The Symphonist

Antonio's bassoon concerti are the bomb!

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Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Nobody's perfect.

Headline from the Times: "Bestselling novelist Jilly Cooper dies in fall aged 88", illustrated with a rather famous black and white picture of Virginia Woolf

Epic; no notes

I don't care what anyone says, I feel robbed if I don't get it.

The Joker’s Wild – Mischief in Music @Malvern Theatres
Wed 12th November, 7.30pm
Tickets: malvern-theatres.co.uk/event/eso-th...
Haydn – Symphony No. 60 (Il Distratto)
Weill – Cabaret Songs
Schulhoff – Suite for Chamber Orchestra
Milhaud – The Ox on the Roof
April Fredrick, soprano
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Zack on Bold Politics podium

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

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IMO The Miracle is even better than the Surprise, and still in many ways my favourite #96 on record.

The excitement and the architecture, perfectly balanced.

Mine too, obvs. There are various ways to approach Tapiola, but for the sheer grandeur of its dark, fire-flecked magic, there's no one quite like Herbie.

Here's twit-twooking at you, kid.
A beautiful thread.

Gibson by a short head of these four. I'd hope everyone also hears IMO the best En Saga (his first significant tone poem) and Tapiola (his last) on disc 🔥❄️🖤

Labour’s response to over 100,000 fascists in the streets of London is to appease them

Labour’s response to peaceful protesters demanding an end to genocide is to arrest over 1,000 people and now they are increasing police power.

Starmer is continuing the Tory project.

“Select all squares containing J D Salinger books” - CAPTCHA in the Rye.

Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests Officers will be able to tell organisers to move demonstrations if protests have caused "repeated disorder".

There is only one, solitary party and leader that now stands willing to defend unequivocally the basic human and civil rights that have underpinned English law for centuries: @greenparty.org.uk and @zackpolanski.bsky.social . That’s real patriotism! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hope things are un-trickifying. I'm on holiday next week, which gives me a chance to catch up.

Charles knights Brian May

Arise Sir Itzak Eindamägic

Album cover for Dvořák: Slavonic Dances. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle. Pentatone PTC5187414. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9799045--dvo-ak-slavonic-dances

Album cover for Ferdinand Ries: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7. Tapiola Sinfonietta, Janne Nisonen. Ondine ODE14762. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9785073--ries-symphonies-nos-6-7

Album cover for Beethoven Nine Symphonies. National Symphony Orchestra, Rimma Sushanskaya, Jennifer Davis (soprano), Bethany Horak-Hallet (contralto), Sam Furness (tenor), Stephen Loges (baritone). Quartz QTZ2170. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9782129--beethoven-nine-symphonies

Better late than never, it's #NewReleaseFriday! This week we've Sir Sime's Slavonic Dances, the completion of a super cycle of the symphonies by Beethoven's friend & pupil plus, unless I'm very much mistaken, the first EVER Beethoven cycle conducted by a woman.

Sample them here ▶️ spoti.fi/400asdn

Like this?

Er .. Er .. I think that's too short.

Klempererish?
Klempereresque?
Klempererian?

What's the correct adjective?

Nice! This new one has more old-school Klempererish spaciousness and grandeur than you usually hear in Beethoven 9 these days, and I must say I enjoyed the hell out of it.

Album cover for Beethoven: Symphonie No. 9 'hymne à La Joie'. Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Chœur de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux, chœur d'Angers Nantes Opéra, Salvatore Caputo, Xavier Ribes, conducted by Joseph Swensen. The photo shows the conductor smiling. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9789510--beethoven-symphonie-no-9-hymne-a-la-joie

Smile! It's Beethoven time!
#NowListening #NewReleases2025 #194

Cover art for Leif Segerstam & Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra: Sibelius Recordings. Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Leif Segerstam. Ondine ODE1500-2Q. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9799294--leif-segerstam-helsinki-philharmonic-orchestra-sibelius-recordings

Here's looking at you, @loveinner.bsky.social
#NewRelease

First Person: Manchester Camerata's Head of Artistic Planning Clara Marshall Cawley on questioning the status quo Over the past decade, Manchester Camerata has gained a reputation for continually innovating and redefining what an orchestra can do. But what does this really mean? For us, this means always question...

As #HereWeAre, five days of free events with all sorts of audiences around #Manchester, starts tomorrow, #ManchesterCamerata's Head of Artistic Planning #ClaraMarshallCawley writes about questioning the classical status quo #FirstPerson theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

YouTube video by 1000 Mission Street The Rockford Files Season 1 Intro

Mike Post is 81
His tv theme tunes helped to define my childhood & teenage years: youtu.be/W1zYNrsx9Pw?...

I don't know which is more cringeworthy. The Welsh accents of the minor characters, the "makes Hammer look like LucasFilm" sets, or the ominous minor-key wedding music?

This is ace!

The 'made-for-TV' atmosphere is already overwhelming!

Check out the production company!