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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 21m

At Milton Court for an intriguing Japanese/new music @guildhallschool.bsky.social piano programme by Satoko Inoue

Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 5h

Achille Ouvré, portrait of #Ravel at the piano from 1911, the year of Valses nobles et sentimentales - the topic of my latest Substack post: carolinefrmus.substack.com/p/the-delici... Surely Ravel didn't play the piano like that? I've read that he used a very low wrist but the elbows...?!

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Amateur pianist corner, work in progress: #Albéniz El Puerto (Cádiz). l love this bit - 'très langoureux' one moment, capricious the next - and have just about nailed it thanks to repetitive practise (sorry, neighbours...)

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

‘The delicious, ever-renewed pleasure of a useless occupation’: my new Substack post on #Ravel. What type of occupation? Read on... carolinefrmus.substack.com/p/the-delici...

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‘The delicious, ever-renewed pleasure of a useless occupation’

On Ravel’s Valses nobles et sentimentales and its epigraph

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Still bothered by an incident that happened last night. I was walking to a concert, messaging on my phone - a guy thought I was lost and asked if I wanted directions and I said no thank you. So... he followed me.

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Epic evening at the stunning LSO St Luke’s curated by Euchar Gravina. Loved Nono A Pierre & Gravina’s haunting Misraħ (yes, Maltese 🇲🇹 ) - slow procession of chords overlaid with recorded surround sound and chorus

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Listening to #Debussy Pelléas et Mélisande for a job I'm researching, and remembered I still have this 1992 @WelshNatOpera poster of their Boulez/Peter Stein production which I saw in Birmingham ❤️🐑🕊️

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#Boulez Dérive 3, first broadcast on France Musique 30 September 2026 at 8 pm, for two spatially separated brass groups and six tuned percussion instruments. Basically it's 'Initiale' with additional material and it's unfinished. From 5'30": www.radiofrance.fr/francemusiqu...

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Grille des programmes radio – France Musique

Consultez les programmes du jour et de la semaine de France Musique. Retrouvez les noms des œuvres diffusées à la radio, les sujets et les invités.

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Coming up on my Substack: a new article on #Ravel. First hint on its topic here!

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Grille des programmes radio – France Musique

Consultez les programmes du jour et de la semaine de France Musique. Retrouvez les noms des œuvres diffusées à la radio, les sujets et les invités.

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lovely to talk about Lili #Boulanger and #Fauré at Steinway Hall for Tal Walker’s album launch www.antarctica-records.eu/release/clai...

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Ensemble intercontemporain @ensembleinter.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

📻 Les 50 ans de l’EIC continuent sur @francemusique.fr ! Le concert « Juke-box contemporain », qui a ouvert les festivités des 50 ans de l’EIC le 19 septembre à la @philharmoniedeparis.fr , est à (ré)écouter ce soir avec Pierre Bleuse, Mariam Rezaei et les solistes de l’Ensemble. shorturl.at/u0j58

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Juke box contemporain : 50 ans de l'Ensemble intercontemporain avec Pierre Bleuse et Mariam Rezaei

Un juke-box contemporain choisi par plus de 500 auditeurs : Boulez, Ligeti, Chin, Saariaho et Grisey célèbrent les 50 ans de l’Ensemble intercontemporain, avec Mariam Rezaei aux platines et Pierre Ble...

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Strange, witty, disturbing and much else: #Magritte and other surrealist artists at the Gagosian Gallery, London

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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN @icareifyoulisten.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Visit our website to read the latest concert review from London-based I CARE IF YOU LISTEN contributor @carolinefrmus.bsky.social icareifyoulisten.com/2026/09/revi...

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don’t know whether I’ll get to see the #BayeuxTapestry in London, but I’m happy to have just received this @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social book with fantastic illustrations

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A few tickets left for Tal Walker's launch of his CD of music by #Fauré and Lili #Boulanger on Wed 30 Sept, 6.30 pm, Steinway Hall London. I'll be talking about the composers. Free - sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/steinway-h...

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Steinway Hall Welcomes Tal Walker

Steinway Hall welcomes Steinway Artists Tal Walker for his album launch

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Amateur pianist corner: revisiting #Messiaen Vingt regards nos 1 and 19 (my favourite) after about 2 years away from them. I want to learn no 4 and need to remind myself how these pieces feel under the fingers...

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Great to attend the Vox Urbane album launch in Shoreditch- and the catering was fabulous! Reviewing for @icareifyoulisten.bsky.social

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So #Boulez Courtes dérives à partir d'Éclat, composed in 1996 for Gloria Cheng, is now published by Universal Edition: www.universaledition.com/en/Courtes-d...

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Courtes dérives à partir d'Éclat | Gedruckt | P0348184

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Really loving #Ravel piano music performed by Gieseking, who called this repertoire 'the most pianistic music ever written.' Listen to the fluid and crystalline Jeux d'eau: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cz9...

