#pitcam from last night's #ETOAmadigi in @SnapeMaltings Thank you for an amazing run @ETOpera 🥳

One of the concerti I'll be exploring this season is one of the first I ever learned. Here's a clip of me performing Ravel's G major concerto aged 11.

2. When it's cold enough, you can see the birdsong in the air. Photos by Kathrin Swoboda.

I joined Hannah in the studio for this– catch up on Sounds and tuck into Bach, Rameau and lots lots more...

It’s today - come on down to @BoldTendencies. #BoldTendenciesLive, #BoldTendencies2024

My second cover story for @GramophoneMag and I couldn't be happier that I got to interview the one and only 🎻👑@RachPodger for it

#rpsawards ready! @royalphilsoc #storytelling @overcoatmedia bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001pmh… @overcoatmedia @mrmarkseow @Leoniespark @BBCRadio4

🌩️🇳🇴 Norway is preparing for the biggest storm in 30 years. A violent atlantic windstorm #Ingunn (named by the @Meteorologisk) is approaching across the Faroe island. A red warning for extremely strong gusts of wind is out in areas of Trøndelag and Nordland. Below are the satellite layers of the latest developments of the storm.🛰️

EASTERN CLASSICAL has been nominated for an RPS Award in the Storytelling category ! Buzzed for 5 March

Fascinating edition of The Early Music Show on @Radio3. Beijing baroque! @mrmarkseow

Sky Piece to Jesus Christ, 1965 During a concert, members of an orchestra are slowly wrapped in gauze bandages and thus eventually forced to stop playing their instruments.

In 2023, I made a whole load of programmes, learnt a lot of stuff, and worked with some amazing collaborators, many of whom I’m now lucky enough to call friends. 🤗 🧀 🌟 In the spirit of the season, I'm tooting my horn 📯📯

A picture of Cambridge every day since 2010. (No 5000) Tuesday 5th December 2023. So here it is - my final picture of uninterrupted daily photographs of Cambridge - 5,000 consecutive posts over 13 years. I’m sure you’ll forgive the fact that it wasn’t taken today but a week ago today when the full moon eased itself between the turrets of an illuminated King’s College Chapel. I knew the moment I pressed the shutter that I wanted it to be the last photograph of my daily pictures not just because this frame is undoubtedly the most recognisable view in Cambridge but because for me the full moon symbolises a moment of release and completion and a time to sit in the fullness of life and feel grateful for my blessings. The full moon is also associated with madness, of which I must have had a portion to have stuck with this for so long! I’d like to thank you all for your likes, comments and stories along the way - you have made A Cambridge Diary a heartwarming community and a place to share memories with Cambridge folk both from the town and the university. Most of all I’d like to thank everyone who has appeared in my pictures over the past thirteen years: the bikers, bowlers and buskers; the carpenters, choristers, clothiers and constables; the dancers, diners and dog-walkers; the entertainers and extras; the gardeners and graduates; the kayakers; the lecturers and lingerie models; the painters, parents, pensioners, porters, praelectors, proctors, professors and punters; the readers, revellers, rowers and runners; the scaffolders, scullers, singers, skateboarders, soldiers, stonemasons, strollers, students and swimmers; the tourists and touts; the walkers and workers. I’d also like to thank the cats, dogs, ducks, rabbits, squirrels and swans, and Queen Elizabeth I and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. To you all, my sincere thanks. Whilst this is my final daily picture it doesn’t mean the end of A Cambridge Diary as I’ll still be posting my pictures from five and ten years ago and I’m sure there will be the occasional new picture popping up now and then - just not every day. Oh, and I still have to walk home don’t I? Love to all Martin

When you grab your earpods at 6am on the way to the airport but they turn out to be dental floss 😭😭😭

Kurt Vonnegut's 8 rules for writing: ⁣ 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.⁣ ⁣ 2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.⁣ ⁣ 3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.⁣ ⁣ 4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.⁣ ⁣ 5. Start as close to the end as possible.⁣ ⁣ 6. Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them-in order that the reader may see what they are made of.⁣ ⁣ 7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.⁣ ⁣ 8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.⁣

Ahh @tomkellytenor making strong people cry since 2023

And this is why @PetrocTrelawny is the best. Mornings with @BBCRadio3 ☕

Earlier today we were on @mrmarkseow 's Early Music News, in the @BBCRadio3 programme The Early Music Show. Have a listen here! (It's under 2 min!) #InfiniteRefrain @RandallScotting @AAMorchestra @SignumRecords #LaurenceCummings @StageDoorAgency #Monteverdi #Baroque #GayLove

Be not melancholy but of a sanguine disposition. Hear @NaomiPaxton @alanna_skuse @michpfeffer @mrmarkseow & Nick Lane discuss the Humours, the healing power of music & the holistic possibilities of mitochondrial medicine bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gmq3y…