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From our UK regional touring to our work here with the students of Acland Burghley School, we’re always striving to keep music alive and accessible for all. We are redefining what it means to be an orchestra in the 2020s – and can’t do it without your support. Find out the ways that you can support and become a part of this story below.

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  • Composers

Journey's End

Friday 3 March 2023

Joanna 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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  • Composers

Assembling the Mass in B Minor

Thursday 16 March 2023

In 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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  • Composers

Bach's Mass in B Minor in New Colours

Friday 17 March 2023

In 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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  • Acland Burghley community
  • Artists

Introducing our next Rising Stars of the Enlightenment

Friday 31 March 2023

Meet 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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  • Southbank Centre 2023-24

Beginnings and endings.

Tuesday 25 April 2023

How 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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  • Acland Burghley community

17,967 reasons to be cheerful

Wednesday 25 October 2023

We’ve just released our 2022/23 ‘Annual Review’ of our Education work. Discover the impact we’ve been having from Durham to Plymouth.
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  • Composers

Christmas time, cantatas and wine.

Wednesday 18 September 2024

Christmas wasn't all stollen and Glühwein for an 18th Century town music director. Joanna Wyld investigates the tensions smouldering below the surface in Bach's Leipzig.
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  • Composers

Composing from the Old World to the New

Wednesday 18 September 2024

Leah Broad explores the challenges faced by composers such as Jean Sibelius, Sergei Rachmaninov and Edvard Grieg as they transitioned from traditional to modern music in a changing world.
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  • Composers

Resurrecting Bach's Easter Oratorio

Wednesday 18 September 2024

Joanna Wyld explores Bach's Easter Oratorio shedding light on the tensions and triumphs of his musical journey.
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  • OAE Musicians

The C90: Sounds of 2024

Friday 22 December 2023

A playlist highlighting the music and musicians that we'll be bringing to the stage in 2024... and maybe a teaser or two.

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