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Thoroughly Good Parish Circular: Thetford, Grimes and Reconciliation
In a week of unrest in a Norfolk town, a fiftieth-anniversary memory, and the difference between reaching for reconciliation and…
BBC Radio 3’s RAJAR Q2 2026: Breakfast Up, Unwind Up, Core Radio 3 Down
Core Radio 3 is down on its previous quarter, though its ‘brand extension’ sees a modest increase….
Podcast 237: Three Choirs 2026 at Gloucester with Grace Evangeline-Mason
A scrapbook in sound: voices, reflections and field recordings from Three Choirs Festival 2026 in Gloucester — a postcard from…
Review – Beethoven’s Mass in C at Three Choirs 2026
Let’s not split hairs over a wobbly fugue, this was jaw-dropping stuff from Sam Hudson, the Philharmonia and the Three…
Review – Songs Of the Sea – Three Choirs 2026
Stellar performances from Three Choirs Festival Youth Choir who thrived in Gloucester Cathedral’s generous acoustic…
Podcast 236: Cellist Guy Johnston on Britten’s Cello Symphony
Guy Johnston on Britten, the Proms, and neuroscience…
Review – King’s Lynn Festival at 75
In north Norfolk a music Festival in its 75th year could be doing more to honour the vision of its…
Podcast 235: Pianist and Composer Beatrice Nicholas
Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre isn’t a name many will recognise — despite an opera that reached the Paris stage…
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