A stonking @threechoirs.bsky.social concert from the 1880s

FUNDRAISER | On 31 August, Allen Prior, Gloucester City Chair will be undertaking a 20 mile walk from Berkeley to Gloucester Cathedral in memory of Peter Hillier. 👣 Read more, and support Allen's walk: 3choirs.org/gloucester-2...

Just finishing off the first draft of my attempt to chart the emergence and early days of @gloucestercathedral.org.uk choir. Few facts, lot of (intelligent) speculation I'm afraid!

The number of #premieres that have featured @threechoirs.bsky.social since the start of the Festival in the early 18th century now numbers 619

In case you missed it, we've released our Gloucester 2026 preview! Find out what's in store in next year's programme! 👉 3choirs.org/gloucester-2...

Three vintage @threechoirs.bsky.social postcards

"Vaughan Williams, the quintessential British composer." A great introduction to the life and works of Ralph Vaughan Williams, compiled by the London Symphony Orchestra. Find it here: www.lso.co.uk/what-you-sho...

Just about as proud of getting this reference into Jeremy Pound's excellent article on castrati in July's BBC Music Magazine as anything I've ever done for @threechoirs.bsky.social

Orchestral Works: Grace Williams — John Andrews, BBC Philharmonic “thrilling and… the word that keeps coming to mind is meaty! Anyway, sink your teeth into Williams’s fearless wind writing and clear affection for celesta.”

We love the idea of RVW's favourite pencils being "the things that turn into music" ✏️

This Friday at 12.15, we're going to be on BBC's Bargain Hunt! Join Caroline Hawley as she visits Hereford Cathedral as it prepares for this year's Three Choirs Festival. 🎼 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

also helps the DoM realise that you *know* you made a stupid mistake...

The principal aims of the Vaughan Williams Foundation are to honour RVW’s desire to support his fellow composers and to make his own work widely accessible to the general public. VWF general funding applications open today! 💻 Details via our website - link in bio

@tracyborman.bsky.social Am currently researching the Royal Progress of 1535 from the angle of their visit Gloucester Abbey. Would there have been any singers and/or musicians in the party?

📣 On sale now: Three Choirs Festival 2025! 🎶🎉 We return to our residency at the Three Choirs Festival @threechoirs.bsky.social, taking place this year in the glorious settings of Hereford. Tickets are on sale now. Find out more and book tickets: philharmonia.co.uk/seasons/thre...

Great to hear again @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social enthusiasm for all things #gloucester #history this morning at the fabulous Gloucester History Festival

Just arrived via ILL. Hoping to learn more of the context of what was going on @gloucestercathedral.org.uk just before the Dissolution

#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...

*Available to pre-order!* "Someone Else's Music: Opera and the British" traces attitudes towards opera, 1920-2020. It reveals a forgotten history of popular opera-going, which challenges the elitism stereotype. It also examines when and why that stereotype arose. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Handel's 'Alexander's Feast' which is featuring in this year's @threechoirs.bsky.social made its first Festival appearance in 1739 (Gloucester), just three years after it had been composed.

A thread to celebrate Arnold Bax through recordings of his works. I am re-listening to all 61 hours and 16 minutes of Bax in my collection and will set out my thoughts here, in a series of themed threads.

Booking is now open for Hereford 2025! Experience powerful music, timeless venues and inspiring events at this year's Three Choirs Festival! 🔥🎶 🎟 3choirs.org/whats-on

Enjoy Vaughan Williams’ ‘Let Beauty Awake’ performed by newly formed musical collaboration Duo Atlantis - mezzo-soprano Rachel Payne and pianist Jack Tyndale-Biscoe. Watch and listen here 👇

The 1895 @threechoirs.bsky.social line up ...

The Vaughan Williams Foundation was established in 2022, 150 years after the birth of the celebrated composer Ralph Vaughan Williams. It brings together the two trusts founded by Ralph and his wife Ursula and is funded by the royalties earned from RVW’s music.

