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Kensington Symphony Orchestra @kso.org.uk · 16/09/2026

🎶 Smith Square Hall • 12 October Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 3, Tarrodi’s Wildwood and Torke’s Javelin — a night of colour, energy and drama. 🎟️ Tickets: www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/event/rachma...

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Rachmaninov's Symphony No.3 - Sinfonia Smith Square

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Kensington Symphony Orchestra @kso.org.uk · 19/02/2026

We're back at @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social on Monday 16 March for a lovely concert of Berlioz, Dvořák & Brahms with guest conductor Matt Scott Rogers. Hope you can join us! kso.org.uk/event/brahms...

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Kensington Symphony Orchestra @kso.org.uk · 14/11/2025

🧙‍♀️ We're also performing James MacMillan's The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, about a woman burnt as a witch in Scotland in 1662 ✝️ Get a programme to find out what inspired him to compose this beautiful, brutal piece – the "requiem that Isobel Gowdie never had"

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Kensington Symphony Orchestra @kso.org.uk · 13/11/2025

🌊 Doreen Carwithen's Bishop Rock, depicting the westernmost lighthouse in the British Isles, is full of the dramatic writing also heard in her film scores 🏎️ Meanwhile, our programme notes look at how Ruth Gipps's string writing echoes the pace of the zippy sports car she loved to drive

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Kensington Symphony Orchestra @kso.org.uk · 11/11/2025

Tickets are available here www.sinfoniasmithsq.org.uk/event/kensin... It’s a 3pm start on Sunday afternoon!

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Gipps: Symphony No. 4 - Sinfonia Smith Square

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Kensington Symphony Orchestra @kso.org.uk · 11/11/2025

🧍‍♀️🧍‍♀️🧍‍♀️We’re back at @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social on Sunday afternoon for a performance full of girl power 📘 Grab a programme to learn more about the unfairly overlooked 20th-century British composers Doreen Carwithen and Ruth Gipps

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Kensington Symphony Orchestra @kso.org.uk · 13/09/2025

Our 2025-26 season in full. We bring you music by John Adams & James MacMillan; Brahms, Copland, Dvořák, Grieg, Nielsen & Stravinsky as well as lesser know pieces by Elfrida Andrée, Doreen Carwithen & Ruth Gipps

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Chris Astles @castles73.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Lunch in the beautiful Italianate town of #Zamosc, #małopolska, #Poland With @guyraybould.bsky.social

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Kensington Symphony Orchestra @kso.org.uk · 02/06/2025

Next concert on Monday 30 June at @cadoganhall.bsky.social Lyadov, Shostakovich and Rachmaninov's Paganini Variations with recent #BBC #YoungMusician finalist Firoze Madon 🎫 cadoganhall.com/whats-on/ken...

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Kensington Symphony Orchestra @kso.org.uk · 14/05/2025

7️⃣ We're back at @sinfoniasmithsq.bsky.social on Monday 19 May to perform Bruckner's monumental Symphony No.7 – the work that finally won him acclaim ⚰️ Get a programme to find out how Richard Wagner's death influenced the piece, including a true symphonic innovation…

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Premier Classical @premierclassical.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Congrats to the Festen team on winning Best New Opera Production at the Olivier Awards 🎉 Natalya Romaniw accepted with composer Mark-Anthony Turnage & librettist Lee Hall, wearing Jenny Packham 💙 Catch her this May at the Royal Opera as Sieglinde in Die Walküre! 🎭  📸: Joanne Davidson (img 4)

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Kensington Symphony Orchestra @kso.org.uk · 26/03/2025

🪐 With Nasa's stranded astronauts back on Earth, it's KSO's turn to launch into space, as we perform Holst's masterpiece at Fairfield Halls on Saturday

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Chris Astles @castles73.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I’m clearly pleased with my bass.

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Kensington Symphony Orchestra @kso.org.uk · 21/03/2025

The bass oboe is in the house ready for The Planets next week 🪐 Come and see it in the wild! 🎟️ www.fairfield.co.uk/events/kensi...

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Chris Astles @castles73.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

“I have a view, I have a view. “This is my son,” said the old man; “his name’s George. He has a view too.” “Ah,” said Miss Bartlett #Florence #Firenze. With @guyraybould.bsky.social

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Kensington Symphony Orchestra @kso.org.uk · 25/02/2025

Next concert: Saturday 29 March at 6PM at Fairfield Halls - Music by Foulds, Tippett, Patrick Hawes, Vaughan Williams and culminating in Holst's perennially popular piece for large orchestra - The Planets 🎫 www.fairfield.co.uk/events/kensi...

