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Having a spectacular time back home with a wonderful team. This is a GRAND festival - and only 8 years old! If you like early music, fancy drinking mead & dancing to the OG Carmina Burana until late, or sitting round the castle hearths in the dark being a troubadour, book it in.

Did YOU watch Have I Got News For You tonight? Do YOU want to find out what Evensong is? Well, have I got news for you... choralevensong.org

The #OrderofMalta and the #UnitedKingdom establish official relations and strengthen bilateral cooperation with the signing of a strategic Memorandum of Understanding. orderofmalta.int/news/order-of-…

The River Cam in autumn's grace Reflects the sky in soft embrace The willows bow with quiet cheer As golden leaves fall far and near 📷 Lloyd Mann

Toby Ward Music at St John’s, Holland Park The singing was truly other worldly. Those not able to be with us have missed something very special. Thank you to all our singers and especially Toby Ward who brought the liturgy to life. Music like this doesn’t happen often or by accident.

Any Bishop who is prepared to endorse this skull-measuring nonsense should at least have the decency to visit their congregations and tell them they hate them to their faces.

A privilege to host the #charityfundraising #CarolService for THE LADY GARDEN FOUNDATION last night. Superb music from our choral scholars and Toby Ward Thank you to all who came

This is just fabulous. Warlock’s epic pastiche of Renaissance dances - the Capriol Suite - as a Mass setting. Just Brilliant. Definitely doing this with Music at St John’s, Holland Park 😍

Breakfast is live BBC Radio 3. Today a new setting of the Coventry Carol w/BBC Singers, Dickensian Muppets, Joseph Calleja sings Donizetti, the six year old Richard Strauss writes a seasonal lullaby and a sculpture by Richmond Barthé inspires William Grant Still.

A solemn Requiem Mass will be celebrated for the soul of the late Holy Father on his "month's mind", Wednesday 21 May 2025. 📌 Our Lady of the Assumption & St Gregory, Warwick Street ⏰ 6:30pm

Henry VIII on Tour is out now, DELPHIAN! 🥳 Hear the sound of Henry on tour: at prayer, play and in private. Harp, lute, organ (including the revolting Regal) - and of course choral works - mixing the sounds of Henry’s ‘riding chapel’ with the ‘local choir’ he visited.

If you like unfamiliar English 16thC choral music, give this a try. It’s Rasar(Rasor)’s only surviving work in a new recording under the super direction of Toby Ward open.spotify.com/track/5EBihKoS…

A valuable window onto the sound world of the Tudor Court on progress: Henry VIII on Tour from Ensemble Pro Victoria & Toby Ward on DELPHIAN, with Toby Carr, Aileen Henry, Magnus Williamson, New Vocal Ensemble Henry on Tour . My record review: planethugill.com/2025/06/a-valu…

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