Our 2025-26 season in full. We bring you music by John Adams & James MacMillan; Brahms, Copland, Dvořák, Grieg, Nielsen & Stravinsky as well as lesser know pieces by Elfrida Andrée, Doreen Carwithen & Ruth Gipps

Lunch in the beautiful Italianate town of #Zamosc, #małopolska, #Poland With @guyraybould.bsky.social

Next concert on Monday 30 June at @cadoganhall.bsky.social Lyadov, Shostakovich and Rachmaninov's Paganini Variations with recent #BBC #YoungMusician finalist Firoze Madon 🎫 cadoganhall.com/whats-on/ken...

7️⃣ We're back at @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social on Monday 19 May to perform Bruckner's monumental Symphony No.7 – the work that finally won him acclaim ⚰️ Get a programme to find out how Richard Wagner's death influenced the piece, including a true symphonic innovation…

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! 🎭 
📸: Joanne Davidson (img 4)

🪐 With Nasa's stranded astronauts back on Earth, it's KSO's turn to launch into space, as we perform Holst's masterpiece at Fairfield Halls on Saturday

I’m clearly pleased with my bass.

The bass oboe is in the house ready for The Planets next week 🪐 Come and see it in the wild! 🎟️ www.fairfield.co.uk/events/kensi...

Oh David! #Florence #Firenze With @guyraybould.bsky.social

“I have a view, I have a view. “This is my son,” said the old man; “his name’s George. He has a view too.” “Ah,” said Miss Bartlett #Florence #Firenze. With @guyraybould.bsky.social

Next concert: Saturday 29 March at 6PM at Fairfield Halls - Music by Foulds, Tippett, Patrick Hawes, Vaughan Williams and culminating in Holst's perennially popular piece for large orchestra - The Planets 🎫 www.fairfield.co.uk/events/kensi...

Getting ready to play possibly the most beautiful tune in all Shostakovich tomorrow

31 January over the past decade with @castles73.bsky.social: 1. Bocas del Toro, Panama 🇵🇦 2015 2. Eating fat-bottomed ants in Barichara, Colombia 🇨🇴 2017 3. At Rihanna’s house, Barbados 🇧🇧 2019 4. Being in Paris as the UK left the EU 🇪🇺 😢 2020

Concert tomorrow night at @southbankcentre.bsky.social! Some tickets still available including just 4 left at £16 - grab yours now before it's too late!

Well Painter Hall at Greenwich, that is one well-placed mirror.

Yes well I think we already have enough clefs to deal with without this bit in tenor clef thanks

Julian Bliss will be our soloist in Magnus Lindberg's clarinet concerto next Saturday 25 January at Queen Elizabeth Hall @southbankcentre.bsky.social

List of the instruments in my house: - piano - viola - oboe - cor anglais - flute - piccolo - violin (don't know why, nobody plays it) - cello (display item) - bass recorder - tenor recorder - treble recorder - descant recorder - sopranino recorder - garklein recorder - 3 ocarinas - 2 kazoos

The Pitons #SaintLucia 🇱🇨

43% of countries in the world (85 countries)

Hello from Saint Lucia 🇱🇨, the 85th country I’ve visited (and 86th for @castles73.bsky.social)

Here’s my travel review of 2024. The furthest points I’ve been to in each direction this year #Latvia 🇱🇻 #Argentina 🇦🇷 #Paraguay 🇵🇾

this kind of obviously biased headline is so frustrating when MSM is fighting for credibility 1) New Year’s Honours list is nominated by public not by political leaders 2) Khan has won three elections so the average Londoner clearly doesn’t think he’s a failure

2024 travel highlights no 3. The road trips from #Riga to the castles and palaces of #Rundale #Cesis, #Turaida and #Sigulda With guyraybould.bsky.social

A walk up to the #Derbyshire Levels in #Glossop - the mist cleared. With @guyraybould.bsky.social

2024 travel highlights no 2. The final European capital we had not visited. The wonderful #Sarajevo, #Bosnia, the east meets west melting pot where WWI kicked off and where war raged in my living memory. With guyraybould.bsky.social

I’m in this concert with @kensingtonso.bsky.social at @southbankcentre.bsky.social on Saturday 25 January #Ravel #Prokofiev #MagnusLindberg Come along! 🎫 www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/kso...

And for our next trick we will be performing these 4 fantastic pieces at @southbankcentre.bsky.social on Saturday 25 January with clarinettist Michael Collins #Ravel #Prokofiev #MagnusLindberg 🎫 kso.org.uk/event/concer...

#NewReleases2024 #311 Magnus Lindberg: Viola Concerto, Absence & Serenades Lawrence Power (viola), Finnish RSO, Nicholas Collon Lindberg (b. 1958) has long been one of my favourite composers. Listen to this to hear why (btw Beethoven says hi) 💙💙💙

Concert last night. Hope everyone in our large and enthusiastic audience enjoyed it as much as we did!

More Gregory Cromwell please #WolfHall #TheMirrorandtheLight

I could get used to putting all the washing in this bag and having it returned washed and dried a day later. Sadly it will only be until our new washing machine arrives next week

2024 travel highlights no 1. Escaping a London winter to spend my birthday exploring #Asuncion, #Paraguay. Country no 84. With @guyraybould.bsky.social

Good morning from my mum’s sunny garden