Andy K 🏳️‍⚧️🌻

Gonna join the choir of “this happened to me” too. It helped to tell a few key people and then gauge where to go from there

Hey, one of them has slanted writing, that’s pretty out there….

You know that feeling when you’re really excited to listen to something that you’re about to listen to? I’m about to listen to Tubin’s 4th Symphony and I’m really excited 😃

Close up of me with my blahaj in the foreground ominously taking up a lot of the frame.

Sharkie calls the shots around here…

Ahhh I need to listen to these!

yes yes yes YES YES!!!

You will be visited by 5 spirits.

The five spirits:

Upper text: Beware the pipeline Beneath that it says he/him, he/they, they/them, she/they, she/her Under each pronoun is a cartoon image of a young woman who gets progressively more femme

I’m such a cliche 🤷🏻‍♀️ I was literally each of these in this order 🤣

Oh I’ve not heard the schumann cycle, I should check it out…

Oooh, I like this recording!

Yep, I’m definitely never seeing Antichrist again 😓

Atterberg: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 5 by Ari Rasilainen & Frankfurt Radio Symphony on Apple Music Album · 2000 · 6 Songs

Honestly, it can’t be real how beautiful music can be. Like I must be dreaming this, it can’t be

#NowListening to Atterberg

Symphony No. 2

Rasilainen/Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

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Aho: Symphony No. 1 / Hiljaisuus / Violin Concerto by Manfred Gräsbeck, Sinfonia Lahti & Osmo Vänskä on Apple Music Album · 1989 · 8 Songs

#NowListening to Aho

Symphony No. 1

Vänskä/Lahti Symphony Orchestra

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☝️The secret lost verse of Lennon’s famous ballad

Must I Monday today? Can’t I Sunday again? 🥱

The Handley Third has the best anvil btw!

The utter emotional exhaustion of oscillating between a) omg I’m so clocky, everyone is staring at me like I’m a freak and b) screw the world, I am who I am and I love myself

Make it stop 🫠

Bax Symphonies by Andy K on Apple Music Playlist · 21 Songs

It’s a Bax day today methinks 🤔

My fave recordings of each symphony:

1 - Handley
2 - Fredman
3 - Handley
4 - Thompson
5 - Leppard
6 - Lloyd-Jones
7 - Lloyd Jones

Here’s my playlist:

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Such a great recording!

Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (Live Recording) by Berlin Philharmonic & Herbert von Karajan on Apple Music Album · 1984 · 30 Songs

#NowListening to Mahler

Symphony No. 9

Karajan/Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (live)

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Rainbowsuspenderqueer

Still of Amy Lee from Evanescence belting majestically into a microphone. She’s wearing a gorgeous purple gothy dress

When I was a kid, this is who I wanted to be when I grew up. The signs were definitely there 😁

Violin Concerto No. 2 by Ida Haendel, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Herbert Blomstedt on Apple Music Song · 1988 · Duration 54:53

Would you believe listening to Allan Pettersson brings me joy. Just me?

#NowPlaying

Violin Concerto No. 2

Haendel/Blomstedt/San Francisco Symphony

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It’s so good - I’ve yet to pick a favourite, I’m leaning toward 3 or 7, but honestly maybe this one will be it 😃

Symphony No. 6, Op. 80: I. Lento (Sempre flessibile) - Allegretto by Richard Hickox & BBC National Orchestra of Wales on Apple Music Song · 1996 · Duration 9:23

I mean, come on, this is SOOOO BEAUTIFUL

#NowListening to Rubbra

Symphony No. 6

Hickox/BBC National Orchestra

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Very relatable considering the guilt I feel when I ignore Mahler, Haydn and Sibelius because I’m obsessing over Rubbra 😩

Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 31 Album · 1989 · 8 Songs

#NowListening to Haydn

Symphony No. 31 “Hornsignal”
Symphony No. 45 “Farewell”

Mackerras/Orchestra of St Luke’s

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I was thinking the same! One mega-symphony suggestion: the first mvt of No. 4, scherzo of no. 5, slow mvt of No. 1 and finale of No. 7 🤔

It’s brilliantly performed from top to tail

I’ve really changed my mind about Rubbra’s 9th - it’s so beautiful. At first I found it a bit off putting. It took really understanding his style (and learning more about him) to actually appreciate it. I’m still not a fan of choral symphonies in general, but this one goes in the good pile!