How many lutes do you need to recreate a party in Venice in 1514? Three, it turns out! And viols, recorders, a clavicymbalum, and some lovely self-accompanied singing. Just once concert left for 2025 - tickets via our website! #rotherhithe #earlymusic

FEATURE | Vivanco Resurrected: The pleasure of finding 'new' old music Musical Director of The Renaissance Singers David Allinson and Producer Stephen Rice discuss the first recording of Sebastian de Vivanco's ‘lost’ Requiem on Toccata Read now 🔗 https://go.continuoconnect.com/vivanco-resurrected

We're delighted that Georgia Mann chose the Magnificat for her #Radio3 Essential Classics Album of the Week segment yesterday. It's "holy/holey" in all senses (Laurie had to reconstruct a lot of missing notes), and it was lovely to hear so much chant! Can't wait to hear what she will feature today.

Hear how English composers responded to the doctrinal turmoil of the 16th century in our next concert on 18 October, conducted by @davidallinson.bsky.social and illuminated in a pre-performance talk by Dr Kerry McCarthy. Tickets from £13, free for under 21s. 🎟️ www.renaissancesingers.com/concerts

What better way to spend an autumnal Saturday? 🤩🙌

It's Release Day! Volume 2 of our Morales series is out today. <Put amusing Morales-related witticism here> Buying it from Amazon, Presto Classical, or Hyperion Records will help our UK Chart Position. (Yes, really!) We'd be awfully grateful.

Women of London, and a countrywoman (with chicken), their costumes carefully recorded in 1574 by Lucas de Heere from Gent. His day is today.

When @continuoconnect.bsky.social met Heidi Fardell 🪈 Read more about Heidi and her crusade to raise the profile of this wonderful instrument 👉 go.continuoconnect.com/HeidiFardell...

12 July!! ☀️☀️ Continuo Foundation is taking a big step by co-presenting a full afternoon of early music, with concerts from Linarol Consort, Bellot Ensemble, and a fascinating talk by Sir Nicholas Kenyon CBE. It's going to be a wonderful day. 🔗 go.continuoconnect.com/ofa-early-mu...

Calling all emerging early music ensembles! Brighton Early Music Festival is accepting applications to their latest opportunity until 23 May 👀

My book reconstructing music for the 1613 Palatine wedding masques was published recently. OUP has made the Introduction to Part 1 available, where you can read about the process. Free to read till June 13. Enjoy! academic.oup.com/book/59294/c...

We are excited to be part of BBC Proms 2025, performing A Mass for Life by Delius, conducted by Mark Elder on Monday 18th August. With 86 concerts featuring more than 3,000 musicians, join us for eight weeks of world-class music-making with some of the world’s finest musicians. www.bbc.co.uk/proms

Finding the Lost Murals of the Bardfield Artists, a talk by Alan Powers and part of our annual Fry Lecture Series, is on Friday 25 April at 7.30pm in the Quaker Meeting House, Saffron Walden CB10 1AA. Tickets £6 on the door or on line. See you there!

Be sure to join us for Tenebrae — a service of music, silence, drama & darkness as we reflect on the mystery of the cross. Spy Wednesday, 16 April, at 8pm. At @stbenetscam.bsky.social

Date for your diary, and booking is open already for a super singing day exploring Handel’s glorious oratorio. 🎶It seemed the right thing to revisit this masterpiece in our City of Culture year! @visitbradford.bsky.social @bradford2025.co.uk @thomasleech.com @bradfordmusicscene.bsky.social

A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.

Booking is now open for our final concert of the season at St Mary’s Church BSE on 7 June, when we will perform one of the most well-known and best-loved choral works of the repertory: Mozart’s Requiem. (1/4)

Timeless Musica - Handel : Lascia ch'io pianga mia cruda sorte - Philippe Jaroussky (Mexic... youtu.be/h9UA_LUEpgk?... via @YouTube #earlymusicnewsorg

I'm so much looking forward to this! It's selling very well, but there are still a few stalls seats available, and some space in the gallery. 10% off the face value if with the code KINGSTON10! Book here: cadoganhall.com/whats-on/kin...

Excited to welcome tenor Sandeep Gurrapadi to Carmina Burana and This Love Between Us! An internationally acclaimed artist with a passion for contemporary and classical music. Live at St George’s Hall, Bradford on 29 March! 🎶🌏🎼 🎟️ Bradford Theatres @visitbradford.bsky.social @bradford2025.co.uk

Don't miss Dvořák's vibrant Slavonic Dance No 8; Wagner's masterful Die Meistersinger Prelude, Borodin's popular Polovtsian Dances, and Dvořák's outstanding Symphony No 7 🎶🎻🎺📯🥁 🗓 Sat 22 March 2025 📍 The Apex, #burystedmunds 🎟 bit.ly/SuffolkSinfo... ☎️ Box Office 01284 758000 🔗 suffolksinfonia.co.uk

Experience the powerful voice of mezzo-soprano Shivani Rattan in This Love Between Us: Prayers for Unity at St George's Hall on 29 March. From Papagena to Ellie Goulding, she's a musical force to be reckoned with. Don’t miss out! 🎟️ Search ‘Carmina’ on Bradford Theatres website. @bradford2025.co.uk

Hey, pause that doomscroll, breathe, and then gift yourself these 170 seconds of vibrant, effervescent Corelli. This transcription for viola da gamba by Teodoro Baù keeps that violin line sparkle and adds velvety warmth that you didn’t know ya needed. One of my favs. #ClassicalMusic

Don't miss sitarist Kirtan Virdee at St George's Hall on 29 March! Trained by Dharambir Singh, blending tradition with innovation. Experience the mesmerising sound of the sitar in Reena Esmail's 'This Love Between Us'. Tickets available at Bradford Theatres, search ‘Carmina’ for this double-header!

