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Passionate symphony lover. Other music is good too.
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If Haydn's the Father of the symphony, then Johann Stamitz (1717-1757) is one of the genre's great-uncles. These slight but charming symphonies, likely among his earliest, make agreeable semi-background listening on a Sunday afternoon.
#NewReleases2025 #233
Record cover for Avril Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Concerto & Orchestral Works. Samantha Ege (piano), BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, John Andrews. Resonus Classics RES10374. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9825586--avril-coleridge-taylor-piano-concerto-orchestral-works
Record cover for Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Orchestral Works Rebecca Murphy (soloist), Ioana Petcu-Colan (soloist). Ulster Orchestra, Charles Peebles. SOMM SOMMCD0713. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9810021--coleridge-taylor-orchestral-works
My hectic schedule forces #NewReleaseFriday back by two whole days π in a week featuring not only one Coleridge-Taylor, but a pair: @jkaconductor.bsky.social & Samantha Ege give us the first ever album dedicated to Avril, while her dad gets a 150th birthday bash.
Try them here βΆοΈ spoti.fi/400asdn
Karina Canellakis conducts Tchaikovsky. London Philharmonic Orchestra, Karina Canellakis. LPO LPO-0137. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9800361--karina-canellakis-conducts-tchaikovsky
Even the most enthusiastic symphony fan might wonder if the world really needs more recordings of these warhorses, but I found the 5th exciting, gripping and fresh. I was less keen on the 6th, but No. 5 is well worth hearing, no matter how well you think you know it.
#NewReleases2025 #231
Really enjoyed these last two HΓΆlty settings.
18.11.2025 07:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0What did you think this time?
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It's Mackerras 100 on BBCRadio3 today. The great Australian conductor Charles Mackerras born on this day in 1925. Breakfast is packed full of his recordings and we'll get to hear him in interviews as we plunder the BBC archives. 6.30-9.30.
17.11.2025 07:11 β π 38 π 8 π¬ 3 π 0I thought it was very good too. Only thing I didn't like was the child narrator at the beginning and the end. Smells like it was tacked on afterwards, and I think the film would have been better without it.
17.11.2025 07:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0+1. Terrific movie that works at both the popcorn entertainment and thought-provoking levels equally well.
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A scarecrow who has got drunk on extra strength lager and, rather embarrassingly, is now reliving his glory days in the Royal Air Force.
THREAD. A collection of photographs of the best scarecrows I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
Whenever my youngest niece comes to stay, we go to the HMV shop, and I always come home with some new films to help me relax.
#NowDrinking #NowWatching
![Sign taped to the wall in a toilet: "PLEASE hold Handel down when flushing"
['Handel' spelled as in the composer, rather than as in the thing you push or turn]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:criiz7t67jzchq7m6plznv7f/bafkreiarzcrlhq6qj2z5tfxuhbi2ae5shgst4n2ugdat6y5wnbdevtnufi@jpeg)
Sign taped to the wall in a toilet: "PLEASE hold Handel down when flushing" ['Handel' spelled as in the composer, rather than as in the thing you push or turn]
Hallelujah!
15.11.2025 18:38 β π 31 π 2 π¬ 5 π 2
Petula Clark singing 'Geh in die Stadt' - 'Downtown' in German - because today is her 93rd birthday... and because fuck Brexit, wir sind europΓ€er.
15.11.2025 19:38 β π 23 π 4 π¬ 3 π 2A highly a-moo-sing thread.
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A morbidly inclined sheep, who likes to hang around in graveyards, detests parties and owns original pressings of the entire classic run of Leonard Cohen LPs from 1967-1974.
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
Same here
15.11.2025 08:36 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It might save you an extra 78 rpm disc. Otherwise NO!
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A black and white photo of Aaron Copland conducting
He wrote only six film scores, but Aaron Copland BOTD (1900-1990) received Oscar nominations for 4 of those films, winning one, for THE HEIRESS (1949). Pretty good batting average, I'd say.
#filmsky #moviesky #musicsky
Wendy Carlos, BOTD in 1939, worked closely with Robert Moog in developing many of the modules and features of early Moog synthesizers in the 1960s.
Here, in 1970, Carlos shares the clearest and most easy to understand explanation of how a synthesizer works that you'll ever hear:
#musicsky #moviesky
When they met, it was Mordor.
14.11.2025 21:08 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel *14. November 1805: Quatuor en Mib majeur. Quatuor Ebène. www.youtube.com/watch?v=biWr...
#classicalmusic
Would make the licence fee worth it on its own
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Record cover art for Rachmaninoff: The Bells & Elgar: Falstaff. Mirjam Mesak (soprano), Pavel Petrov (tenor), Andrii Kymach (baritone), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus, Vasily Petrenko. Harmonia mundi HMM902788. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9809638--rachmaninoff-the-bells-elgar-falstaff
Record cover art for Thomas Adès: The Exterminating Angel Symphony & Violin Concerto. Thomas Sondergard, Leila Josefowicz (violin), Minnesota Orchestra. Pentatone PTC5187487. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9808964--ades-the-exterminating-angel-symphony-violin-concerto
Happy #NewReleaseFriday! Two unconventional symphonies start my playlist this week: Rachmaninoff referred to choral blockbuster "The Bells" as his 3rd Symphony when he wrote it, while the Adès (a world premiere recording) is an "orchestral rendering" of music from his opera.
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Care to tell us how? Motonormativity is a powerful force.
14.11.2025 08:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Woohoo! I've fought my way through the snowstorm and caught up to you at last.
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Record cover art for Rachmaninoff: The Bells & Elgar: Falstaff. Mirjam Mesak (soprano), Pavel Petrov (tenor), Andrii Kymach (baritone), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus, Vasily Petrenko. Harmonia mundi HMM902788. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9809638--rachmaninoff-the-bells-elgar-falstaff
Record cover art for Thomas Adès: The Exterminating Angel Symphony & Violin Concerto. Thomas Sondergard, Leila Josefowicz (violin), Minnesota Orchestra. Pentatone PTC5187487. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9808964--ades-the-exterminating-angel-symphony-violin-concerto
Happy #NewReleaseFriday! Two unconventional symphonies start my playlist this week: Rachmaninoff referred to choral blockbuster "The Bells" as his 3rd Symphony when he wrote it, while the Adès (a world premiere recording) is an "orchestral rendering" of music from his opera.
βΆοΈ spoti.fi/400asdn
I enjoyed this a lot
#NewReleases2025 #193
Album cover. Franz Schreker: Die Gezeichneten, Overture; Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Sinfonietta; Ernst Krenek: Potpourri. Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Sascha Goetzel. BIS BIS2722. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9799276--franz-schreker-die-gezeichneten-overture-erich-wolfgang-korngold-sinfonietta-ernst-krenek-potpourri
Two gorgeous helpings of it's-later-than-you-think late Romantic loveliness, including the teenage Korngold's sublime Sinfonietta, followed by Krenek's jolly jazz-Eurodance mashup. Orchestra, conductor & engineers capture the saturated, seductive soundworld superbly β€οΈβ€οΈβ€οΈ
#NewReleases2025 #225
Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy
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The legendary cat meme that started an era
The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
