We didn't actually get to play any of her! We're doing her ATB John Donne setting this year, which I'm excited about!

This was fun and the Anna Meredith, Tarik O'Regan and Cheryl Frances-Hoad we mention are particularly great.

Thanks so much! A fun chat to get to have!

It's been a pretty melting day in Scottish Arts World but this is unequivocally brilliant news.

Such a privilege to be small part of this coming into being.

2 violinists, a cellist, and a harpsichordist from Dunedin Consort play trio sonatas in an Austrian coffee house.

Impeccable Sunday morning trio sonatas from John Butt & @dunedinconsort.bsky.social.
In an echt Viennese coffee house. Natürlich.

This is a lovely read. Very similar thoughts about fruit proxies. I ended up suggesting that it should by musical interval as found on a standard concert grand...

So glad you enjoyed it! What a remarkable piece.

Concerti veneziani per oboe Using a rare original instrument made by Giovanni Maria Anciuti (the most remarkable woodwind instrument maker active in Italy in the first half of the eighteenth century) and dated 1730, Alfredo Bern...

Listening again to this stupendous disc this morning.

A 1730 instrument sounding electric and some of the best liner notes I've ever read.

outhere-music.com/en/albums/co...

Programme for the Friday of Deep Time, with Rie Nakajima's found objects in the background.

@fruitmarket.bsky.social for the Friday night I didn't know I needed.

Rie Nakajima's The Detail of the Whole so enveloping and moving.

I'm so glad you're enjoying! When we did the live gigs, we leant into this with Nardus choosing "Se vago rio fra sassi" from Aminta as the encore. Turns up later as the siren song in Rinaldo...