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Violin Sonata in D major 'Sonatina', D384 - Franz Schubert

Purcell: The Complete Sacred Music

And if you're haven't bought this bargain boxset yet, why not?
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I would have expected more tacky gold

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I’m thinking Pendrecki Threnody LOUD 🙄

He’s so skilled. Perhaps he could stick to tiling, decorating & renovating instead of his usual day job

Halloween & New Years Eve - my two most disliked days of the year - will it soon be over ? 🎃

Charities and stars call on UK government to set child poverty reduction targets Signatories of open letter include National Children’s Bureau, Barnardo’s and celebrities such as Emilia Clarke Celebrities, MPs and children’s charities are among dozens of signatories to an open letter ramping up pressure on the government to set targets for reducing child poverty in the UK. The actor Emilia Clarke, the broadcaster Chris Packham and the presenter George Clarke have put their names to the letter, coordinated by the Big Issue founder John Bird, stating that the government’s reluctance to set binding child poverty reduction targets has “rung alarm bells”. Continue reading...

Charities and stars call on UK government to set child poverty reduction targets

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

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One cannot level one’s moral lance at every evil in the universe. There are just too many of them. But you can do something and the difference between doing something and doing nothing is everything.

Daniel Berrigan

A huge win for wildlife justice 🦡⚖️
The High Court backed Badger Trust & Wild Justice, protecting fair access to environmental justice. 💚
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I'm quite happy to "take" a small contribution to stopping Ukrainian citizens being slaughtered in their hundreds of thousands.

🕰️ clocks back 1 hour tonight here in UK 🕰️

Beautiful isn’t it

This is amazing!!

Andrew Weinstein (@andrewjweinstein.com) If members of the United States military are truly being paid their salaries by a private individual, the American people should know who that individual is. Now.

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YouTube video by Thewisemonkey9 Leontyne Price: Verdi - La Forza del Destino, 'Sono giunta! Madre, pietosa Vergine'

It's #WorldOperaDay. So here's Leontyne Price singing Madre, pietosa Vergine from Verdi's La forza del destino. It really doesn't get must better than this.
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Scarlatti, D.: Sonatas

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Labour’s new deputy leader to be announced – UK politics live Polling suggests Lucy Powell enjoyed a healthy lead over Bridget Phillipson as voting closed on Thursday Prime minister Keir Starmer and justice secretary David Lammy should take responsibility for the error which led to a former asylum seeker who sexually assaulted a woman and a teenage girl to be accidentally released from prison, Epping Forest’s Tory MP said on Saturday. Ethiopian asylum seeker Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, 38, was jailed for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl, a crime which triggered protests at the Bell hotel in Epping where he had been staying. This sounds like an operational error, but the buck has to stop somewhere, and it has to stop at the top, at the justice secretary, the home secretary and the prime minister. They have said that they are livid and appalled. Well, quite right, they should be livid and appalled. But that’s that’s not good enough, and the Labour government needs to get a grip of this issue. Continue reading...

Labour’s new deputy leader to be announced – UK politics live

Hard to believe that this is a graph with a zero baseline. Normally when you see a hockey stick like this, there is some bad stats. This is just frightening.

And why the hell would ICE need guided missiles?

ICE boosts weapons spending 700% A Popular Information investigation reveals tens of millions in new ICE spending on guns, chemical weapons, and explosives.

Here is the source - which used government docs for their reporting: popular.info/p/ice-boosts...

Stravagante pensiero: Gesualdo & Napoli Rinaldo Alessandrini - album - 2025 - 22 songs

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Stravagante pensiero: Gesualdo & Napoli
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini

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Nothing else has worked – so Starmer and Reeves are finally telling the truth about Brexit | Rafael Behr It is the right way to go, but taking the long way round to such an obvious point has cost Labour precious time and credibility, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

“Nothing else has worked – so Starmer and Reeves are finally telling the truth about Brexit”

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The former Conservative Prime Minister, John Major, says the US is betraying its responsibilities.

Read more: https://bit.ly/4qgox4b

Many thanks Christian - The Dohnanyi is calling - but I dread to check the price !

J. S. Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232

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Mahler: Symphony No. 5

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Award-winning Wrexham Spaniel sniffing out wildlife crime Henry, a 10-year-old Springer Spaniel, was a "lost soul" who found his purpose as a detection dog.

Award for dog, abandoned five times but now solving wildlife crime www.bbc.com/news/article...

Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.47 (1945)

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