The letter we wrote to Theresa Villiers Matthew Offord & @mikewfreer

The Night Shift is back tonight at The George Tavern, Shadwell! Come and join is for some Mozart, Beethoven, Druschetzky and Schubert, or catch it online youtu.be/ELmIZouQLKg via YouTube

We're in Cambridge for Cambridge Music Festival tonight, performing Bach's Violin Concerto in A minor, with soloist Bojan Cicic, and Cantata 'Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen', as well as Vivaldi's Gloria, with King's College Choir and conductor Daniel Hyde. cambridgemusicfestival.co.uk/events/choir-o…

Glorious work La Nuova Musica All thanks to Leo Duarte Lucy Crowe Thomas Gould 𝕚 𝕚 𝕕𝕒𝕧𝕚𝕖𝕤 and the whole team! IMG Artists I am sure we can get it higher!!..

Our future is not for sale! Rt Hon Lord Alok Sharma  Boris Johnson we need a strong commitment for a complete fossil fuel phase-out & more finance to support vulnerable nations at #COP26! We won't accept anything less. #StopFailingUs

BAROQUE SS (24-31 July): Laurence Cummings (voice & continuo) will be joined by Bojan Cicic (upper strings), Mark Caudle (lower strings), Leo Duarte (woodwind) and Mary Collings (baroque dance & stagecraft).

This project is probably the one that I’m most excited about. Completing Mozart Piano concertos cycle with AAM and Robert Levin, started in the 90s and being finalised over the course of the next 18 months.

‘This is a stunning collection of Handel opera numbers. For originality, risk-taking and erudition, it towers above its predecessors … This project is a heroic achievement for all involved.’ Thank you BBC Music Magazine! Recording of the Month *****

Handel's Unsung Heroes: davidbates La Nuova Musica on PENTATONE focus on virtuoso instrumental solos that Handel wrote for his theatre band + Leo Duarte Joe Qiu Thomas Gould Lucy Crowe 𝕚 𝕚 𝕕𝕒𝕧𝕚𝕖𝕤 Christine Rice. My record review: planethugill.com/2021/12/virtuo…

A date for your diaries...

So called Natural England we pay your wages & to purportedly look after our wildlife . . . what are you hiding ? Tell us whether this bird had its wings pulled off whilst it was alive & tell us who you are really working for - because it’s not me Please RT …ptorpersecutionscotland.wordpress.com/2021/12/17/hen…

Feeling extremely honoured to be one of the Gramophone's Editor's Choice for January 2022! Thank you Gramophone gramophone.co.uk/review/handel-… gramophone.co.uk/review/handel-…

I’ve just stumbled across a Tickle-Fiddle Gents live recording from Utrecht around 2014 with some stunning oboe playing from Leo Duarte and bassooning from Nat Harrison playing a double concerto by Reichenauer. Time to revive this programme!

An opera rarity this evening LondonHandelFestival Fernando Rei di Castaglia. Performed brilliantly by Opera Settecento Leo Duarte 👏👏👏

Two of my favourites! 🌻 theguardian.com/environment/20…

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Email correspondence between Chris Loder MP + Dorset Police & Crime Commissioner David Sidwick re: poisoned eagle. There appears to be some correspondence 'missing' from the FoI response I've been sent. Hmm... raptorpersecutionuk.org/2022/04/29/ema… Chris Loder Dorset PCC #Dorset

Look . . . the ‘custodians of the the countryside’ have been at it again . It’s not just the scale of intolerant killing it’s their medieval mindset that then wants to hang up the pitiful corpses in some sort of savage display which makes a mockery of ‘National Park’ .

*Airpunch* Another BIG day for our two-year Cool Oak eco-campaign to improve Brent Reservoir (Welsh Harp). Installation of 4 new planted nesting islands for the locally-threatened Great Crested Grebe. Props to Canal & River Trust London & SE and Biomatrix Water 👊🌿 🦢

A little bit of Bach if you need a pick-me-up youtu.be/pS54HPCS5Rk?si…