Clive Whitburn

In a world where women were expected to sit quietly at home, Clara Schumann forged a long career as a pianist, composer and more. Pianist Alexandra Dariescu explains.

Alexandra joins us this Friday to perform Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto.Book your tickets: buff.ly/3mS1BU7

“The Maids” @donmarwarehouse.bsky.social is an absolute tour de force! Stunning acting, innovative concept and modern take on the play. Brilliant Staging and use of tech. Loved it!

It will go higher.

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And you Holly

Out TODAY @ #MeyerMedia: #HOMMAGES from brilliant composer #AnthonyJosephLanman feat. fab pianist @hroadfeldt.bsky.social! Dedications to: #HildegardofBingen #Zappa #KehindeWiley #GaryGygax #Boulanger #Kurasowa #EddieVanHalen #MichioKaku #NeilPeart
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The album #Hommages is out! Music by Anthony Joseph Lanman and performed by yours truly! It is available on Bandcamp and all streaming platforms! 15 Hommages!!

Hi Holly,
Of course I remember. How could I not. Be great to hear some more of your playing on here.

Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death Pianist Alexandre Tharaud performs previously lost material by experimental French composer on a new album

Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death

Pianist Alexandre Tharaud performs previously lost material by experimental French composer on a new album

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

Eleanor Grant on vocals and double bass. Gus McQuaid on guitar.

Seasons in Time Eleanor and Gus · Album · 2025 · 12 songs

Absolutely stunning first album by Eleanor and Gus.
Highly recommend.

open.spotify.com/album/25sQkL...

Thank you!🤓

Thank you @sibelian62.bsky.social and @oboistaalli.bsky.social for RTs

Solstice (Orchestra) A hypnotic dance with a driving rhythm which builds and builds to a climax. This piece for orchestra keeps a C major triad, a basic building block with simplistic almost primitive connotations, drivin

Good morning
It’s the Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, and Winter Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere. Where ever you are, here is Solstice for Orchestra. Best played loud:

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We are so delighted to be performing the UK premiere of Libby Croad Composer's 'The Bronté Suite' as part of our concert at Cadogan Hall on Sunday 22nd June at 4pm.
Here, Robert Hugill catches up with Libby to hear all about her new work.
www.planethugill.com/2025/05/some...

Poem response to Starmer's Farage/Powell cosplay - full text in the link

Island of Strangers - by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social m.facebook.com/story.php?st...

RPS Young Classical Writers Prize

UK-based writers aged 16-25 can win up to £500 and the chance to write for a significant classical music organisation through the RPS Young Classical Writers Prize. Find out more and apply by 29 August via this link: royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/awards/rps-y...

“Don’t send these men to prison, make them plant trees instead”

Folk Duo “5th Quarter” album cover “Sculptures on the Beach” showing guitarist and fiddler in front of a derelict wooden fisherman’s hut on Dungeness Beach

My album about 20 years ago

Brighton Festival Chorus: Vespers of the Blessed Earth

On Thursday 22 May at Brighton Dome, our friends and RPS Corporate Members @bfchorus.bsky.social will be joined by the @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social for a nature and climate-themed programme. To find out more and book tickets visit: royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/whats_on/bfc...

Still buzzing by how electrifying and wonderful this performance was.

Passages by Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar - brilliantly performed tonight by Anoushka Shankar and Britten Sinfonia in Brighton. Sublime, transcendent inspirational. Loved it.

I get black smoke, but I get up again

Walking Hadrian’s Wall in 2012 we stopped briefly at Sycamore Gap. Today justice has been done.

Sir David, 99 on Thurs, says: "After almost 100 years on the planet, I now understand the most important place on Earth is not on land, but at sea."
The ocean is the planet's support system+humanity's greatest ally against climate catastrophe. Film shows how the world's oceans are at a crossroads.

Attenborough Ocean film 'greatest message he's ever told' Sir David says his new film Ocean is one of the most important of his career.

Sir David Attenborough is launching what he says is one of the most important films of his career as he enters his hundredth year.
He believes his new, cinema-length film Ocean could play a decisive role in saving biodiversity and protecting the planet from climate change. 1/

The power of music

Solidarity with trans people who are facing really hard times at the moment.