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I HAVE LEFT MY VIOLIN ON A BUS GOING TO THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL. IT WAS EITHER THE 52 OR 452 IN THE DIRECTION OF LADBROKE GROVE. PLEASE HELP IM SUPPOSED TO BE PLAYING IN TODAYS PROM
@TfL
@bbcproms
@BBCRadio3
_on the train_
Fellow passenger: Are you listening to Bach?
Me: Yes! How do you know?
Fellow passenger: You're radiating joy. And it's a bit loud.
🌞 Yorkshire 🌞
THANK YOU TO EVERYONE who reposted my message. I made it to the
@RoyalAlbertHall
for our BBC Prom. Here are all the
@mco_london
violinists backstage during the 2nd interval of Trojans, and as you can see, we all have our violins! As for our dignity...I left mine on the 452 bus
Today's Early Music Show
@BBCRadio3
is an exploration of 🥰the viol🥰 ft. legends Paolo Pandolfo & Amélie Chemin; plus The Early Music News from me (🎨Beccaruzzi, KMSsp141)
Today's
@BBCRadio3
EARLY MUSIC SHOW takes place here, Leipzig's Nikolaikirche, and we're winding the clocks back 300 years to 30 May 1723 for gorgeous
#BACH
📻🎻Tune in from 2pm
I join Petroc and Lucy to talk all things Bach, Handel, and that awfully sticky word....authenticity.
@mco_london
at
@bbcproms
HIPsters gather: Tonight, BBC FOUR, 7pm 📺
@NickyBenedetti
's insta stories are the most beautifully honest intimate glimpses into the life of a concert violinist; pain, anxiety, all the highs and all the lows 💙
Time to practise what I preach..."Buy it, tell all your friends: if you're lucky, this recording will clamp on to you like a barnacle to a boat".
@theotimeviolin
and
@lesombres
are
@GramophoneMag
Recording of The Month ⛵️🐚
On my way to
@cheltfestivals
to play with
@LaSerenissimaUK
I have been waiting SIXTEENTH MONTHS to wear this waistcoat that I bought in Montréal, oh and to play to live audiences ;)
Surreal and scary to be sandwiched between these two EMS superstars. Gorgeous polyphony today with
@hannahcfrench
,🌾 'On Bach's Farm' 👨🌾airs in a week, and
@lucieskeaping
celebrates Jeffrey Skidmore's 70th in a fortnight
@excathedrachoir
🎼 As musicians of East Asian heritage are starting to get more and more praise, barriers still exist for young artists in Britain.
Join Mark Seow as he embarks on a journey to discover how some composers fully embrace both cultures of their heritage and classical music.
"There's a chewy materiality to Phantasm's sound, as if it's something pulled between the players, an elasticity of resonance" My review of
@phantasmviol
for
@LinnRecords
in the latest issue of
@GramophoneMag
Today I went to Cambridge for the first time since Feb 2020. Even in the windy damp, this place warms my heart. Was able to talk shop with
@fatima__tweets
&
@aojbehan
, the best PhD cheerleaders a guy could have.
"The wood in an oud or a violin reflects an old forest, the bodies who played it, and many other things, but in an intrinsic, organic way, transcending abstractions." Jaron Lanier
@NewYorker
Simon Harrison is CPE Bach in 'BACH AFTER THE BLEEP', a show written by me for
@BBCRadio3
. Tune in today at 2pm 👨👦☎️ Thanks to
@bonaomi1
for seeing this through!
#FathersDays
Introducing the March 2021 issue of Gramophone:
@RCapucon
on exploring Elgar with Sir Simon Rattle and
@houghhough
; Danny Driver on recording Ligeti’s Études; Szymanowski’s Stabat mater – which is the best version? Explore here:
Introducing the August 2023 issue of Gramophone! Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons: three centuries on, why the work is still loved by artists and audiences alike. Plus, the magnificent power of music and Shakespeare, and Karajan: the legacy of an icon...
