Ludwig van Beethoven @realludwigvan.myatproto.social The LeBron James of classical music. Started going deaf in my 20s. Finished going deaf in my 50s. NOT a parody account! "The situation is desperate, but not serious."
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Atelier Philidor @atelierphilidor.bsky.social A Passion for Art & Early Music
Classical Music Daily @classicalmusicdaily.com The world's first daily classical music magazine, launched 1 January 1999 by the late Basil Ramsey and Keith Bramich.
Something new every day, hopefully to inspire you, at https://www.classicalmusicdaily.com/?bsky
Alternative Classical @alterclassical.bsky.social Pioneering positive change in the classical music industry
OperaGlass Works @operaglassworks.bsky.social "OperaGlass Works is likely to change how we appreciate opera forever" - Arts Industry.
Allegri Singers @allegrisingers.bsky.social A chamber choir in the London Borough of Bromley allegrisingers.org.uk
Hannah French @hannahcfrench.bsky.social Presenter: @BBCRadio3’s The Early Music Show & Saturday Breakfast
Author: Sir Henry Wood Champion of JS Bach and The Rolling Year: Listening to the seasons with Vivaldi
Nicky Thomas Media @nickythomasmedia.bsky.social 🎼 PR and media relations for the classical music industry
The Brook Street Band @brookstreetband.bsky.social Where Handel lives! Award-winning period instrument chamber music group. Handel-lovers and specialists. Creators of the love:Handel festival.
La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social 🔥British ambassadors for Vivaldi & Italian baroque music
🎵'They really put the rock into baroque' @classicfm
💿 Exclusive content over on Patreon!
Dr Oliver Doyle @oliverdoyle.bsky.social Early career musicologist, part-time tenor and harpsichordist. Director musicaantica.org.uk, teaching and admin at Royal Academy of Music. Ex-doctoral researcher, ‘Sounding the Bookshelf 1501: Music in a year of Italian Printed Books’.
Musica Antica Rotherhithe @musicaantica.bsky.social Affordable concerts of music from the fifteenth - seventeenth centuries in South East London. Founded in 2016 by Dr Oliver Doyle and Jessica Eucker. musicaantica.org.uk
Richard Heason @rgwh.bsky.social Music and Culture Projects - ‘The Creatively Curious’ - ‘The Summer School Foundation’
Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social Musician, historian & mother. FRHistS. FSA.
Early music specialist & historical consultant for film, TV, radio & theatre.
Early Modernist.
Passamezzo. Greensleeves Project.
Occasional lecturer in Renaissance art & music at the Courtauld Institute.
Bachtrack @bachtrack.com Welcome to the world’s largest site for classical music, opera and dance: events, articles & reviews. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. https://bachtrack.com/
Saffron Walden Early Music @swearlymusic.bsky.social Sharing music and dance, esp early, locally and elsewhere. Performances, recordings, news.
Relocated from 🐦.
(Cover image: St Mary’s Parish Church, SW, Nr Cambridge, UK. ©️Peter Riding)
Owain Park @owainpark.bsky.social Musician, based in the UK 🎶
The Gesualdo Six @thegesualdosix.bsky.social Group of singers sharing stories from the road.
theartsdesk @theartsdesk.bsky.social theartsdesk.com - a daily serving of incisive, well-informed arts coverage. Enjoy criticism at its best.
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Siglo de Oro @siglodeorovocal.bsky.social Adventurous vocal ensemble based in London UK.
www.siglodeoro.co.uk
Bradford Festival Choral Society @bfcs1856.bsky.social Friendly, exciting Yorkshire choir, proud of our history. @RoyalPhilSoc award-shortlisted and @MakingMusic_UK award-winning. Sing with us or enjoy our concerts.
Philharmonie de Paris @philharmoniedeparis.fr Listen, watch, learn, discover and practice music in every form.
Gawain Glenton @gawainglenton.bsky.social Conductor/cornetto player living Manchester with scribbler/political better half and gorgeous kids. Here for early music, nice gardens, politics (I’m a Labour campaigner/candidate in Trafford) and food.
In Echo @inecho.bsky.social UK-based early music ensemble. We’ve performed at lots of lovely festivals and made recordings too.
Founder/director: Gawain Glenton (of this parish)
www.inecho.co.uk
info@inecho.co.uk
Fretwork Viol Consort @fretwork.bsky.social
Dr Katherine Emery @drkatherineemery.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Researcher at Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. Interested in saints cults and musical libraries.
Lisete Bull @lisetebull.bsky.social Recorders, Historical flutes, educator, foodie, mum, wife, lover of French Baroque, Rameau nut. lisetedasilvabull.com
Dr Rachael Durkin @rachaeldurkin.bsky.social Historian of musical instruments and Associate Professor at Northumbria University. UKRI Future Leaders Fellow 2024-28. Also on Instagram @RachaelDurkin. Views my own.
