David Cloke

@Stephen74977713 Congratulations @Strewthieruthie Hope you had a lovely evening! 🥂

Celebrating a very special birthday for our friend Ruth Wyman @operahollandpark. A book of operatic memories featuring the companies and institutions she had supported and her many friends in the world of opera. The lady is a legend.

SUNDAY LONG THREAD For more than 50 years, a working telephone stood alone in the Mojave Desert. It was miles from the nearest building and 12 miles from the nearest paved road. Then the internet discovered its number. And the phone began ringing from all over the world. 1/n

@DavidCloke @ThreeChoirs @hyperionrecords Lovely. Some of these songs featured. There was quite a bit about his friendship with the poet Bill Harvey, who is buried at Minsterworth up the road from the farm where we stayed. I walk Baxter along the river there & you can see the church in this photo.

@LucasRosemary @ThreeChoirs Title of a @hyperionrecords CD of Gurney songs by Paul Agnew: hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CD…

Day 8 @ThreeChoirs Sydney Philharmonia Choirs singing British & Australian sacred pieces & Severn Meadows, a narrated biopic of Ivor Gurney with poems & songs set by him sung by James Gilchrist.

Glyndebourne has assembled a FANTASTIC cast for Ariadne auf Naxos, and their new production is far superior to their previous one. Go see it (there or at the Proms) or tune in to Radio 3 to hear it on the 19th August!

The difference between "There used to be hot summers too." and climate crisis.

This is the blue plaque on the house in Gt Portland St just around the corner from us at BBC Broadcasting House where Carl Maria von Weber died 200 yrs ago on 5th June 1826. He's our Proms Composer in Record Review @BBCRadio3 today - 5 Essential Weber Recordings from 1430...and👇

@andrewCDmcg @BBCRadio3 And this from Sendlinger Strasse in Munich

My post on the only Wren church outside of London (it’s in Staffordshire). Link below! 👇

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Mount Caburn, Eric Ravilious, 1935. It depicts an area of the South Downs (now @sdnpa) in East #Sussex near to Glynde. The original artwork is in the collection of @TownerGallery.

@jessicaduchen Fascinating. Rather appropriately, Connor Fogel played Liszt’s Remeniscences de Lucia di Lammermoor on In Tune last Thursday.

Here's more of the iceberg of which the tip was in our Proms interval discussion the other day. open.substack.com/pub/jessicaduc…

ℹ️ The 08:47 Sheerness to Sittingbourne & 09:23 Sittingbourne to Sheerness have been cancelled because of a bull on the line. Buses have been arranged leaving Sheerness at 09:25 & Sittingbourne at 09:30. The bull is now clear of the railway and all other trains will run normally

@jsdhenderson She’s also wonderful in the Alexander Gibson recording of Elgar’s The Spirit of England, thrilling, vibrant and with a suitably yearning quality.

I only heard her twice, but she was fabulous both times - especially as Teresa in Benvenuto Cellini.

We caught up with Scott Brightwell and Mal Leadbetter, to find out the about the progress of the works, what we're doing, why we're doing it and how our passengers can get around during the closure. @Se_Railway @networkrail #CharingCrossClosure #WaterlooEast

The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. @andyburnham, the arts and culture MUST be part of it. We've launched an urgent petition to make sure the arts can play their part in revitalising the nation 🌱 Add your name ✏️ campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-y…

Scotland raised its top income tax rate to 48% to make the rich pay more. New HMRC data suggests the result may have been the opposite: Scotland collected about £22m less. We can't be sure, but Scotland may have fallen over the Laffer curve. 🧵:

Here’s why India’s cockroach protests were such a success — The young leaders are eloquent and organised, and now they know what victory looks like. That could be a huge headache for Modi: They may have just produced an echelon of homegrown Mamdanis theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@RomaPete Thanks for the report. Very reassuring. Hope you enjoyed the Egyptian Helen. Saw a concert performance of it in Frankfurt with Andreas Schager who was very loud!

@DavidCloke @fisherctrbard @wigmore_hall On the whole I’d say yes, though Tristan is a rather more nuanced role than Menelaus. But I’d say he definitely has the instrument.

This afternoon the annual pilgrimage to @fisherctrbard for a production of Die äegyptische Helena, a Strauss rarity I’ve only heard once before. Tbh I hope it’s sung in German but I’m not sure! Tx3 to all!