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#Boulez Dérive 3 premiere is being broadcast on France Musique on 30 September in the evening concert slot (8 pm French time). Manuscript extract from the fabulous Boulez catalogue published last year

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Wordle 1,923 3/6. Fluke ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Coming up in the next month or two on my Substack, in advance of my book on the composer (one year to go until my deadline!): two articles on #Ravel. Please subscribe/support: substack.com/@carolinefrmus

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Royal College of Music @rcmlondon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Priority booking is now open for RCM Opera’s enchanting autumn production of music by Debussy and Ravel: ‘L’enfant prodigue’ (The Prodigal Son) and ‘L’enfant et les sortilèges’ (The Bewitched Child) 🪄 23, 25, 27 & 28 November – RCM Friends book now: www.rcm.ac.uk/events/festi...

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#Scarlatti facsimile edition of Essercizi (K1-30, 1738). Want it

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My review of the Tête-à-Tête/Royal Academy of Music mini-opera show at the Cockpit Theatre in London last Saturday (also published on Operascene): carolinefrmus.substack.com/p/tete-a-tet...

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Tête-à-Tête Opera x Royal Academy of Music students

Cockpit Theatre, London, 19 September 2026

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Gorgeous: just heard this on BBC Radio 3. If you love French song, you'll love Jeanne Bernard's setting of Chansons de Bilitis performed by Sandrine Piau & David Kadouch www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3Wb...

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JEANNE BERNARD // 'Trois chansons de Bilitis: No. 2, Les contes' by Sandrine Piau & David Kadouch

YouTube video by Alpha Classics

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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Our last paperback sale of the year continues! Save 40% on selected paperback books until this Friday. No code required. Browse the sale 👉 buff.ly/FC81nOr #BookSky #Skystorians

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Really enjoyed the new Zygmund de Somogyi cello sonata: modelled on Schnittke with a wider emotional range. Superbly written for the ensemble - great performance by Miki Piszczorowicz & Jeffrey Macsim @zdscomposer.bsky.social

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

At County Hall #Kingston for Open house week - it was once earmarked for Kingston University use. Love the list of Surrey MPs since 1290 (favourite: Johannes Basket)

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Nadia #Boulanger, born 16/09/1887: Vers la vie nouvelle (1915), my favourite piece by her and the one that most resembles her sister Lili's music 1/3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp34...

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Nadia Boulanger - Vers la Vie Nouvelle

YouTube video by Jorge Edgar Cardoso Cunha

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Enjoyed this short book by @barbarakelly8.bsky.social on Jane Bathori's contribution to Parisian musical life in World War I: I'll be going back to the useful lists of works performed. Read it free online until 30 Sept: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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The Parisian Musical Avant-Garde during the Great War

Cambridge Core - Music: General Interest - The Parisian Musical Avant-Garde during the Great War

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PRXLUDES @prxludes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

💫 heey LDN!! are you interested in adventurous music by today's most exciting composers? come join us at Chats Palace on Friday 16/10 🔥 grab yr 🎟️ : dice.fm/event/pyn92w...

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

So Christian Dior named a couture gown after #Poulenc - here it is:

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm really into Annie #Ernaux at the moment: personal stories that speak widely and touchingly about French social history. 'Les années' is her major work (and has been translated) and I've enjoyed everything I've read by her

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Steven Rajam @stevenrajam.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Everyone has a memorable day when they hear Prokofiev's utterly batshit Ode To The End Of The War for the first time. Today is mine. Let it soon be yours.

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Amateur pianist corner: Lili #Boulanger, end of Prélude in D flat. She was a super nerd: it's dated 'Sunday 12 March 1911', when she was 17. I'm focusing on this piece for my next Substack post, coming on Monday! Please subscribe: substack.com/@carolinefrmus

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Gripped by De Gaulle: Résistance, the first part of Antonin Baudry's epic film. Also enjoyed this article on its 'imaginative adaptation' of Julian Jackson's biography: engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-b...

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The battle to bring General de Gaulle to the screen

Antonin Baudry's imaginative adaptation of my biography of de Gaulle, ‘A Certain Idea of France’, raises questions about which liberties film-makers may take when depicting the past.

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First Inversion @first-inversion.com · 11/09/2026

Métier Records proudly presents an outstanding new contemporary release: the complete acknowledged output for solo piano by Romanian composer Horaţiu Rădulescu, performed by @ianpace.bsky.social, a world-renowned interpreter of new music. 🎧 Listen now ▶️ listn.fm/radulescu

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yes! On reflection, I’m fascinated by Loriod’s layering of the ‘raga’ soloist group - which continues throughout the first part, unchanging in style - over wildly different orchestral contexts

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Beautiful Erard harpsichord, 1896, seen in the excellent #Berlin musical instrument museum. There was a similar Pleyel of the same period - they were always huge rivals

Beautiful harpsichord with a double manual and six pedals

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Quick stopover in #Brussels - Théâtre de la Monnaie/De Munt

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My penultimate train journey on this trip: Berlin🚝Brussels overnight. Every other train at this station is delayed, but my German vocab is improving: Verspätung, fällt heute aus, Defekt

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