SimonBDC
@simonbdc.bsky.social
Three Choirs Festival volunteer archivist and historian. 'Three Choirs Festival in 10 Concerts' (Logaston) Gloucester Cathedral Volunteer and Friend. Hampshire Cricket fan.
The Three Choirs Festival remembers Anthony Boden (1938–2025). Anthony was Administrator of the Gloucester Festival, a musicologist and author of the definitive 'History of the Three Choirs Festival'.
Festival Archivist Simon Carpenter remembers Anthony Boden (1938–2025) | Three Choirs Festival
One of my most prized treasures is a copy of Herbert Brewer’s memoirs signed by his successor as Gloucester organist, Herbert Sumsion. It was given to me
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How does @threechoirs.bsky.social keep track of all its important premieres over the years? Find out this and much more on our latest blog post: iaml-uk-irl.org/curating-300...
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...
Peter Hillier Memorial Walk | Three Choirs Festival
On 7 August 2004 I was in my place on the Chorus staging for the Opening Service of my very first Three Choirs Festival as a member of the Festival Chor
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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...
Gloucester 2026 | Three Choirs Festival
Learn more about the Gloucester 2026 festival here! See what's on, who's performing and how to get involved!
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"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.”
Our Top Classical Albums of 2024
It's been a terrific year for classical music. From passionate piano solos to lush orchestral works and beyond, here are our favorite classical recordings released in 2024!
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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...
BBC One - Bargain Hunt, Series 71, Leominster 26
Caroline visits Hereford Cathedral as it prepares to host the Three Choirs Festival.
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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...
First Person: St John's College choral conductor Christopher Gray on recording 'Lament & Liberation'
When I arrived at St John’s College, Cambridge, in April 2023, it was a daunting prospect to be taking over the reins of a choir with such a distinguished recording heritage: there have been more than...
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*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 👇
Vaughan Williams - Let Beauty Awake - Performed by Duo Atlantis (Rachel Payne & Jack Tyndale-Biscoe)
Enjoy the incredible 'Let Beauty Awake' from 'Songs of Travel' by Ralph Vaughan Williams, one of the greatest English composers of the 20th century. This stu...
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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.
Herbert von Karajan was born on this day in 1908. Richard Bratby explores his vast Deutsche Grammophon legacy: bachtrack.com/feature-herb...
Highest lustre: the complete Herbert von Karajan
Deutsche Grammophon’s STAGE+ has assembled a comprehensive archive of Karajan’s recordings, concert films and opera performances – which did much to define the sound of classical music in the 20th cen...
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