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Beginnings and endings.
Tue 25 Apr 2023How 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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TEA WITH NETTY #39: DAME EMMA KIRKBY
Wed 19 Apr 2023Soprano and early music specialist Dame Emma Kirkby joins Netty for a cuppa, taking us back to her earliest career moments. From learning Latin to performing and teaching opera, she talks about the approaches to singing baroque music and has been an inspirational figure to many other sopranos.
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Introducing our next Rising Stars of the Enlightenment
Fri 31 Mar 2023Meet our new cohort of six singers joining our Rising Stars of the Enlightenment scheme. Initiated in 2017, Rising Stars of the Enlightenment is a two-year programme for emerging singers as part of our broader commitment to investing in the talents of the future
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Bach’s Mass in B Minor in New Colours
Fri 17 Mar 2023In 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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Assembling the Mass in B Minor
Thu 16 Mar 2023In 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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TEA WITH NETTY #38: OAE LEADER MATTHEW TRUSCOTT
Wed 15 Mar 2023OAE 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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Journey’s End
Fri 3 Mar 2023Joanna Wyld explores the two great journeys of Bach's life and how travel may have inspired him more than we think.
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TEA WITH NETTY #37: SOPRANO JULIA DOYLE
Wed 15 Feb 2023One of OAE’s favourite sopranos, Julia Doyle, joins Netty for tea in this jam-packed episode of unusual vocal exercises to the perils of playing the viola and keeping a tortoise in the fridge.
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