🎶 Meet the Maestro @thomasleech.com 
Leading the first half on 29 March, he's an exceptional choral director, inspiring singers as our MD since 2008 & Director of the @dolmusic.bsky.social Schools Singing Programme. Join us @ St George’s Hall for Esmail & Orff! 🎟 Bradford Theatre website.

"My Days: Orlando Gibbons & Nico Muhly" by @fretwork.bsky.social et al. will be released by Signum Classics on May 23rd, 2025 #Gibbons400

IZnto the serious zone now for concert prep... but we're ready with good supplies of vocal elbow grease for the final polishing. Come along to enjoy this gripping work by Mendelssohn. Glorious music and a warm welcome awaits. Please help us spread the word - it is lovely singing to a full audience.

Join us for a milestone in our choir’s history as we sing Bach’s third passion for the very first time. Tickets on sale now! Come and be part of what will be a wonderful experience: 📆 29 March 2025 ⏰ 19:30 📍 The Apex 🎟️ shorturl.at/0UvOg

Meet the Artist: Dominican Republic violinist Aisha Syed Castro interviewed by Frances Wilson ahead of her performance at @wigmore-hall.org.uk on 15 March! 🖌️https://tinyurl.com/y5k4nrc2 🎶 🎫 www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...

Not long now until 29 March - our date with Elijah! We're delighted to be accompanied by Serafine Sinfonia, established by Manvinder Rattan in 2015 - talented young musicians coming together to share a passion for high quality music making. Tickets via www.ticketsource.co.uk/booking/venu...

No better way to spend a spring Saturday afternoon! Do take cake 🍰 if you’re attending!

A lovely programme of penitential choral works from several centuries next Saturday in #Greenwich - Howells' profound and personal Requiem is the centrepiece. Join us in Hawksmoor's beautiful St Alfege church in central Greenwich: 730pm on Sat 8 March Tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk/tts/thomas-t...

If there is no choir near you, let the choir come to you! Online choral singing lets you experience high-quality music-making from anywhere in the world - all you need is an internet connection. See for yourself - drop into our free open rehearsals next week! 🎶 choiroftheearth.com/latest-news/...

Some news to share: 9 Church Walk, the modernist Aldeburgh home of composer Imogen Holst, has been given Grade II listed status by English Heritage. It's a lovely little house, designed to fit Imogen like a glove, and it's great that it's been recognised: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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We suffer April Fools very gladly: all are extremely welcome - leave those spaghetti trees in the corner & just enjoy a wonderful sing. Have a look at our website and contact our Membership Sec on [email protected] We would love to give you a very warm welcome.

💻 Find out more about our work, including our funding opportunities, via our website.

#Earlymusic brings us together, since exploring long forgotten or ignored repertoire requires communities of knowledge and of specialized practice. The late soprano Deborah Roberts took this ideal to the highest level, connecting amateurs and professionals on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Ok Bluesky: your mission is to crack the code by lunch time

A month until our next concert...full of drama and absolutely stonkingly good music. Do come & enjoy a really super evening. Ticket info on our website and attached. #elijah #mendelssohn @petroc.bsky.social @makingmusicuk.bsky.social #concert #choir

I'm trying so hard not to be that weird person on the train, humming to themselves. "Regnum mundi" is one of my favourite chant tunes, but the melodic decorations here are just exquisite. Sung as a woman takes her final steps to becoming a professed nun, somewhere in Padua in 1571. #nuntastic

📢NEW MANY-HEADED MONSTER SERIES📢 Today I introduce 'Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England', a series that celebrates the relaunch of the brilliant 'British Printed Images to 1700' database and showcases historians' use of printed images. 🗃️ #Skystorians manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...

Since our inaugural Patronal Festival Grants 2025 applications closed on 2 February, we have had further funding from generous donors enabling us to award £32,000 in grants to dozens of churches across the country. 1/4

It's time to announce the soloists for our performance of the St Matthew Passion on 5th April. Tickets available at www.minack.com/three-spires... 🧵1/7

Herefordians! Listen up!

We’ve got a few spaces left for our *very affordable* improvised singing workshop next week with Tim Braithwaite - if you sing in a choir or play early instruments, do let your fellow musicians know! @renaissancesingers.bsky.social @swearlymusic.bsky.social www.musicaantica.org.uk/improvised-p...

The first Exeter Cathedral, built during the Norman period on the site of an earlier Saxon Minster, was rebuilt in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Although damaged during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, it was spared some of the excesses of destruction experienced elsewhere.

Join @musicaantica.bsky.social for an exploration of realms of unconsciousness through testimonies & 17thC music in the UK's oldest surviving hospital chapel. A collaboration with Seb Harcombe & Welkin Theatre. 📅 Fri, 21st Feb, 7.30pm 📍Guy's Hospital Chapel 🎟️ www.continuoconnect.com/events/music...