David Hill

Eine Leipziger Tradition: @Gewandhaus & #Thomanerchor mit Bachs „Johannes-Passion“ in der Thomaskirche #Leipzig. Am 02./03. APR 2026 ist es wieder soweit - die Johannes-Passion BWV 245 in der 2. Fassung von 1725 unter der Leitung von Thomaskantor Andreas Reize! @accentusmusic

@holysmoke Apology accepted Damian, thank you. My thanks to Christopher and others too for their very kind words. I fully understand and appreciate that you care a great deal about Radio 3, here’s hoping you might like what you hear in the future.

@BurtonCfb79ten @ZGKronbergs @holysmoke A fitting successor to Suzy Klein

Join @iestyn_davies and a star-studded lineup this weekend at @wigmore_hall in a celebration of the music of John Dowland 🎵 Featuring talented performers who have been interviewed for our website, including Thomas Dunford, @MaryCBevan and Iestyn himself 👀

In the Russian press, no criticism of war on Ukraine. But an editorial slamming restrictions in Russia: “Where's the cut-off point, the line in our personal & collective experience we’re not prepared to cross, where we would say no, we can’t live without this, we don’t want to?”

@houghhough @JuilliardSchool Sorry to hear of your loss, Stephen. A wonderful musician, as you say.

My dearest friend, Robert White, left us yesterday. I was with him only a couple of hours before he died as he sank into a deeper and deeper rest. He was a great musician and singer, a devoted teacher @JuilliardSchool a generous host, a wicked raconteur, a perfect dinner companion, wildly funny, deeply sensitive to beauty of all kinds. The album we made together many years ago for @hyperionrecords remains one of my favourites. New York will never be the same.youtu.be/45xCtXFTw0k?si…

A lovely day, in every way, ⁦@kingscambridge⁩ meeting lots of people before starting a term from April to July as acting Director of Music. The choir sounds wonderful and it is a privilege to have been asked to do this by their amazing Director Dan Hyde.

Read my review of Bach’s St Matthew Passion at the Royal Festival Hall with @TheBachChoir, London Youth Choir, Florilegium, conductor David Hill, and soloists Toby Spence, Neal Davies, Lucy Crowe, Carolyn Dobbin, Benjamin Hulet and Christopher Purves. nick-holmes-music.com/2026/03/11/the…

@MannGeorgia @BBCRadio3 @Spectator_LIFE Completely right, Georgia. @BBCRadio3 is leading the way and I appreciate all that you and others achieve each and every day. Thank you.

Morning All! I’m on my way back from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 so not on @bbcradio3 this morning. I wrote this for The Spectator ⁦@Spectator_LIFE⁩ Please read. I felt the need to respond to a certain line of criticism… spectator.com/article/stop-t…

Fantastic to join @TheBachChoir to celebrate their 150th anniversary with a spectacular performance of St Matthew Passion @southbankcentre with @davidhconductor and beautiful singing from Toby Spence, Neil Davies, Lucy Crowe, Carolyn Dobbin, Benjamin Hulett, Christopher Purves

@RachThePenitent @WAbbeyChoir This is so sad. A wonderful person, singer, teacher, mentor and friend to so many people. RIP.

The Abbey is profoundly saddened by the sudden death of Robert (Berty) Rice, a cherished member of the St Margaret’s Consort and valued Deputy Lay Vicar for the Choir of Westminster Abbey. His death comes as an immense shock, and the loss we feel as a community is beyond measure.

Last few tickets left for our performance @southbankcentre of #Bach's masterpiece St Matthew Passion with @TheBachChoir and top soloists under the baton of @davidhconductor this Sunday 🗓️8th March at 11am Book now on shorturl.at/iiCrp #baroquemusic #musicinlondon

A rewarding disc of secular choral music by Herbert Howells from Ikon and @davidhconductor @hyperionrecords @HowellsSociety My review for @MusicWebInt is at musicwebinternational.com/2026/02/howell…

Tickets are going fast for our annual performance of #Bach's masterpiece St Matthew Passion with our friends @TheBachChoir under the baton of @davidhconductor on 8th March at 11am Book now on shorturl.at/iiCrp #baroquemusic

Not long to go now…. do apply! Ripon is a great place to develop your skill set and move up on the cathedral music ladder!

The only Winter Olympics footage you need to see today.

Happy Wednesday everyone! Join us @BBCRadio3 9.30 for Ravel’s Tombeau de Couperin to start, arguably the first ever 🎸 Concerto & in the Playlister we’re asking where to from Distant Glacier, some of Vaughan Williams’ music for Scott of the Antarctic 🥶 📻❤️

@aaronsharpe @LNER Thanks for the swift reply. It surely means LNER is penalised for punctuality.

@davidhconductor @LNER It's planned as pick up only so not advertised. It's very important to LNER that their staff don't use it so it's not advertised. And due to tocs going into public ownership ORCATS revenue isn't going to convince them otherwise.

Just wondering @LNER why stopping at Stevenage keeps happening on a direct train to Peterborough? As a result it added more than 10 mins to the journey and waiting several minutes more.

@johnamonaco @BestBuy Great post, and couldn’t agree more. Just wanted to add that part of the architecture in your photo is the hideous organ case, obviously designed to fit with the overall aesthetic. Organ cases can and should be things of beauty in themselves.