Three Choirs Festival

Three cheers for the Three Choirs Festival

2 August 2025 9:00 am

The Welsh composer William Mathias died in 1992, aged 57. I was a teenager at the time, and the loss…

Forget the Proms and Edinburgh – the Three Choirs Festival is where it’s at

3 August 2024 9:00 am

The Proms have started but there is a world elsewhere, and in Worcester Cathedral the 296th Three Choirs Festival set…

Before the dawn: Sir Edward Elgar, Sir Dan Godfrey, Sir Alexander Mackenzie and Sir Charles Stanford, seated. Standing: Sir Edward German and Sir Hubert Parry. Bournemouth Centenary Festival, 1910

Music’s Brexit

11 August 2018 9:00 am

It’s October 1895 and the spirit of Music has been absent from Britain for exactly 200 years. Why she fled,…