Michael Tippett Musical Foundation

❗️Applications for our 2025 Grants close this Tuesday, Sep 30. If you're planning a performance or recording of Tippett's music, we want to hear about it. Application details on our website: www.tippettfoundation.org.uk/grants

Applications for our 2025 grants are open until Sep 30. We support projects anywhere in the world involving the recording or performance of Michael Tippett's music. For more info, and how to apply, visit: www.tippettfoundation.org.uk/grants

We're delighted to see two recent Tippett recordings we've supported on this year's Gramophone Magazine Awards shortlist: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's New Year on
@nmcrecordings.bsky.social and
@lporchestra.bsky.social's recording of the Piano Concerto & Symphony No. 2. 🥳

LPO/Gardner/Akhmetshina review – Tippett’s rose lake sounds glorious Star mezzo Aigul Akhmetshina shone in Ravel’s Shéhérazade, part of a vivid London Philharmonic programme of music evoking fairytales and far horizons

⭐⭐⭐⭐ from @theguardian.com for Sunday's #BBCProms @lporchestra.bsky.social concert, featuring a rare performance of Tippett's "glorious" The Rose Lake. Available to listen again on BBC Sounds till Oct 12.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...

Planning your next Tippett fix? We've updated our website with concerts throughout the rest of 2025 - including a very special Ryedale Festival performance next month of Crown of the Year & other rarities, featuring our chair Oliver Soden as reader. www.tippettfoundation.org.uk/forthcoming-...

Edward Gardner Conducts the LPO Edward Gardner conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme of 20th-century orchestral sound-pictures, including Debussy’s La mer, Sibelius’s The Oceanides and Ravel’s song-cycle Shéhéraz...

Amid much exceptional music making, wonderful to see Tippett's final orchestral work, The Rose Lake, on the 2025 #BBCProms programme courtesy of @lporchestra.bsky.social and Ed Gardner. www.bbc.co.uk/events/ezp2rz

Auld acquaintance • Andrew Ford Thirty-six year after its premiere, there is finally a recording of Michael Tippett’s problematic last opera

Auld acquaintance: Andrew Ford on Tippett's New Year for @insidestory.bsky.social
insidestory.org.au/auld-acquain...

Crown of the Year | Ryedale Festival

The 2025 Ryedale Festival will include a rare chance to hear Tippett's chamber cantata Crown of the Year, along with other works by both Tippett and Purcell. Priority booking opens on Mar 31; general booking on April 14. See you in Pickering! ryedalefestival.com/event/crown-...

Stealing away to friendship and joy: LSO plays Tippett and Beethoven An evocative reading of Tippett's early masterpiece sits proudly alongside a blistering performance of Beethoven's lasting gift to the world.

Stealing away to friendship and joy: Tippett and Beethoven embrace at the Barbican @londonsymphony.bsky.social
✍️ Christopher Woodley
bachtrack.com/review-pappa...

NMC Guest Playlist 9: Oliver Soden To cel

In celebration of the release of New Year by @nmcrecordings.bsky.social, don't miss this Tippett playlist put together by our chair, Oliver Soden.
www.nmcrec.co.uk/discover/nmc...

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Sally Groves on Michael Tippett's 'New Year' NMC Princi

✒️ New on NMC Discover ✒️

NMC Principal Benefactor and former Creative Director at Schott Music, Sally Groves provides a personal insight into Michael Tippett's 'New Year'.

You can read Sally's full article here: nmcrec.co.uk/discover/sal...

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Michael Tippett, Martyn Brabbins, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers - Michael Tippett: New Year Listen to Michael Tippett: New Year by Michael Tippett, Martyn Brabbins, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers.

📀OUT NOW MICHAEL TIPPETT: 'NEW YEAR'📀

The first commercial recording of Michael Tippett's opera New Year, featuring a stellar cast, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins

Buy/stream👉 nmcrecs.lnk.to/NewYear

YouTube video by NMC Recordings Michael Tippett: New Year | NMC Recordings

🚀NOW LAUNCHED🚀

Watch the trailer for Michael Tippett's space-age fairytale opera 'New Year' with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins and featuring a stellar cast✨

🎧Buy/stream: nmcrecs.lnk.to/NewYear
⬇️Trailer below⬇️

Congratulations to the brilliant @nmcrecordings.bsky.social! Why not celebrate by pre-ordering Tippett's New Year...out next Friday. nmc-recordings.myshopify.com/products/mic...

Super happy to see this nomination in particular. They say ‘riveting’ and ‘daring’, I say BONKERS, relevant, and hands down the musical highlight of my 2024. #RPSAwards @tippettmf.bsky.social

We were thrilled to support Birmingham Opera's production of New Year. Great to see if nominated for this year's @royalphilsoc.bsky.social #RPSAwards

More praise for @lporchestra.bsky.social's new Tippett disc from Gramophone this time - "an indispensable disc!"
www.gramophone.co.uk/review/tippe...

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra Sir Simon Rattle celebrates his 70th birthday with the LSO in a concert of British music

Happy 70th birthday to Sir Simon Rattle! @BBCRadio3 celebrations today include a broadcast of Jan 12's @londonsymphony.bsky.social concert featuring Tippett's Ritual Dances alongside Vaughan Williams' 5th symphony & and the world première of Turnage's guitar concerto.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Elgar Howarth (1935-2025)
A wonderful musician #RIP
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An aerial back view of the Halle Orchestra in action

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Tippett: Piano Concerto; Symphony No 2 album review – the energy of the music is irrepressible Edward Gardner conducts first-rate performances of two rarely recorded works, bringing Tippett’s musical language into sharp focus

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from Andrew Clements in @theguardian.com
for @lporchestra.bsky.social's new recording of Tippett's Piano Concerto and Symphony No 2. "the concerto teems with detail...the energy of the music is irrepressible"

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Getting into the Festive mood 🎄🥂🎁

NMC and BBCSSO announce first recording of Michael Tippett's opera 'New Year' BBCSSO will record the opera in April 2024, for release in early 2025

This landmark recording will also be released by
@nmcrecordings.bsky.social in, you guessed it, the new year. Watch this space for news. www.nmcrec.co.uk/discover/nmc...

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Michael Tippett's New Year A performance of Michael Tippett's New Year by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

How better to see out the old year than with...New Year. The final BBC Radio 3 Opera on 3 of 2024 will be the BBC Scottish Symphony's performance of Tippett's opera, captured live at City Halls, Glasgow back in April.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...