Our Festival isn't only about great music: on 3rd October, Nicholas Flory is giving a preview of the forthcoming National Gallery exhibition of Van Eyck portraits (Nov 26-April 27). Check our website for details.

This year's festival (2-11 Oct) starts with a new work by Emma-Ruth Richards performed by soprano Jennifer France and pianist Lana Bode. Check our website for more details www.little-missenden.org Tickets available from mid-August

We were treated to a wonderful recital by soprano Ariana Ricci and pianist Jorn Quirijnen last night hosted by Earl Howe at Penn House. Just one of the perks of being a Friend of the Festival (another being priority booking). Check the website for a link to join the Friends. www.little-missenden.org

Make sure you've marked your diary for 2-11 October. The full programme will be announced soon but highlights include Clare Hammond, Lady Maisery and the Kleio Quartet. @clarehammondpiano.bsky.social www.little-missenden.org

Celebrating the birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach today. This year's festival will include performances of his glorious 'cello suites on Baroque, modern classical, and Hardanger 'cello. Here's a clip showing their versatility (maybe next year we'll get a nyckelharpa?!) youtu.be/BD6-M_fXTxE?...

Check our website for the first details of this year's festival www.little-missenden.org We are excited to welcome artists including @clarehammondpiano.bsky.social and the Kleio Quartet

Bring music into children's lives! We need someone to coordinate our school workshops next year. They take place in February with a concert in March in Great Missenden. You'll liaise with 3 schools and book the musicians. Details from [email protected] Please pass on

Little Missenden Festival funds music workshops for Year 2s at 3 state primary schools led by inspirational composer John Webb. Everyone had such fun today!

Cheer up! It's Mozart's birthday www.youtube.com/watch?v=cayM... This is surely a reason to smile

Final day!

The news is depressing, the weather is horrible, so cheer yourself up by looking forward to this year's festival (2-11 Oct). If you pass this on to people who might be interested we guarantee a warm fuzzy feeling for doing something positive! www.little-missenden.org/our-story.html

Here's an easy New Year's Resolution: mark your calendar for the 2026 Little Missenden Festival 2-11 October

We're looking forward to welcoming @siglodeorovocal.bsky.social to Little Missenden this evening. There are just 4 seats left! Book at www.little-missenden.org/2025-program...

Coming up this week! We're reviving our popular programme Hey for Christmas. The concept is an imagined 17th-century family Christmas in London, with carols, folks songs, ballads and broadsides. Oxford on Thurs, @ltmsdnfest.bsky.social on Friday and NW1 on Saturday. More info: siglodeoro.co.uk

There are just a few tickets left for our concert on 5 Dec when @siglodeorovocal.bsky.social recreate a 17th century Christmas. Details at www.little-missenden.org/2025-program...

Not long now… 🎄🎶 More details on our website.

Don't miss the final weekend of the Festival. Tickets still available for Galliard Ensemble (Fri Oct 10), Chelys Viol Consort (Sun Oct 12), and Emily MacGregor (Sat Oct 11). NB the @stileantico.co.uk concert on Saturday evening is sold out. Details at www.little-missenden.org/2025-program...

You really can get close to the music at Little Missenden Festival. The Gould Piano Trio's cellist, Richard Lester suggested someone in the front row might be able to scratch his nose during their lively performance of Haydn, Rebecca Clarke and Schubert last night! Photograph: Robert Piwko

Once again, the Festival has given us music ranging from Monteverdi to jazz and an art lecture. Don't miss the rest. Details at www.little-missenden.org Thanks to the Monteverdi String Band, Piatti Quartet, @piattiquartet.bsky.social Zoe Rahman. Pics by Robert Piwko

The church is ready to welcome you to Little Missenden Festival which starts tonight!

The festival starts today! The Stile Antico concert on 11th October is now sold out but seats are available for many other exciting concerts and talks. Details and tickets at www.little-missenden.org/2025-program...

You don't only get amazing music at our Festival, the Piatti Quartet @piattiquartet.bsky.social weave together poetry inspired by the British countryside with music by composers including Vaughan Williams and Thomas Adès on Sunday October 5th. Details at www.little-missenden.org/2025-program...

Little Missenden Festival starts on Friday! We are excited to welcome an array of performers including @rebecaomordia.bsky.social @stileantico.co.uk Full details at www.little-missenden.org/2025-program...

Can you help encourage the musicians of the future? Little Missenden Festival urgently needs a volunteer to coordinate the workshops we hold at 3 primary schools in Buckinghamshire in January and February each year. Please email [email protected] for details. This is an unpaid position.

