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.
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.
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?
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.
When it's good to be loud!
Tuesday 26 November 2024
We’ve just released our 2023/24 ‘Annual Review’ of our Education work. Discover the impact we’ve been having from Durham to Plymouth.
THE LIGHT OF SPAIN
Thursday 5 October 2023
Find out more about Cristobal de Morales, whose motets we will be exploring in our 2023/24 season of Bach, the Universe and Everything.
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.