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Guy Raybould @guyraybould.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Getting ready to play possibly the most beautiful tune in all Shostakovich tomorrow

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Guy Raybould @guyraybould.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

31 January over the past decade with @castles73.bsky.social: 1. Bocas del Toro, Panama 🇵🇦 2015 2. Eating fat-bottomed ants in Barichara, Colombia 🇨🇴 2017 3. At Rihanna’s house, Barbados 🇧🇧 2019 4. Being in Paris as the UK left the EU 🇪🇺 😢 2020

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Kensington Symphony Orchestra @kso.org.uk · 24/01/2025

Concert tomorrow night at @southbankcentre.bsky.social! Some tickets still available including just 4 left at £16 - grab yours now before it's too late!

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Chris Astles @castles73.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Well Painter Hall at Greenwich, that is one well-placed mirror.

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Guy Raybould @guyraybould.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Yes well I think we already have enough clefs to deal with without this bit in tenor clef thanks

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Kensington Symphony Orchestra @kso.org.uk · 17/01/2025

Julian Bliss will be our soloist in Magnus Lindberg's clarinet concerto next Saturday 25 January at Queen Elizabeth Hall @southbankcentre.bsky.social

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Guy Raybould @guyraybould.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

List of the instruments in my house: - piano - viola - oboe - cor anglais - flute - piccolo - violin (don't know why, nobody plays it) - cello (display item) - bass recorder - tenor recorder - treble recorder - descant recorder - sopranino recorder - garklein recorder - 3 ocarinas - 2 kazoos

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Guy Raybould @guyraybould.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

43% of countries in the world (85 countries)

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Guy Raybould @guyraybould.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Hello from Saint Lucia 🇱🇨, the 85th country I’ve visited (and 86th for @castles73.bsky.social)

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Guy Raybould @guyraybould.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Here’s my travel review of 2024. The furthest points I’ve been to in each direction this year #Latvia 🇱🇻 #Argentina 🇦🇷 #Paraguay 🇵🇾

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

this kind of obviously biased headline is so frustrating when MSM is fighting for credibility 1) New Year’s Honours list is nominated by public not by political leaders 2) Khan has won three elections so the average Londoner clearly doesn’t think he’s a failure

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Chris Astles @castles73.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

2024 travel highlights no 3. The road trips from #Riga to the castles and palaces of #Rundale #Cesis, #Turaida and #Sigulda With guyraybould.bsky.social

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Chris Astles @castles73.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

A walk up to the #Derbyshire Levels in #Glossop - the mist cleared. With @guyraybould.bsky.social

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Chris Astles @castles73.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

2024 travel highlights no 2. The final European capital we had not visited. The wonderful #Sarajevo, #Bosnia, the east meets west melting pot where WWI kicked off and where war raged in my living memory. With guyraybould.bsky.social

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Guy Raybould @guyraybould.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

I’m in this concert with @kensingtonso.bsky.social at @southbankcentre.bsky.social on Saturday 25 January #Ravel #Prokofiev #MagnusLindberg Come along! 🎫 www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/kso...

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Kensington Symphony Orchestra @kso.org.uk · 11/12/2024

And for our next trick we will be performing these 4 fantastic pieces at @southbankcentre.bsky.social on Saturday 25 January with clarinettist Michael Collins #Ravel #Prokofiev #MagnusLindberg 🎫 kso.org.uk/event/concer...

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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

#NewReleases2024 #311 Magnus Lindberg: Viola Concerto, Absence & Serenades Lawrence Power (viola), Finnish RSO, Nicholas Collon Lindberg (b. 1958) has long been one of my favourite composers. Listen to this to hear why (btw Beethoven says hi) 💙💙💙

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Kensington Symphony Orchestra @kso.org.uk · 26/11/2024

Concert last night. Hope everyone in our large and enthusiastic audience enjoyed it as much as we did!

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Guy Raybould @guyraybould.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I could get used to putting all the washing in this bag and having it returned washed and dried a day later. Sadly it will only be until our new washing machine arrives next week

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Chris Astles @castles73.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

2024 travel highlights no 1. Escaping a London winter to spend my birthday exploring #Asuncion, #Paraguay. Country no 84. With @guyraybould.bsky.social

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Guy Raybould @guyraybould.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Good morning from my mum’s sunny garden

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