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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
  • Rising Stars

Why we covered our singer in body paint for our newest genre-bending Purcell music video

Thursday 6 May 2021

In our latest genre-bending music video, we remade Gotye's hit music video 'Somebody that I used to know'.
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  • Composers
  • Rising Stars

Dido's Lament but backwards and with BMXers

Monday 8 March 2021

In our latest digital adventure, we play with expectations of genre in this remake of Coldplay's hit music video 'The Scientist', with Purcell’s tragic ‘When I am Laid’ from Dido and Aeneas.
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  • Instruments

Exploring Beethoven's fortepiano

Wednesday 1 June 2022

Pianist and OAE Ambassador Cyrill Ibrahim travels to the Netherlands to get up close with the fortepiano that Sir Andras Schiff performs Beethoven's concertos on with us.
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  • Composers

Saint-Saëns: The Man and His Music

Friday 13 January 2023

How well do we know Camille Saint-Saëns?
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  • Instruments
  • OAE Musicians

Evolution of the Timpani - Part 1: Introducing the Baroque Timpani

Friday 19 August 2022

From humble and, let’s face it, slightly impractical beginnings we find out how the timpani come to be the sound of so many great musical (and historical) moments.
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  • History and Theory of Music
  • Instruments

Jürgen Krauss from the Great British Bake Off Introduces the Stadtpfeiffer

Friday 19 August 2022

Imagine a world without "Alexa, play Morganmusik by Hindemith".
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  • History and Theory of Music

What is chamber music?

Monday 12 August 2019

The term 'chamber' is often used to describe bands of various sizes, from string quartets to medium-sized orchestras.

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