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Announcing Our 2025/26 Season Wine Partner: Ambriel

Wednesday 15 October 2025

We’re delighted to announce Ambriel as our official wine partner for the 2025/26 season.
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A vision of an ideal nation?

Friday 19 September 2025

Handel’s Solomon presents a perfectly united and peaceful Israel, ruled by an unimpeachable king of unparalleled wisdom.
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Can you dance to Bach's orchestral works?

Thursday 3 July 2025

In this short video, Kim Brandstrup explains how working with young dancers at Acland Burghley School has been…
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  • History and Theory of Music
  • Southbank Centre 2024-25

Bach's Great Passion

Friday 28 March 2025

The St Matthew Passion is one of the monumental works of the 18th Century, yet its message continues…
A group of dancers who are all mid-jump
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Introducing Breaking Bach

Thursday 13 March 2025

We're breaking the code of the dance rhythms in Bach's music.
Headshot portraits of Roxanna Panufnik, Olga Pashchenko, Electra Perivolaris, Freya Waley-Cohen, Errollyn Wallen and Fanny Mendelssohn
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Das Jahr Playlist

Friday 21 February 2025

Discover the music of the incredibly talented Fanny Mendelssohn and the four composers who have written pieces inspired…
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  • History and Theory of Music
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5 Things to Know About Bach and The Brandenburg Concertos

Friday 1 November 2024

Are the Brandenburg Concertos peak Bach?
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Sarah Connolly on Mahler's 'Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen'

Tuesday 13 September 2011

Mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly talks about Mahler and his Lieder Eines Fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer), which she performed with us in 2011.
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Phil Dale on the Trombone in Bruckner

Monday 18 April 2016

Trombone Philip Dale talks about the trombone used in Bruckner and explores the types of instrument that were used before then.
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From Deep Within the Archive: Bach's Double Violin Concerto

Friday 13 November 2015

From deep in the archive we have unearthed an old VHS recording of us performing on BBC Scotland in 1990, playing the 1st movement of Bach's Concerto for Two Violins.

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