Répertoire International des Sources Musicales @rism.bsky.social Documenting musical sources worldwide since 1952.
Search free database at http://opac.rism.info and http://rism.online
Patrick Allies @patrickallies.bsky.social Musician. DPhil candidate at @ox.ac.uk. Visiting Artist and Researcher at KCL.
Artistic Director @SiglodeOroVocal.bsky.social
Musical Director @ICChamberChoir.bsky.social
Views my own.
mail[at]patrickallies.co.uk
@tinavadaneaux.bsky.social @tinavadaneaux.bsky.social
Robert Rawson @robertgrawson.bsky.social Professor of Music, founder member and artistic director of the award-winning ensemble The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen: 'Purveyors of uplifting and exhilarating music' — BBC Radio 3.
Robin Bigwood @robinbigwood.bsky.social Musician, producer
Fiona Maddocks @fionahmaddocks.bsky.social classical music critic The Observer. Etc
Petroc Trelawny @petroc.bsky.social Presenter BBC Radio 3, author of Trelawny’s Cornwall.
Benjamin Nicholas @benjaminnicholas.bsky.social Conductor of the Choir of Merton College, Oxford and the Oxford Bach Choir.
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social 🖼 🏺 World famous collections, from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art
🕙 Open every day 10am–5pm 🏛 linktr.ee/ashmoleanmuseum
EarlyMusicNewsOrg @earlymusicnewsorg.bsky.social EarlyMusicNews.Org's mission is to help popularize and disseminate news of the "Early Music"/HIP (Historically Informed Performance) genre on an international scale.
Music in the Round @musicintheround.bsky.social One of the UK's leading promoters of chamber music
Based in Sheffield at the unique Playhouse at The Crucible
- Box Office 0114 249 6000
www.musicintheround.co.uk/whats-on
Toby Carr @tobycarr.bsky.social Lutes, guitars, nonsense.
Early Music America @earlymusicamerica.bsky.social A nonprofit service org supporting the field of #earlymusic and its community in the Americas.
https://linktr.ee/earlymusicamerica
Waltham Forest Community Choir @wfcc.bsky.social Friendly, self funded local choir for people living and working in Waltham Forest.
Toronto Early Music Centre @earlymusicto.bsky.social Toronto Early Music Centre is a registered charity founded 1984 to support and promote an interest in historical performance, “early music,” and the activities of musicians, singers, teachers, makers/builders of historical instruments (Toronto, Ontario)
Early Music Forum Scotland @emfscotland.bsky.social The Early Music Forum of Scotland (Reg. charity SC054718) brings together singers, players, listeners and instrument makers from around Scotland with an interest in the medieval, renaissance and baroque periods. Join us! https://www.emfscotland.org.uk
The Vauxhall Band @thevauxhallband.bsky.social Period instrument ensemble, London.
Bringing historic music from Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens back to life.
www.thevauxhallband.com
Nitin Sawhney @nitinsawhney.bsky.social I guess my short CV is: Albums, scores, producer, DJ, booker prize judge 2024, Ivor Novello lifetime achievement award, 9 hon. doctorates, patron PRS foundation, 24 awards and a CBE
George Hall @georgehallmusic.bsky.social Busy writer on classical music and opera for The Stage, BBC Music Magazine, Opera & many others: also a (very minor) composer and pianist (of the fourth rank). We need the arts more and more: in the words of Dostoyevsky, 'Beauty shall save the world'.
Scottish Chamber Orchestra @scomusic.bsky.social Inspiring and connecting with people of all ages.
The English Concert @englishconcert.bsky.social "The best Baroque orchestra in the business" (The i)
Find out more: https://englishconcert.co.uk/
B'Rock Orchestra @brockorchestra.bsky.social 🎶 One of today’s most successful and forward-thinking period orchestras with the Baroque era at heart
Classic FM @classicfm.com The UK’s favourite classical music station. Ask your smart speaker to “play Classic FM” or listen on Global Player.
Leicester International Music Festival @leicsmusicfest.bsky.social World-class chamber music in Leicester, UK.
Annual festival in the third week of September.
