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Saturday Morning - Superstar tenor Allan Clayton and cellist Adrian Brendel - BBC Sounds Tom Service with guests, stories and the perfect classical soundtrack for the weekend!

"I will chuck myself physically and psychologically at a role..."

Listen back to Allan Clayton on BBC Radio 3's Saturday Morning with Tom Service discussing his album with @auroraorchestra.bsky.social out on Signum Classics on 16 January 🎶

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Manchester Camerata welcomes back Ethan Loch today for an afternoon concert featuring his composition Sounds of the Sea, Mozart's Quintet for Piano and Winds, as well as a unique improvisation on a theme of Mozart 👏👏

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s exciting November programme! 🎶

Featuring Jess Gillam, David Hill, Sian Edwards, Ning Feng and the BSO’s Chief Conductor Mark Wigglesworth.

A month full of world-class performances, powerful music, and unforgettable moments — you won’t want to miss it! ✨

🎵 Out now! 🎵

Signum Classics has released the first complete recording of songs by Rebecca Clarke, featuring 22 world premieres! With Kitty Whately, Nicholas Phan and Anna Tilbrook.

Listen now wherever you get your music!

Aga Khan Music Awards have announced their 2025 winners! 👏 Congratulations to all of the remarkable artists.

The winners will be honoured at the Aga Khan Awards Night at London's Southbank Centre as part of a series of events celebrating music from the Great East. See you there, 20-23 November 🤩

An incredible month ahead for @bournemouthso.bsky.social! 👏

Tonight, Johannes Moser joins the orchestra to perform Dvořák’s iconic Cello Concerto. Later this month, Clare Hammond will join the orchestra for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21, led by Assistant Conductor Enyi Okpara.

Legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman gracing this months BBC Music Magazine cover 🤩

Grab yourself a copy to read his interview with Charlotte Smith where he reflects on his incredible career, marking his 80th birthday this year!

💿 Itzhak Perlman: The Complete Warner Classics Edition is out now

Manchester Camerata start their world premiere run of Nick Martin's new violin concerto tonight! 👏

Joined by soloist Tamsin Waley-Cohen, the piece is a love letter to the sculptor Dame Barbara Hepworth, celebrating her 50th anniversary year ♥️

Joyce DiDonato's new celebrated Erato recording of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas is receiving rave reviews ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Recorded with Maxim Emelyanychev and Il Pomo d'Oro, it features star soloists including Michael Spyres and Fatma Said 👏

📸 2025 Parlophone Record Ltd

Outstanding reviews for Edinburgh International Festival’s Opening Concert with the Monteverdi Choir!

The Monteverdi Choir returned with Baroque masterpieces plus a surprise appearance at the First Night at The Hub 👏

Stream yesterday’s performance on STAGE+ on 8 August at 7 PM.

📸 Andrew Perry

Fantastic to see @bournemouthso.bsky.social's Young Associates scheme included in this!

You can read about it here👇
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🤩🤩 Listen to the new album now on @warnerclassics.bsky.social!

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Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Suzuki, St-Martin-in-the-Fields review – the perfect temperature for Bach In the Saxony of 1725 – still in the grip of Europe’s “Little Ice Age” – Bach and his musicians would seldom have had to deal with the sort of midsummer sauna that enveloped Trafalgar Square last nigh...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "A dream cantata date for Japanese maestro and local supergroup" @theartsdesk.bsky.social theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

25/26 Season - Manchester Camerata You’ll find us performing in an art gallery in Wakefield, on the pitch at the National Football Museum, in grand…

Introducing... Manchester Camerata's 2025/26 season! manchestercamerata.co.uk/performance/...

Five stars and choral choice of the month for Choir of St John's Cambridge latest album, Lament & Liberation from BBC Music Magazine ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ www.classical-music.com/apple-news-r...

