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Paul Griffiths

@disgwylfa.bsky.social

Writer, most recently of: let me tell you (2nd edition), let me go on, The Tomb Guardians, Mr. Beethoven. Posts here on sky, sea and coast in SW Wales, music and books

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Russet apple

07.10.2025 14:32 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He is outstanding.

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France, LPO, Gardner, RFH review - the sound of other worlds Even in the 21st century, it may not take that long for an outlandish literary experiment to jump genres and become an established musical classic. In 2008, I enthusiastically reviewed a strange, poet...

theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

07.10.2025 11:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks for telling me. See below.

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Programación | Real Filharmonía de Galicia

More performances of Hans Abrahamsen's 'let me tell you' on Thursday and Friday in Santiago de Compostela:
www.rfgalicia.org/es/programac...

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In concert – Jennifer France, London Philharmonic Orchestra / Edward Gardner @ Royal Festival Hall – Abrahamsen & Mahler Jennifer France (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra / Edward Gardner Abrahamsen let me tell you (2012-3)Mahler Symphony no.4 in G major (1892, 1899-1900) Royal Festival Hall, LondonFriday 3 Oc…

...and Richard Whitehouse
arcana.fm/2025/10/06/f...

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Bright fall

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Despite laudable Mahler it is Abrahamsen that will linger longest from Gardner and the LPO – Seen and Heard International

...and Colin Clarke
seenandheard-international.com/2025/10/desp...

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Boyd Tonkin on "let me tell you" performance (London, October 3)
theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

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Thank you, Andrew. Please let's say hello then.

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Day before Full Moon

05.10.2025 21:23 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Photograph from the Festival Hall on October 3 by lawmatt_reads on Instagram.

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Electric Boulez! Apologies for the long silence. Intending to do better in the immediate future.

New Substack post on Boulez's work with electronics, including links to recordings and documentary material:
open.substack.com/pub/disgwylf...

04.10.2025 08:10 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Glad you were there, Caroline.

03.10.2025 22:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Approve the epithet. A first for me.

03.10.2025 15:01 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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No sycamore around windward; could this have blown in from Ireland?

01.10.2025 07:29 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sea and sky

01.10.2025 07:05 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not sure that Folk Songs isn't altogether a problem.

30.09.2025 07:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Sea and sky

30.09.2025 06:28 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Evening sky

29.09.2025 18:41 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Sea and sky

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Evening Moon

28.09.2025 18:34 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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That's us!

28.09.2025 12:01 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Must be those wretched Tomb Guardians again....

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The book of the songs:

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Mahler’s Fourth Lose yourself in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with conductor Edward Gardner – and Abrahamsen’s haunting modern classic Let me tell you with soprano Jennifer France.

Jennifer France sings "let me tell you" in London on Friday.

lpo.org.uk/event/mahler...

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Sea and sky

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Ivy (Hedera helix), Cym. eiddew/iorwg

27.09.2025 06:56 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Towards sunrise

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Ah, those beautifully placed apostrophes....

26.09.2025 16:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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