera, until we all stop talking about it'

Read the latest Prompter column from Andrew Mellor 👇

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'A quarter of adults would be more likely to attend a classical music event if they didn’t have to dress up.'

That means three quarters either want to dress up, don’t mind dressing up, don’t feel they have to dress up or COULDN'T GIVE A MONKEYS CHUFF.