12 Lunchtime Concerts on Thursdays, October - April.
Spitalfields Music @spitsmusic.bsky.social We bring artists, audiences and communities together so that everyone can find, explore & share extraordinary music in one of the most vibrant areas of London.
linktr.ee/spitsmusic
AAM @aam.co.uk Academy of Ancient Music. https://linktr.ee/AAMorchestra
Stile Antico @stileantico.co.uk Early music vocal ensemble, recording for Decca Classics. Represented by Ikon Arts. ‘Breathtaking freshness, vitality and balance' (NYT).
www.stileantico.co.uk
First Hand Records @firsthandrecords.bsky.social Exciting new recordings • Fascinating historical issues • Exemplary productions
Continuo Connect @continuoconnect.bsky.social 𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 𝗢𝗙 𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗟𝗬 𝗠𝗨𝗦𝗜𝗖
🎻 Event listings | festivals | artists | features
💡 A Continuo Foundation initiative
🔗 https://www.continuoconnect.com
Wigmore Hall @wigmore-hall.org.uk "The leading international home of chamber music" (The Times) 💫
Find out more about us here ➡️ https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/
Londinium @londiniumchoir.bsky.social Leading London chamber choir directed by Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social. Latest album 'Every Living Creature: choral music by Kenneth Leighton' released by SOMM Recordings.
https://www.londinium-voices.org.uk
English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble @ecse1610.bsky.social Leading UK-based period instrument ensemble with a host of recordings and recitals to our name.
www.ecse.co.uk
Guildhall School of Music & Drama @guildhallschool.bsky.social A vibrant, international community of musicians, actors and production artists in the heart of the City of London.
St Albans Bach Choir @stalbansbachchoir.bsky.social Established in 1924, directed by William Fox.
https://www.stalbansbachchoir.org.uk/
Aurora Orchestra @auroraorchestra.bsky.social Playing all the notes since 2005. Proud creators of Aurora Classroom, helping teachers teach music with confidence.
Come and say hello https://linktr.ee/auroraorchestra
I Fagiolini @ifagiolini.bsky.social Robert Hollingworth. Directs solo-voice ensemble I Fagiolini since 1986. 26 CDs, quite a lot of films, the Choral Chihuahua podcast and SingTheScore. Teaches at UofYork and runs Stour Music. ifagiolini.com
Royal Philharmonic Society @royalphilsoc.bsky.social
Bristol Classical Players @bristolclassical.bsky.social Formed in 2008, we are a 50-70 piece symphony orchestra performing exciting concerts in Bristol and surrounding areas.
www.bristolclassicalplayers.com
Daily Bach @dailybach.bsky.social Follow me for short excursions back into time with a daily dose of the father of (classical) music, J.S. Bach.
Every day a random BWV# is chosen, some will be familiar, some need a good dusting, short and long, sacred and secular. But all will be Bach!
La Nuova Musica @lanuovamusica.bsky.social Storytellers in live and recorded experiences, under the direction of David Bates. Cohesive, driven and unmistakably alive.
“Surely Britain’s most exciting Baroque orchestra, conducted with total commitment by David Bates” The Guardian
Music at Oxford @musicatoxford.bsky.social Oxford's international concert series, featuring classical, jazz, folk, film and more.
www.musicatoxford.com
Jo Harris Trumpet @joharristrumpet.bsky.social Classical trumpet player with a 💖 for solo and chamber projects. 🎺 Listen Here: https://lnk.to/ShackletonsCross 🎧
Clive Paget @clivepaget.bsky.social Writer on classical music, opera, theatre, anything really. Guardian, Musical America and Limelight reviewer. Proud Border Terrier owner (sorry, co-parent)
nonclassical @nonclsscl.bsky.social Music promoter, record label and events producer presenting the best new classical, experimental and electronic music.
https://www.nonclassical.co.uk/
@bojancicic.bsky.social @bojancicic.bsky.social
The Elysian Singers @elysiansingers.bsky.social The Elysian Singers, based in London under musical director Sam Laughton, is one of the UK’s leading chamber choirs.
Beauty for Ashes, our latest album on Signum Classics, premieres 6 works by women, 6 by men - and has won 5-star reviews.
The Marais Project & Elysian Fields @maraisproject.bsky.social Music for the viola da gamba - acoustic & electric. Runner, swimmer, mother + sometime composer. Sydney, Australia, but performing across the globe. Both groups founded by me, Jenny Eriksson.
Links - https://linktr.ee/TheMaraisProjectElysianFields
RTÉ Concert Orchestra @rteco.rte.ie Versatility and virtuosity 🎻
All sorts of music, all played with commitment and style.
Your Public Service Media, Your Orchestra 🎼
www.rte.ie/co
Presto Music @prestomusic.bsky.social Your home for classical & jazz recordings, sheet music, books, instruments and more. Discover, stream, and shop with us – trusted editorial, reviews and fantastic customer service. Based in Royal Leamington Spa, UK - shipping worldwide.
Delphian Records @delphianrecords.com Gramophone Award-winning classical/comtemporary record label operating from Edinburgh.
Our catalogue is curated to inspire the adventurous 🚀
🎙️ www.delphianrecords.com
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