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From our UK regional touring to our work here with the students of Acland Burghley School, we’re always striving to keep music alive and accessible for all. We are redefining what it means to be an orchestra in the 2020s – and can’t do it without your support. Find out the ways that you can support and become a part of this story below.

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  • Composers

Angels and monsters: a life singing Handel

Monday 30 January 2023

Ian Bostridge introduces the very personal selection of arias for our Handel Around the World concert.
Article
  • Composers

Journey's End

Friday 3 March 2023

We explore how travel may have inspired a composer more usually renowned for staying at home.
Audio
  • OAE Musicians
  • Podcasts
  • Tea with Netty

Tea with Netty #38: OAE Leader Matthew Truscott

Wednesday 15 March 2023

OAE leader Matthew Truscott joins Netty for tea and takes us on a (boat) ride through his musical career, reminisces about long-standing OAE friendships and recalls a startling find under the house.
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  • Composers
  • History and Theory of Music

Assembling the Mass in B Minor

Thursday 16 March 2023

In her second blog, Joanna Wyld puts together the pieces of the jigsaw that were to become the magnificent Mass in B Minor we know today.
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  • Composers
  • History and Theory of Music

Bach's Mass in B Minor in New Colours

Friday 17 March 2023

In a blog taken from the notes to accompany his 2013 recording of the Mass in B Minor, Václav Luks writes about how he sought to strip away decades and centuries of performance traditions to rediscover the work for himself.
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  • Artists
  • Rising Stars

Introducing our next Rising Stars of the Enlightenment

Friday 31 March 2023

We're thrilled to welcome our new cohort of six singers joining our Rising Stars of the Enlightenment scheme.
Audio
  • Podcasts
  • Tea with Netty

Tea with Netty #39: Dame Emma Kirkby

Wednesday 19 April 2023

Soprano and early music specialist Dame Emma Kirkby joins Netty for a cuppa, taking us back to her earliest career moments.
Article
  • Composers

Beginnings and endings.

Tuesday 25 April 2023

How we chose the music for our 2023/24 season. More importantly, how do we decide what order to put it in?
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  • Acland Burghley
  • Education

17,967 reasons to be cheerful

Wednesday 25 October 2023

We’ve just released our 2022/23 ‘Annual Review’ of our Education work. Discover the impact we’ve been having from Durham to Plymouth.
Audio
  • Artists
  • Podcasts
  • Tea with Netty

Tea with Netty #45: Michael Chance

Monday 16 October 2023

In the latest Tea with Netty episode countertenor extraordinaire Michael Chance, who is currently running The Grange Festival and other music projects, shares his journey as a singer and teacher.

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