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Your guide to what’s happening in British classical music 🎶

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Recording four world premieres this week with my friends in the @EnglishSymphony This is Portraits of Ned Kelly, a chamber concerto by Adrian Williams. It’s like a modern version of Till Eulenspiegel on acid.
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Madeleine Mitchell@MadeleineM_Vln2 Apr 2019
Concert Sat 6.4, 7.30 St.James W2 3UD with @addisonsingers & David Wordsworth: Tallis, Holst, RVW, celebrating @jamesmacmillan 60th birthday with the gem he wrote me 25 yrs ago Kiss on Wood +his Domine... (vln & choir) & @MichaelBerkele2 @RVWSociety @BMusicSociety @inpaddington
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#Elgar #VaughanWilliams #Finzi #Warlock and @GraceTrumpet are featured in this evocative concert programme, entitled ‘Best of Britain', performed by @lincemaestra's Corona Strings and featuring pianist Anita D’Attellis at @DorchesterAbbey Oxon on Saturday 2nd March. 🎶
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Join @deliussociety in London on 24th October for an illustrated talk with renowned film-maker @JohnBridcut to tie in with the release of his three composer-profiles on DVD: #Delius, #VaughanWilliams #Elgar. Book online: eventbrite.co.uk/e/if-love-b…
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Vaughan Williams@RVWtweets1 Oct 2018
Motet by Ivor Gurney published for the first time after 93 years! rhinegold.co.uk/choir_organ/…
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The Carice Singers@carice_singers6 Sep 2018
Our new recording of Parry’s Songs of Farewell and other choral music is out with the BBC Music Magazine this month!
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Commotio@Commotio_choir2 Sep 2018
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@BritMusicBlog looking forward to performing our concert of predominantly British choral music at Keble College 22/9/18. 'Word' by @PottFrancis (setting poetry by @RSThomaspoet) #Holst and @MReadFoundation . Details + tickets from commotio.org
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Vaughan Williams@RVWtweets27 Aug 2018
Good luck to @vwsingers, giving their inaugural concert today at Leith Hill Place! britishmusicblog.co.uk/vaugh…
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John Ireland Trust@JIrelandtrust22 Jul 2018
23 August at 5.00pm @Chethams International Summer School & Festival for Pianists: Elgar: In Smyrna, John Ireland: Three London Pieces, @PottFrancis Farewell to Hirta, Leighton: Five Studies performed by Margaret Fingerhut. pianosummerschool.com/Event=… @BMusicSociety @BritMusicBlog
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'Toward the Sun Rising – Ralph Vaughan Williams Remembered', a new book of recollections by Stephen Connock - now available to purchase from Albion Music: albionmusic.com/toward-the-s…
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Replying to @JohnBridcut
@JohnBridcut's composer-profiles - #Elgar #Delius #VaughanWilliams - now available on DVD, are "engrossing to watch" according to @FionaMaddocks in today's @ObsNewReview johnbridcut.com
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Sawyers’s song-cycle is a masterpiece: the quality of the settings, threaded by a unifying motif which appears in various forms, & the consequential sense of symphonic structure in the growing mood of loss, from numbing shock to anger at what has been lost open.spotify.com/track/2lLRk…
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The Elgar Festival@ElgarFestival1 Jun 2018
It's festival day! Join us at 1PM at the @ESMWorcester for "Elgar in Song" and 730 at @NTTheFirs for "Pomp and Poetry Too". Gala String Orchestra Concert Sat 2nd June at 730 in @WorcCathedral, String Quartet in @Guildhall_Worc Sat at 430 elgarfestival.org/whats-on/
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The Elgar Festival@ElgarFestival29 May 2018
Only a few days to go! Our first official Elgar Festival. Recitals, talks, choral concerts, string quartets with @ZoeBeyersViolin and an orchestral gala with @ndanielmusic @kennethwoods and @EnglishSymphon Visit elgarfestival.org/ for more details.
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Maria Marchant@MariaMarchantpf28 May 2018
Really looking forward to launching #BantockRediscovered @SOMMRecordings next week @TrinityLaban!!! All tracks are 1st Recordings! @BritMusicBlog @BMusicSociety @BBCRadio3
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This Saturday with @RhysConcessao - #Beethoven at @Barnabites #Ealing
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Londinium@Londinium_12 May 2018
Watery but lovely day with @colla_voce rehearsing RR Bennett's Sea Change, @howardskempton1's The Flight of Song, @gjackson3's A ship with unfurled sails and other sea-inspired repertoire! Concert Friday 25th May londinium-voices.org.uk/even…
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An unforgettable concert last night- @EnglishSymphon brought David Matthews' stunning 9th Symphony to life with incredible virtuosity and commitment, a wonderful Elgar Cello Concerto from @ShekuKM and Donald Fraser's orchestration of the Elgar Quintet a joy stat to finish.Thanks!
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Maria Marchant@MariaMarchantpf9 May 2018
I’m really looking forward to premiering @Sviceridor’s Piano Trio tonight with @BernardiMusic and Jonathan Few tonight! #Bob Boas Mansfield Street concert @BritMusicBlog @BMusicSociety #Stradivarius Piano Trio facebook.com/events/23815134…
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Vaughan Williams@RVWtweets5 May 2018
85-year-old symphony by English composer Robin Milford to receive world premiere! thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/1…
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