We're looking forward to hearing the Piatti Quartet at Little Missenden on the afternoon of 5th October. We're offering a discount if you book for both concerts. Full details here www.little-missenden.org/2025-program...

There's something special about music from over 400 years ago performed in an even older venue. Look out for the Chelys Viol Consort celebrating the life of Orlando Gibbons 12th October in Little Missenden. Details at www.little-missenden.org/2025-program... and a taster here youtu.be/9Q6RsFi366A

Less than a month to go before this year's festival. We look forward to welcoming @piattiquartet.bsky.social @rebecaomordia.bsky.social @stileantico.co.uk and many other amazing performers. Details and tickets at www.little-missenden.org/2025-program...

Hear Emily MacGregor talk about her new book which has been described as "for anyone who is interested in our complex, joyful, knotty lifelong relationships with music" (3pm, 11th October). Tickets at www.little-missenden.org/202.../emily...

Little Missenden Festival has something for everyone: world class classical music, folk and jazz plus art and literature lectures. Booking opens today. See www.little-missenden.org/2025-program... Please spread the good news! @stileantico.co.uk @piattiquartet.bsky.social @rebecaomordia.bsky.social

General booking opens on Monday August 18th for the Galliard Ensemble's performance of works by John Taverner, Amy Beach, Carl Nielsen and Cecilia McDowall (10th October). Details and tickets at www.little-missenden.org/.../galliard...

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Friends' priority booking opens today! See www.little-missenden.org/2025-program... for details of this year's wonderful programme including @stileantico.co.uk and @piattiquartet.bsky.social General booking opens on 18th August.

Friends priority booking opens on Monday for this year's festival, including the Gould Piano Trio playing Rebecca Clarke, Schubert and Haydn. Details at www.little-missenden.org/2025-program...

The @piattiquartet.bsky.social are treating us to midday and afternoon concerts at this year's festival. Why not make a day of it? Sunday October 5th. Priority booking opens on 4th August. Check the website www.little-missenden.org for details.

And you can hear @piattiquartet.bsky.social live in Little Missenden on Sunday 5th October. Check www.little-missenden.org for details. Booking will open in August.

This year's jazz evening will be on October 4th and features pianist Zoe Rahman and friends. Bookings open in August.

If you can't wait until October to hear Rebeca Omordia at Little Missenden, you can hear her @wigmore-hall.org.uk on July 19th as part of the African Concert Series. See www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202...

The opening concert of this year's festival (Oct 3rd) will be "The Madrigal Reimagined" performed by the Monteverdi String Band with Hannah Ely (soprano) and Toby Carr (lute). Bookings open in August.

We're looking forward to hearing Emily MacGregor talk about her new book 'While the Music Lasts'. Mark you diary for 11th October and add this to your summer reading list. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/while-t...

Visit the Festival website for an early look at the 2025 programme (Oct 3-12). Booking will open in August. www.little-missenden.org

Robert Schumann was born on this day in 1810. Here's a rather lovely Daguerrotype of him with Clara. His Kinderszenen form part of a concert on 5th October at Little Missenden by the Piatti Quartet @piattiquartet.bsky.social and pianist Huw Watkins.

This year's art lecture (Oct 4th) features the current Siena exhibition at the National Gallery which closes on June 22nd. Highly recommended!

Curious about what delights the 2025 Festival will offer? Find out more at our Annual Meeting (4.30pm Sunday April 27th, Little Missenden Village Hall, HP7 0RF). All welcome.

Today (7th March) marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937). Here's his rather painterly signature.

Celebrating the life of Ruth Gipps (20 February 1921 – 23 February 1999) composer, oboe player and pianist.

At this year's #festival we will celebrate 500 years of #Palestrina. His exact date of birth isn't known, but he was 68 when he died in February 1594, so it was during 1525. By which time parts of Little Missenden Church were already 400 years old: mark your diary for some new-fangled #polyphony!

@wigmore-hall.org.uk is offering a free live-stream of this evening's concert of Konstantin Krimmel and Ammiel Bushakevitz performing Schubert songs. www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202... #lieder #schubert #london #concert #baritone #piano

Join us this Friday (31st) and celebrate Schubert's birthday with baritone Marcus Farnsworth and pianist Sholto Kynoch 🎶 There are only a few tickets left so don't delay! oxfordsong.org/events/schub...

Schubert was born on 31st January, 1797. Celebrating his short but amazingly productive life today. Here's the MS of the Erlking.

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