#Bach alert: 2 ‘new’ works by #JSBach being announced by Bach Archiv Leipzig tomorrow - reportedly important

Just received - 50 great choices from #TomService out soon @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social

#Makropulos #TheRailwayChildren #DeadManWalkibg observer.co.uk/music/classi...

Hi Fiona, I commission writers to work on features (mainly artist interviews) for the Southbank centre's website. I've a healthy list of freelancers across most art forms, but I'm short on writers who have an interest/focus on classical music if you know of anyone looking for opportunities.

observer.co.uk/news/columni... Well worth reading this

Just arrived - our 6 Nov . congratulations to Hannah French

Delighted to receive my contributor’s copy of this new book, published by @universitypress.cambridge.org.

Doing an actual National Gallery lunchtime concert with the wonderful Lara Melda! 10 October, anniversary of Myra Hess’s first concert there in 1939. www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/myra-...

Everybody at Wigmore Hall is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Amelia Freedman. She was associated with the Hall for more than 60 years, and was the inspirational Artistic Director of the Nash Ensemble. We salute her legacy, and send sympathy to all who mourn her loss.

observer.co.uk/music/classi... Fiona Maddocks | The Observer Buxton double bill and an unforgettable LSO Salome

observer.co.uk/music/classi... Mark Simpson: ‘When I perform I’m like a shaman’. On his new piece ZEBRA and other things

So grateful to @timadamswrites.bsky.social and the brilliant team @theobserveruk.bsky.social for giving such prominence to my piece on libraries in Trump’s America this weekend. Will never lose the thrill of seeing my work in print - especially with Lisa Sheehan’s amazing front cover art!

Important and moving - as well as disturbing observer.co.uk/news/interna...

Now in orange… @thomasleurs.bsky.social

Colin Matthews‘s and William Boyd‘s first opera observer.co.uk/music/classi...

We were sorry to hear that legendary pianist Alfred Brendel has passed away at the age of 94. Alfred Brendel made his Wigmore Hall debut in 1958, and gave many performances at the Hall, including programmes of Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert and more. Our thoughts are with all who knew him.

Proof copy just received. Out August Congratulations @elizabethalker.bsky.social

observer.co.uk/music/classi... Deja vu in a Peckham car park: This year’s Bold Tendencies

»The shape of things to come.« Thank you for visiting the @elbphilharmonie.de last week, @fionahmaddocks.bsky.social! Delighted with this text about our concert hall and the Hamburg International Music Festival in today’s issue of @theobserveruk.bsky.social.

observer.co.uk/music/classi... now online - Parsifal and Il barbiere di Siviglia

Delighted with the wonderful review in @theobserveruk.bsky.social by @fionahmaddocks.bsky.social of our Bach 1725 concert @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social & Oxford Cultural Programme - celebrating the 300th anniversary of Bach’s Cantata for Ascension Day (the ms is on show in the Weston Library).

Couldn’t find this online (yet?) observer.co.uk but here is pdf with old favourite headline

Nice work @theobserveruk.bsky.social - the first issue under the new @tortoisemedia.bsky.social regime is a encouraging - with fave writers @fionahmaddocks.bsky.social @lauracummingart.bsky.social & @msrachelcooke.bsky.social still the cultural driving force!

The new Observer website is a mess to navigate, but by using the search term "orchestra", I managed to locate @fionahmaddocks.bsky.social's latest: observer.co.uk/culture/musi...

Sad to hear Martin Graham - with Lizzie Graham founder of Longborough FestivalOpera - has died. A twinkling enthusiast with a vision

A 5* review from @fionahmaddocks.bsky.social in The Observer for Mahler 3 with Domingo Hindoyan and @liverpoolphil.bsky.social last week. It was a special night.

Free concert Thurs 20.3, 2-3pm #Schubert Society GB, St James, Sussex Gdns W2 3UD. Schubert & Dvorak. In memory of John WS Walton 1925–2025 former President SEBRA. No tickets required; donations welcome.

While it’s always a little bit galling when your would-be readers write in saying can’t they get your beautiful, top-quality, 400-page hardback more cheaply somewhere… Blackwell’s does have it at a small discount at present, with postage included. #MyraHess

The week in classical: The Makropulos Affair; Uprising – review www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

Positive stuff in negative times. The dynamic @errollynwallen.bsky.social .