The 1961 @threechoirs.bsky.social line up the year the great Janet Baker made her Festival debut

Herbert von Karajan was born on this day in 1908. Richard Bratby explores his vast Deutsche Grammophon legacy: bachtrack.com/feature-herb...

It was so good to explore five new works at Hereford Cathedral Voluntary Choir's composition competition on Saturday. Warmest thanks to all who supported the event, and many congratulations to Judith Ward, whose winning introit will be sung at this summer's Three Choirs Festival in Hereford

On the 340th anniversary of Bach's birth, another chance to read our interview with Víkingur Ólafsson on the Goldberg Variations: ✍️ Jessican Duchen bachtrack.com/interview-vi...

From Lee Williams', @gloucestercathedral.org.uk organist, annotated copy of the 1884 @threechoirs.bsky.social programme highlighting the 3 members of the Elgar family in the orchestra

To all the choir mums, who do the tireless work unseen to bring choristers to life; to the ones who used to be choir mums; the ones about to be choir mums;

Last weekend to apply for our Box Office and Sales Officer role! More information 👇

Lovely interview with Dr Samatha Ege here about her new disc (Maestra), and our forthcoming Avril Coleridge-Taylor release.

Today is the Feast of the Annunciation, commemorating the moment the angel Gabriel visited the Virgin Mary and announced that she would become the mother of Jesus. Here is the story, told through the stained glass of the Lady Chapel.

Our programme for Hereford 2025 is out NOW! Explore what's in store in this year's festival, and get ready for a week of powerful music! 🔥🎶 🎟 General Booking opens 14 April 👉 3choirs.org/whats-on #Hereford2025 #ThreeChoirs

A judge once ruled that I was “the antithesis of Paddington Bear”.

@cotswoldlife.bsky.social Fabulous article by Tracy Spiers on @gloucestercathedral.org.uk music in your latest issue. Many thanks!

Fun Fact Friday re British women composers: 6 women won the Charles Lucas medal for Composition from the Royal Academy of Music, 1924-32: Madeleine Windsor 1924 Guirne Creith 1925 Ethel M. Winfield 1928 Babara M. Bryer 1930 Marjorie Corker 1931 Monica Myatt 1932

Love this Edwardian postcard of St Bartholomew's at the top of Chosen Hill. How Gurney and @herberthowells.bsky.social would have seen it ...

Really enjoying currently writing a piece on Samuel Coleridge Taylor for this year's @threechoirs.bsky.social programme.

Brewer looking purposeful at the 1910 @threechoirs.bsky.social with @herberthowells.bsky.social and Ivor Gurney in his wake ...

An opportunity to join a fabulous team ...

Just a week left to submit your entries for this choral composition competition! More information below! 👇

🎶 Millicent B James performs with the CBSO at Symphony Hall this Sunday! 🎶 We spoke to Millicent ahead of the concert: "It's a dream come true to be performing with the CBSO, CBSO Youth Chorus and CBSO Children's Chorus again! I'm very excited for this weekend." Tickets: bmusic.co.uk/events/cbso-...

Shout out to violinist Sofia Yatsyuk for her article on #EthelSmyth and #RebeccaClarke in The Strad magazine AND the release of her debut album! www.thestrad.com/playing-hub/...

Ahead of today's BBC Radio 3 broadcast of Der Wald, here's a good interview from 2023 with @jkaconductor.bsky.social -- on Smyth, scores, and capturing "that fizz of excitement": www.gramophone.co.uk/features/art...

I'm thrilled to share a full recording of our world premiere of Frances-Hoad’s cello suite, incl. Bach, spoken-word and visuals. Dir. by Tom Morris 🎬 feat. the fabulous @natalieclein @wigmore-hall.org.uk 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3I1... @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social @torchoxford.bsky.social

@drkkennedy.bsky.social Really enjoying rereading your fabulous biography of #ivorgurney Thank you again for it!

Just two weeks to go until we announce the full programme for Hereford 2025! Who's excited? 🙋‍ #threechoirs #hereford2025

This didn’t seem terribly controversial when I wrote it last year; anyway here’s a small contribution to IWD and some growing debates: www.notesfromthepodium.co.uk?p=1832