💐 It's all happening for Louise Alder 💐 The leading soprano spoke to Tom Service on BBC Radio 3 about her exciting summer ahead, from Countess Almaviva at Glyndebourne to the Last Night of the Proms and her highly anticipated Metropolitan Opera debut. Toi toi toi! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Interviewed the delightful Masaaki Suzuki for The Tablet ahead of his debut with the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra later this month:

The 2025/26 edition of Tsinandali Festival is coming this September with 21 concerts featuring violinist Daniel Lozakovich, cellist Pablo Ferrandez, conductor Gianandrea Noseda, and more ✨🎶

🎟️ Learn more and get your early bird tickets now on : tsinandalifestival.ge/what-is-on/

Homepage Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra is cultural beacon across the South West of England and gives concerts in Poole, Exeter, Portsmouth and Bristol

@bournemouthso.bsky.social has unveiled its 2025/26 season 🎶

Led by Chief Conductor Mark Wigglesworth, the season features stars including Chloé Van Soeterstède, Enyi Okpara, Dani Howard, Jess Gillam, Roderick Williams and more! Explore the full lineup now at bsolive.com/whats-on/ ✨

First Person: St John's College choral conductor Christopher Gray on recording 'Lament & Liberation' When I arrived at St John’s College, Cambridge, in April 2023, it was a daunting prospect to be taking over the reins of a choir with such a distinguished recording heritage: there have been more than...

#FirstPerson - @stjohnscollege.bsky.social College choral conductor #ChristopherGray on recording 'Lament & Liberation', a showcase for contemporary choral works appropriate to this time www.theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

New podcast out with horn player Martin Owen reflecting on the first of two Manchester Camerata Mozart concerts, plus a career spanning 30 years+. lnk.to/LMGzz2

Lise Davidsen’s first-ever full-length opera recording of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman is marking a powerful new chapter in her discography 💿​

​🎧 Available now on CD, digital download, and streaming.

“I’m pleased to report that this first recording with Jonathan Sells is brilliant.” – Gramophone​

​The Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras returns with their first post-pandemic album on their Soli Deo Gloria label 🎶​

​🎧 Listen now on all major platforms.

Congrats to the Festen team on winning Best New Opera Production at the Olivier Awards 🎉 Natalya Romaniw accepted with composer Mark-Anthony Turnage & librettist Lee Hall, wearing Jenny Packham 💙

Catch her this May at the Royal Opera as Sieglinde in Die Walküre! 🎭

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💃It’s showtime!💃

Don't miss these exciting concerts this month from Manchester Camerata🎵

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🎻The stage is set!🎻

Check out what @bournemouthso.bsky.social has coming up in April🎵

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DiDonato/Emelyanychev review – ingenious artistry brings Schubert’s bleak Winterreise to life Joyce DiDonato’s theatrical skills enabled her to feminise the cycle in a particularly original way, before Strauss’s Morgen! gave us all hope

"Joyce DiDonato’s theatrical skills enabled her to feminise the cycle in a particularly original way...ingenious"

@theguardian.com on @joycedidonato.bsky.social's performance of Schubert's Winterreise @wigmore-hall.org.uk🎼

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Sir James MacMillan with the Minnesota Orchestra - Minnesota Orchestra Composer-conductor James MacMillan’s religious faith is at the core of his music. In his Minnesota Orchestra conducting debut, you’ll hear two powerful examples. He’ll also conduct one of the most pop...

🎻The stage is set!🎻

Sir James MacMillan makes his conducting debut with the @minnesotaorchestra.org tonight👇
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Berliner Barock Solisten/Kapelis – Bach: Complete Keyboard Concertos | Barbican The Berliner Barock Solisten and pianist Alexandros Kapelis come together for Bach’s six concertos for solo keyboard and orchestra: a tour-de-force not seen on the concert stage in recent memory.

💃 It’s showtime! 💃

Tonight Alexandros Kapelis performs Bach's complete keyboard concertos with the Berliner Barock Solisten of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra at the Barbican🎹

www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

Watch a sneak peek below👇
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Australian Chamber Orchestra/Richard Tognetti | Barbican 'Is there a better chamber orchestra in the world?' (The Guardian). Australia's premiere ensemble performs works by JS Bach, Sofia Gubaidalina and Shostakovich.

🎵 It’s here! 🎵

Tonight the Australian Chamber Orchestra performs music by Bach, Gubaidulina and Shostakovich at the Barbican🎶

www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...