Crafting a violin from a tree
Tuesday 19 October 2021
The vitality of our music is ingrained in our historic instruments.
What's in a song?
Thursday 3 March 2022
Dr Robert Samuels looks at the influence of song in Mahler's symphonies ahead of our performance of the Fourth Symphony.
Jürgen Krauss from the Great British Bake Off Introduces the Stadtpfeiffer
Friday 19 August 2022
Imagine a world without "Alexa, play Morganmusik by Hindemith".
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.
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.
The Grit That Makes the Pearl
Friday 26 May 2023
We look through the history of the opera that critics called "the best in every way" of Gilbert & Sullivan.
Brothers on Different Paths
Monday 15 May 2023
Nicholas Kenyon compares the musical journeys of Carl Philip Emanuel and Johann Christian Bach.
Christmas time, cantatas and wine.
Monday 6 November 2023
Christmas wasn't all stollen and Glühwein for an 18th Century town music director. We investigates the tensions smouldering below the surface in Bach's Leipzig.
The Underrated Giant: Talking about Mendelssohn with Sir András Schiff
Wednesday 3 April 2024
Jessica Duchen sat down with András Schiff to talk about composer Felix Mendelssohn.
