@BBCProms 19:30 Mon 18 Aug 2025 Royal Albert Hall Sir Mark Elder conducts BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, massed choirs and four star soloists in Delius’s A Mass for Life: bbc.co.uk/events/ej5fbp

This Chandos Records release was Limelight 's Editor's Choice! Congrats! 🎉🎉 It features internationally acclaimed Norwegian cellist Jonathan Aasgaard, with some rarely recorded works. Available now: lnk.to/CHSA5266

Franz Lehár (born #OTD in 1870) is famous for his operetta The Merry Widow. He stayed in Austria during WWII, refusing to involve himself with politics but benefitting financially from Hitler’s promotion of his operetta. holocaustmusic.ort.org/politics-and-p…

Samson François was born #OTD 101 years ago. A pianist of genius, a unique voice, an artist with an unlimited imagination, he was one of the greatest interpreters of Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, and Ravel.

It was a beautiful end to the day here in Blackpool tonight. #Blackpool #sunset #Blackpooltower #Blackpoolbeach #northpier #clouds #visitblackpool

A privilege to listen to the 82 year old Daniel Roth, titulaire emerite of St Sulpice, Paris, on the Cavaille-Coll organ at which he followed for almost 40 years in the footsteps of Widor &Dupre. How nice to play some Couperin, plus Bach, Franck and Vierne. #Saintsulpice #Paris

Some other masterpieces by Aristide Cavaille-Coll: at La Madeleine, played by Camille Saint-Saens, and at Notre Dame, home to Louis Vierne and Pierre Cochereau, which has - quite literally - recently risen like Phoenix from the ashes. #cavaillecoll #lamadeleine #notredame #paris

I was at @mediacityuk for the live performance of these works by the American composer Edward MacDowell during the recording sessions for this album with the @bbcphilharmonic and the fantastic #JohnWilson in September 2023. Can't wait for vol.2! #edwardmacdowell #bbcphilharmonic

❤️A must-listen: Ina Boyle's beautiful Symphony No.1 "Glencree" with the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by our late, dear friend Ronald Corp OBE, on BBC Radio 3 Breakfast. ❤️A touching tribute to Ronald. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

This morning’s thunderstorm over Blackpool ⚡️🌩️ 📸 Dave Nelson Photography

Here is finally a less superficial count of R. B.’s #Glastonbury enterprise, and a better insight of how revolutionary it may have been if times and circumstances would have allowed it. What’s needed now are more performances and recordings of his (often still unperformed) works.

These pieces have been unearthed and edited by -DrDrKatharina-Uhde-, daughter of my very dear first piano teacher, the late Prof. Michael Uhde.

A thread for each Vaughan Williams work, to celebrate the music and recordings as I listen to them. This one is for the Concerto for Oboe and Strings. Written in 1943 - 1944 for Léon Goossens this work is firmly but not exclusively placed within Vaughan Williams’s Pastoral…

Listen again to 'A Mass of Life' from the BBC Proms: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

A great piece of music and a fitting homage to this beautiful part of the country.

Premiered #OTD in 1914, the 2-act opera, The Immortal Hour, by English composer, Rutland Boughton. It launched initially in a piano version at the inaugural Glastonbury Festivals. open.spotify.com/album/2uEYlfDw… #britsymphyear

#OTD 1958 Ralph Vaughan Williams Society #RVW died - Sir Adrian Boult due to be recording the 9th symphony read out a heart felt tribute before the recording began