@timashash.bsky.social
Writer, critic, gay, likes decadent French, German and Italian literature, can sometimes be found slouching around in leather. I live in Sussex by the sea. #TeamRacine #TeamFlaubert #TeamFranzWerfel
The Wolf is just incredible, I think ........
15.02.2026 14:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Henri Duparc died on this day in 1933. Suzanne Danco sings L'Invitation au voyage with Roger Boutry at the piano.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBal...
Leontyne Price is 99 today. So a Happy Birthday to the greatest of them all.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECo3...
What a wonderful photo .......
04.02.2026 19:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Mozart was born on this day in 1756. So here's Eleanor Steber as Donna Anna
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'Today we remember that freedom is not free'. Keep on celebrating the life of this quietly remarkable human.
25.01.2026 10:40 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0Yes, I so agree. I heard Stewart as Golaud at Covent Garden once and he was unforgettable: I never heard Lear Live, sadly, which I always regret. And yes, I do like that Rosenkavalier, one of my favourites.
24.01.2026 15:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Sex, violence and the Trojan War. I have been spending time in the company of Hugo Wolf and Kleist for a Gramophone Magazine Explorations piece on Penthesiliea.
24.01.2026 12:50 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0😘
24.01.2026 09:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bon samedi Frédéric!! 😘😘😘
24.01.2026 08:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0À toi aussi, Frédéric!! 😘😘😘
22.01.2026 07:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Spending a morning with Wozzeck ........
21.01.2026 10:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Bon samedi, Frédéric. 😘😘😘
17.01.2026 08:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Samuel Barber's Vanessa was first performed in New York on this day in 1958, conducted by Dmitri Mitropoulos, with the great Eleanor Steber in the title role. This is the broadcast from a later performance in the opening run.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWmu...
Really saddened and shocked to hear of Andrew Clements' death. A wonderful critic, matchless on 20 and 21st century music, and a great colleague and friend to whom I owe an immense debt of gratitude for his role in giving me my own break as a critic. It's a huge loss. And he will be greatly missed.
11.01.2026 22:29 — 👍 77 🔁 10 💬 7 📌 0One of the great performances. Astonishing.
11.01.2026 13:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Bon samedi, Frédéric! 😘😘
10.01.2026 08:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Bondredi, Frédéric 😘
09.01.2026 08:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The great American soprano Evelyn Lear was born 100 years ago today. Here she is singing Hugo Wolf's orchestral version of Kennst du das Land, with the Vienna Symphony and Otto Gerdes in 1968.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkCB...
Absolument, mon ami! 😘
08.01.2026 18:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So Storm Goretti is now upon us! An unholy racket from outside and we're only under the yellow warning here. So stay safe and take good care, good people, and don't go out in it unless you absolutely have to .....
08.01.2026 17:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Moi aussi, mon cher! 😘
08.01.2026 17:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Oh! Tres beau, Frédéric! 😘😘😘
08.01.2026 16:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I wish I knew. Appalling. Just appalling .........
08.01.2026 16:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0When did having different political views turn into utter contempt for the lives and feelings of others?
08.01.2026 16:17 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
"Il pleure dans mon coeur comme il pleut sur la ville ....." Paul Verlaine died 130 years ago today. Here is Debussy in 1904 accompanying Mary Garden in three songs from his wonderful Verlaine cycle Ariettes oubliées
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r_M...
A toi, aussi, Frédéric! 😘😘😘
03.01.2026 08:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0👍
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29.12.2025 19:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It all looks really lovely. But stay warm, Dennis. Brutally cold (and very windy) here, too ........
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