A Bach-centric matinee… #HIP

Faces at Amsterdam’s @allardpierson.bsky.social archeological museum. #history #AncientEgypt

I don’t normally wear jewellery, but I really like my new broach. #glam

Finally some Mozart again tonight: the Amsterdam premiere of Serebrennikov’s Nozze under the baton of Francesco Corti. I haven’t read too much about the production, so I’ll let myself be surprised… (in a good way?) 😉 #Mozart #DutchNationalOpera

Not bad for a Thursday afternoon. Amsterdam showing its pretty side. #CityScape

The Soller era at Netherlands Bach Society is kicking into high gear with the latest concert tour. I’m seeing them in Amsterdam this Sunday. Can’t wait. 😎 #NetherlandsBachSociety #Bach

Good night from the Amsterdam canals. #WeekendFun

A wonderfully sunny day to have off! 😎 #Amsterdam

A beautiful day in Amsterdam. Lovely atmosphere at the end of the day with people enjoying a glass of wine outside (the Amsterdam way: people carry their dining tables/chairs outside and sitting in front of their house or apartment). Lots of prep happening for Monday’s King Day celebrations too… 🥳

Chilly sunny Amsterdam around the 1928 Olympic stadium. #WhiteBlue

Some big Bach for this Sunday. #NetherlandsBachSociety #RenéJacobs youtu.be/hNHWSSnw0L8?...

Saturday night & Sunday morning. #Ams

Straight off the Eurostar from London to Dutch National Opera’s opening night of Kratzer’s production of Die Passagierin. Had a few glasses of very good Spätburgunder with a friend who knows her wines, so I’m ready. 😎🕺💅🏼

Note to self: When The Netherlands Bach Society’s season subscriptions go on sale at 10am and you’re travelling to the UK, the Netherlands Bach society doesn’t move with you to the new time zone. 🙄 (No front row for the St Matthew next year, but still quite a good seat.) Oh, the hardships of life… 😉

Lovely London on the way to…

Bedtime after a truly wonderful dinner with old friends at #Perilla in London. (With some very good -Slovenian- wine). Life can be good. #HappyBunny

A good start to the day… #sun #coffee #Amsterdam

“Go and see a physio for your frozen shoulder”, they said. They might as well have said “torturer”. Nothing wrong with a grown man climbing on top of me. On the contrary. But when he dug his elbow into my back and leaned on it with all his weight, I’m afraid the noises I made were… 😱🤣 #PAIN

www.instagram.com/reel/DWtFjnR... #ErbarmeDich

That’s a lot of stuff… #ListeningNow

Here we go, the St Matthew Passions in the holy of holies (if you’re Dutch): Naarden. A much more intimate setting than the Concertgebouw, particularly since I’m sitting in the front row. 😎🕺 #Bach #NetherlandsBachSociety #Matthew

Back to the #Concertgebouw tonight for another St Matthew, this time with #NetherlandsBachSociety and Masaaki Suzuki. This will probably be a totally different experience from Pichon’s theatricalities last night. #Bach

I’m off the the #Concertgebouw tonight for my first of three St Matthews this week (on consecutive days). Me overdoing the HIP baroque thing a little perhaps? 😇😎🙄 #Bach #Pygmalion

Chilly but… #canals

St Matthew / Suzuki / Netherlands Bach Society live: www.youtube.com/live/8JqyZmH...

Sunday morning coffee, newspapers and walk. Creature of habit… Who, me? #rituals

Chilly but bright weather. Time to pay a visit to my local market. Have a lovely weekend! #Saturday #Jordaan

Dutch National Opera's 26/27 season looks quite interesting with Der Fliegende Hollãnder (Mãlkki/De Beer), the St John's Passion, Orfeo ed Euridice (Corti/Huffman), Kosky directing a new opera by Du Yun/Royce Vavrek… #DNO26/27 #opera 1/2

Masaaki Suzuki conducting the St Matthew live online this Sunday. #AllOfBach #NBS www.youtube.com/live/8JqyZmH...

Wind music in Amsterdam’s red light district tonight (in the Walloon Church to be precise). #LiveMusic

Good morning from the blissfully quiet and sunny canals. (Tourists incoming, no doubt…) #SundayMotning #Amsterdam

Time for some piano at Amsterdam’s #Muziekgebouw. With six hands, no less, and they’re quite the hands… #Spring #Sacre

First wine of the year in my mother’s garden. 😎🕺

It is passion time. #amazing #Bach #NetherlandsBachSociety youtu.be/zMf9XDQBAaI?...

Now this is a concert I’m really looking forward to (and thrilled to be seeing twice). 🥰😎 #NetherlandsBachSociety

Blue skies and an almost comically traditional Dutch polling station for today’s municipal elections in Amsterdam. No queues to vote though. Surely not a good sign… #vote

Work is off to a slightly chaotic start this week. But hey-ho, all good. I’m getting a new bed today, so hopefully I’ll have an extra good night’s sleep tonight…

Cantatas, arias and duets by Barbara Strozzi tonight at Amsterdam’s #Muziekgebouw with Hana Blaziková, Dorothee Mields and the Hathor Consort. Album just out. #LiveMusic #baroque #HIP

You know that Sunday evening feeling? I actually have a fun evening ahead with a concert of, no doubt, great music making, but still… And this album is perfect for just such a mood. (Or at least as far as I’ve listened right now…) #ListeningNow #FromSilence #MiguelBonal

Véronique Gens sounding fantastic. #listening PS Any chance of her Marschallin appearing on a stage again in the near future? Pretty please? 😎

Seeing these artists on the concert tour accompanying this release in Amsterdam on Sunday. Can’t wait. Totally my cup of tea, with my kind of musicians. #baroque #ListeningNow

No idea what to expect, but I’m off to Netherlands Bach Society’s Opera Circus (staged) production at The Hague’s Theatre Royal no less. We’ll see. Perhaps it’s the kind of thing even Timothée Chalamet could get in to… #Baroque #LiveTheatre

Johanna Soller’s first season with the Netherlands Bach Society is looking very exciting. Solists include brilliant Brits Alex Potter, Carine Tinney and Guy Cutting. Václav Luks will conduct the St Matthew, with Evangelist Rapahel Höhn (😍) and a top lineup including Dorothee Mields… 1/3

Loving the sunshine in Amsterdam, except that it showed up in the online workshop I was leading this morning. With the sun blazing through the blinds, I kept moving my laptop just to see the screen… until I knocked a full glass of water onto my keyboard. 🙄🤣 At least it’s a deductible expense. #dumb

Sunny spring weather ahead this week. Bring it on! #sun

Just saw The Godfather in the cinema. It had been over 30 years since I’d seen it, and I really wasn’t prepared for how dull it is. It is really just a soap opera with men taking themselves too seriously and killing each other. Also, Brando is okay, but… really? And, fuck, it’s slow. 🙄 #film

Sunday morning listening. Loving the Zoë Martlow songs so far. #ListeningNow

An early music fest with Dorothee Oberlinger and Núria Rial at the Muziekgebouw tonight - right up yours truly’s street. #Baroque #HIP

Rain rain rain and not even a Sunday morning baroque concert to look forward to. (I’ll have to drink my coffee in HIP fashion…) #RealityHits