Liberal Worlds
The intellectual biography of a Victorian Liberal polymath
Out in the USA since November, available in the rest of the world from today (but not from @princetonupress.bsky.social website!) press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
13.01.2026 15:35 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Beautiful!
04.08.2025 01:21 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
They serialized the book on Radio 4 a few years ago—fascinating!
19.07.2025 13:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fascinating to hear #EvgenyKissin in conversation with @stevenisserlis.bsky.social
this lunchtime @wigmore-hall.org.uk ending with a wonderful surprise: a live performance of Kissin’s own Cello Sonata, Op. 2!!
15.07.2025 16:40 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"We must never forget that music is movement, always going somewhere, shifting and changing, and flowing, from one note to another; and that movement can tell us more about the way we feel than a million words can."
-Leonard Bernstein, "What Does Music Mean?" (1958)
30.01.2025 19:20 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Happy Teach Music Week! 👩🏫🎼🧑🏫🎶
"Teach people to read music. It’s not so difficult, and it’s perfectly possible to include the reading of music in the basic materials of education."
-Leonard Bernstein
Music Should Be Listened To, Not Heard (1959)
18.03.2025 14:57 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Happy World Music Day! 🎶
“When we touch one another through music, we are touching the heart, the mind, and the spirit, all at once.”-Leonard Bernstein
How are you making music today?
[📸 Courtesy of Sony Classical]
21.06.2025 12:54 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
We were sorry to hear that legendary pianist Alfred Brendel has passed away at the age of 94.
Alfred Brendel made his Wigmore Hall debut in 1958, and gave many performances at the Hall, including programmes of Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert and more.
Our thoughts are with all who knew him.
17.06.2025 15:04 — 👍 115 🔁 43 💬 0 📌 10
Hi Linton, I know you’re no longer in the other place, but do take a minute to see all the lovely comments there on your presenting Breakfast this week. Absolutely agree! Hope you’ll be back soon. Perfect voice to wake up to on radio: warm and welcoming!
30.05.2025 12:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Get well soon!
04.04.2025 22:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hearing @igorpianist.bsky.social @wigmore-hall.org.uk is always a highlight for me but today’s concert of Prokofiev & Shostakovich was extra special. Thank you for introducing us to Lukas Sternath—what a talent! Such an exciting evening!
04.04.2025 21:32 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Morning Petroc! I adore l’Arpeggiata’s Purcell! Lovely to wake up to! 😊
25.02.2025 08:31 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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22.02.2025 01:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Morning, Petroc! Good to find you here too…
28.11.2024 07:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’ve always admired the work of @cathynewman.bsky.social but this was one of the most powerful & moving pieces of television I’ve ever seen. I can’t think of anyone else who could have conducted that interview with the same mix of professionalism & humanity. Huge respect. @Channel4News.bsky.social
18.11.2024 20:46 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Hurray! And Loabi’s here too!😊
17.11.2024 21:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’ve just joined bluesky too. Looking forward to your next Beethoven recital at Wigmore Hall!
17.11.2024 16:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This starter pack has been constructed by from handles of those who interact with classical music posts *Please don’t be offended if I haven’t added you yet*. If you repost and if you have classical music in your feed I am likely to add you. Follow everyone by going to ‘about’. go.bsky.app/2rDVe3x
14.11.2024 06:37 — 👍 73 🔁 28 💬 9 📌 2
YouTube video by Pascal Rogé - Topic
Poulenc: Novelette on a Theme of Manuel de Falla, FP 173
Lovely photo.
12 weeks today since my mother died—it’s hard to process…
Here’s some Poulenc—wistful & nostalgic…
youtu.be/hcJquabBwrg?...
16.11.2024 21:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
YouTube video by DianaKrallVEVO
Diana Krall - Fly Me To The Moon (Quartet Performances, Las Vegas)
Happy Birthday to Diana Krall!
youtu.be/-b8brVSAAQA?...
16.11.2024 12:12 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hello Loabi! 😊
15.11.2024 21:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Changing and saving lives - one paw print at a time!
CNN Chief International Anchor | Amanpour/Amanpour & Co, weeknights on CNN International & PBS | The Amanpour Hour, 11aET every Saturday on CNN
Opera, F1, wildlife, travel.
Sharing the wonders of flowers and nature, gardening, plant history, folklore, art, and poetry. Bedfordshire photographer for the National Garden Scheme charity. #SolaceInNature #DailyBotanicalBeauty
https://www.venetiajane.co.uk
Canadian 🇨🇦. Love classical music, opera, be bop and hard bop jazz, art history, old school prog, European and Canadian history, travel, hiking, politics left leaning. No DMs
Art lover, 80s music junkie. Lens crafter, snapping pics & fighting stigma around mental wellbeing. Let's connect! 📷 🎶
Retired. Writer and community contributor in Evansville Ind. Music, art, travel, positivity.
Cameraman/Librarian/Music Lover
Cycling/Walking Everywhere
https://heathcoatstreet.blogspot.com/
Nottingham, UK
Multi-award-winning conductor; usually to be found unearthing lost musical treasures, or serving his feline overlords.
A historian of things before 1700, especially religion, friars and the ways of everyday life.
World-renowned musician 🎹, composer ✍🏼, conductor 🎫, educator 🎼, and humanitarian 🕊🌎 | (August 25, 1918 - October 14, 1990)
www.leonardbernstein.com
Writer, film/theatre critic, person of interests.
Busy writer on classical music and opera for The Stage, BBC Music Magazine, Opera & many others: also a (very minor) composer and pianist (of the fourth rank). We need the arts more and more: in the words of Dostoyevsky, 'Beauty shall save the world'.
An anti-poverty charity and community of food banks working to end hunger together 💚
Classical Music host with a face for radio.
CKCU-FM 93.1, Ottawa, “Music for a While” (https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/602/info.html)
"Classical Muse" for other stations and YouTube
Ex CBC Radio
Always time for tea.
We support St Cecilia’s Hall and Museum, Edinburgh. This hidden gem is the oldest purpose-built concert hall in Scotland and has a collection of over 6,000 historic musical instruments. We hold concerts. Join us!
https://friendsofstceciliashall.com
Escaped X - want my freedom of movement back!
I’m very new, so follow me and I’ll follow back.
Train traveller, francophone, opera lover, e-bike rider, history of art newbie. Oh, and wine. Pro-EU. Pro public transport and active travel.
Always music (mostly classical) CBSO chorus. Found outside or staring out of windows at wildlife and clouds (sometimes remember to take a photo), university med ed. post my own views