"This is a performance with the fragrant witchery to dissolve night-time tantrums, to reconfigure concrete as if it were cashmere." My review of
@JoubertCaillet
for Ricercar
@Outheremusic
in this month's
@GramophoneMag
Bows from last night
#BachAndSons
@_bridgetheatre
As a Bach scholar I wasn't sure I would enjoy, but I DID! Gorgeous integration of music, family drama, musicological detail... and
@AlCoppola
an excellent CPE
I miss Chris's mentorship. I remember working through the Brahms op36 with him for the Kirchner arrangement, on bellies full of jacket potatoes and baked beans.
Remembering Chris Hogwood who died on this very day seven years ago.
A wonderful conductor and musicologist who left us such a superb legacy
Much missed!
@hannahcfrench
I caught the Ingegneri and its Italian counterpoint and the historical brass immediately took me back to my time at Girton - and then you announce it was a Girton recording!
V important listening as our definitions of Britishness change. Vivid storytelling and nuance from
@ErrollynWallen
- those pianos floating across seas on ships! And as a Brit who has relinquished his Malaysian passport for this sceptered isle, all very moving stuff indeed
"Some keys, G major for instance, are bright with lemon-curd tartness, while others glow like jellyfish in the deep" My review for Aaron Pilsan on
@alpha_classics
in this month's Gramophone
We are pleased to introduce the June 2021 issue, which features an unmissable tribute to Martha Argerich at 80, a look at how Miloš is building a beautiful new guitar repertoire and our Summer Festivals Guide. Find out more:
@terratologist
This is so beautiful. Really interesting that the music is a ferryman as opposed to the boat. I love that it's not cast as just a vehicle. There's knowledge there too, a wisdom of crossing those seas. It knows *how* to transport people
"We're taken to the tavern where shrieking, churning and groaning strings deliver performances ale-soaked in character." My review of
@HollandBaroque
@PENTATONEmusic
Telemann Polonoise in this month's
@GramophoneMag
Introducing the April 2021 issue of Gramophone:
✰
@LiseDavidsen
: the thrilling soprano’s new album of Beethoven, Verdi & Wagner
✰ Composer as conductor: Stravinsky on the podium
✰ Vaughan Williams & the art of folk song
Plus, much more 👇
"Telemann's Vla Concerto opens with the warm embrace of an Italian grandmother"... 👵 More from me on
@AntoineTamestit
Telemann with
@Akamus
in this month's
@GramophoneMag
🎻
@DrMaDMo
@CamUniMusic
my favourite bit was your response to one of the questions. that it's not enough just to establish messiness, to say look it's messy; what do we do with it, where do we take it after that. I loved that.
"Some days it feels like I’m trading more in paint, Jackson Pollock-ing at the screen", me on writing PhD
@Kings_College
and for radio. Ft. the evergreen inspiration of
@clemencybh
New research blog post: third-year PhD student
@mrmarkseow
discusses J.S. Bach and writing for radio, ahead of presenting this Sunday's
@BBCRadio3
#EarlyMusicShow
, 'On Bach's Farm' 🐄 🐑
In December, before lockdown, the
@MaxwellQuartet
filmed a special performance in the Kettle's Yard House.
You can now watch the full performance on our website for a limited time, until 25 March. We hope you enjoy it! 🎶
@CamUnivMuseums
@Cambridge_Uni
@IMcMillan
Reminds me of Ali Smith in
@parisreview
"I love rich. The richer the better. Nobody takes a rich risk anymore. Why would we not? Language is endless currency. Shower me with words like that girl in the myth gets showered with coins." (2017)
We had some excellent feedback after our Monteverdi concert just over a week ago. What a wonderful evening it was!🎶💫
Thank you for all the kind words- it motivates us to continue creating these magical experiences for listeners…
"You can feel the entire band in collective sway, sweating inégal through their pores ... wonderful" 😅 My review of
@concertocph
Bach Overtures for CPO
@ChandosRecords
in July
@GramophoneMag
Editor's Choice - July 2021 👀 Outstanding new recordings of Brahms’s piano concertos, Bach’s orchestral suites, Mozart’s Serenades, Duruflé’s organ works and more: