What a joy to play to a packed out @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social tonight with Elgar’s transcendent The Dream of Gerontius. Thank to everyone who came and to our magnificent soloists Thomas Elwin, Victoria Simmonds and Gareth Brynmor John and all 59 orchestral players. A night to remember.

Locusts! Frogs! Flies! Darkness! The vivid word-painting in Handel’s Great Escape oratorio Israel in Egypt is even more dynamic (and shorter) than his Messiah.
Come hear us sing it on 12 July in the marvellous acoustic of St. Gabriel’s, Pimlico.
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Thanks to everyone who came to hear us sing our all @willtoddmusic.bsky.social programme including Will’s genuinely extraordinary Requiem for choir, soprano and electric guitarist. Susan Young and @thomasgraymusic were magnificent and watching you all, rapt, as we sang was a thrill.

Our 1 March concert at York Late Music Festival features the premiere of a piece by @david-lancaster.bsky.social following his ethereal Feathers on our Beauty for Ashes album.
Also, Whitacre’s stunning setting of When David Heard in 18-part harmony +’music by Arvo Pärt. latemusic.org/product/elys...

Supper awaits me for after tonight’s rehearsal for our Christmas concert on Thursday at St. Giles-in-the-Fields, London WC2H 8LG.
Can’t promise to feed you but there is deliciousness via Bob Chilcott, Judith Weir, Richard Allain, The Swingle Singers, Roderick Williams and heaps more. Treat yourself!