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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New ruin-an-aria-with-one-change contender: "Oropesa's shattering aria 'Ah, mio cor' is a highlight, along with D'Angelo's wonderful 'Verdi prat' that he delivers while sitting in a tree."

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Londinium @londiniumchoir.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Friday 2 October - we mark the Festival of Britain 75th anniversary at St John's Waterloo with @colla-voce.bsky.social!Choral music from festival programmes sits alongside some surprising omissions, while tracing themes from the lost Lion & Unicorn pavilion www.londinium-voices.org.uk/events

'The Lion and the Unicorn' artwork showing original straw sculptures created for the pavilion.

Programme:
Charles Wood: Hail, Gladdening Light
Anon: Sumer is icumen in
Thomas Morley, arr. Andrew Griffiths: It was a lover and his lass
Henry Purcell: Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts
Gustav Holst: The Evening Watch
Hubert Parry: There is an old belief (from Songs of Farewell)
Christopher Tye: Omnes gentes, plaudite manibus
Benjamin Britten: Hymn to St Cecilia
Ethel Smyth: 1910
William Byrd: Assumpta est Maria
Howells: Salve Regina
Robert Ramsey: When David heard
Imogen Holst: A Hymne to Christ
William Mundy: O Lord, the Maker of all thing
Michael Tippett: Plebs Angelica
Peter Warlock: The Birds
Jim Clements: The Jabberwock
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Three Shakespeare Songs

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Imagine this being the literal best thing to do with your Saturday.

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Just home from an excellent @londiniumchoir.bsky.social tour to Aachen and Liège, at the end of which I was presented with this fine fellow, whose neglected oeuvre will be known to members of Kingston Choral Society, @ecse1610.bsky.social, veterans of Dartington, and others...

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Goodness, Tippett Plebs Angelica is good. Not sure how I've avoided it til now.

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Does anyone know any unaccompanied choral music which responds to the Suffragette movement? I'm aware of the Lucy Pankhurst piece but it doesn't hit the spot for me.

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Very excited to share Grétry's 'Zemire et Azor' tonight with our audience at Bampton Classical Opera. I think it's a very special little piece, full of colour and delight, and I've loved this process!

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Looking forward to a natter with Petroc Trelawny about our Bampton Classical Opera Grétry this evening on In Tune (BBC Radio 3). Listen in at around 6.15pm if you're able! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 3 - In Tune, Sean Shibe & Karim Sulayman in session

Live music from Sean Shibe and Karim Sulayman.

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

What a whining self-indulgent little s**t.

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Instead of the entire world having to buy earplugs, you could just, I don't know, turn the damn volume down? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Why are music fans choosing to wear ear plugs at festivals?

Ear plugs are becoming an increasingly popular accessory at music festivals.

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The fun thing about an opera based on Beauty and the Beast...

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

It is beyond me how Keir Starmer is out of a job but Rob Key is still in post.

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

This does not make proof-reading easier.

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Keir Starmer would make a great foreign sec...

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This Tube strike is just incomprehensible. Public sympathy will be at zero.

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

SE London might get noisy tonight!

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Rather a fun day leading a workshop for North East Early Music Forum based on last week's Ascension Vespers extravaganza - brilliant to see so many people enthused about lesser-known Monteverdi, and to staff it with everything from cornett to curtal to sackbut and most known varieties of recorder!

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

There are many who will not mourn, but I've just finished my last rehearsal in Maida Vale 2, and I will really miss this place, with all its history and quirks and ghosts.

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Super-excited for this on Saturday: an embarrassment of Venetian riches with @londiniumchoir.bsky.social, @ecse1610.bsky.social and Monteverdi String Band... absolutely wonderful music, especially the Selva morale 8-part Magnificat. Do come if you possibly can! www.londinium-voices.org.uk/events

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

We've had all the weather in Beckenham this morning, barring a tornado.

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

This morning's conundrum: is that the neighbours' drilling work or my daughter's bassoon practice?

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Never thought I'd be happy to see my council stay Tory.

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

An immortal piece of nominative determinism, after Blue Origin "was unable to get a satellite as far into orbit as intended." "Blue Origin's chief executive Dave Limp said the failure was caused by a lack of "sufficient thrust" in an engine."

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Maybe this explains why the PM didn't know about the vetting?

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Spent the day editing some Monteverdi on a tight schedule. It's fair to say that George wasn't entirely helpful. Ironically enough, a Magnificat...

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Rehearsals start today for this @londiniumchoir.bsky.social extravaganza, and I can't wait! Ascension Vespers to be performed two days after Ascension, with fabulous winds and strings from @ecse1610.bsky.social and the Monteverdi String Band.

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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

To celebrate, how about the exuberant finale of Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra? Important to have Iván Fischer, long an outspoken opponent of Orbán, conducting his superb Budapest Festival Orchestra. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV9d...

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Bartók: Concerto For Orchestra, BB 123 (Sz.116) : 5. Finale (Pesante - Presto)

YouTube video by Budapest Festival Orchestra - Topic

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

10/10, no notes. "Ceasefires are always good news," says Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. But he says his government "will not applaud those who set the world ablaze just because they turn up with a bucket"

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Here are some kitten pictures to offset the inexorable spiral of doom. Including the Triangular Kitten ™

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Rounding off Easter Sunday by listening to Rattle's wonderful recent livestream of Mahler Resurrection Symphony from the Elbphilharmonie. Preceded by Purcell, and the glorious Schumann Nachtlied I conducted last month. www.youtube.com/live/JZLteE1...

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Symphonieorchester & Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Sir Simon Rattle | Elbphilharmonie LIVE

YouTube video by Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

For anyone who needs to see kittens in their feed...

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I mean I was staying at Travelodge this week (for my sins) and my key regularly stopped working; when I asked for it to be made to work, I was never asked for any ID or even to confirm my name... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Travelodge probes room access reports after Maidenhead assault

Jo Boydell says the hotel is carrying out a review after guests reported people entering their rooms.

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