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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 16h

"Ain't nobody here but Charles Dickens/ There ain't nobody here at all."

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whitney pastorek @whittlz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

God fucking dammit: Nashville Symphony is suspending their 2026-27 season and furloughing everybody. Because it’s not like anybody in Nashville could afford to save it, right? We’re just a smol bean, golly gee, nobody’s got world-class Grammy-winning orchestra money round these here parts

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Spike Milligan under pressure to write yet another script c.1955

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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

These should keep me happy for a while.

A slightly dog-eared copy of "Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century" by Paul Kildea, next to a negroni, on a round table.

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Andrew Crowther @andrewcrowther.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I ordered a couple of recommendations of Holst’s The Planets from @deeplyclassical.bsky.social’s recent list and have been listening to them this morning. Both excellent, of course, and much to be recommended.

2 CDs from ICA classics—versions of Holst’s The Planets, conducted by Boult and Rozhdestvensky

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ian McShane is 84 On how he came to be narrator on Grace Jones’ Slave To The Rhythm: ‘I was in a chip shop with my wife Gwen, & Trevor Horn came in, who I’d known forever. He said ‘Ian, what are you doing after supper?’ ‘Why?’ ‘Well, I need a voice & Orson Welles is dead.’ youtu.be/nAerTAjLpF0?...

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Grace Jones - Slave To The Rhythm (HQ)

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Gina Dalfonzo @ginadalfonzo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Listening to this now. Good stuff! 🎻

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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

YOU HAVE NOT HEARD THE END OF THI

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Sarah Fritz @sarahfritz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Epic news— A review of MADAME COMPOSER is in the Wall Street Journal!!!🥳 Should be in print today🤞🏻 Gift link: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

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‘Madame Composer’ and ‘Johannes Brahms’: The Keys to the Heart

Johannes Brahms’s feelings for Clara Schumann were obvious to everyone except his beloved.

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Thank EU for The Music @thankeuforthemusic.com · 26/09/2026

The @telegraph.co.uk decided not to publish our response to Tim Stanley’s 13 September piece, in which he called those organising the EU flags at the Proms “sad sack Remainers”. We believe in open dialogue and free speech, so we’ve published our response here... #LastNightOfTheProms

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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Do I get points for triggering Bluesky's porn police?

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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#TheCompleteBritten #184 A Shepherd’s Carol, for chorus (1944) One of two pieces setting sections of W. H. Auden's long poem "For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio". This carol has more than a hint of the spirituals that Britten encountered during his time in America.

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Britten: A Shepherd's Carol - Terry Edwards, London Sinfonietta Chorus

YouTube video by CLASSIC&OPERA

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Mr Snodes @mrsnodes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Agree - I think Britten is too recent to be really recognised in context as a genius. The scope and volume of his work and the way he uses individual orchestra sections and voices is really special.

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Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A strangely moving film.

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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A slice of French life ... and death #NowDrinking a negroni #NowWatching Le Boucher (1970)

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Nathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Fighting over a little piece of street is so important?" 🎭 #OTD in #Theatre #History 26 September 1957, #LeonardBernstein, #StephenSondheim and #JeromeRobbins' #musical WEST SIDE STORY premiered at the Winter Garden Theater on Broadway, New York to glowing reviews.

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On Oct. 17 we’re singing the world premiere of Elysian Ode, a lovely work for double choir and cello written for us by the great James MacMillan. Don’t know James’ music? Listen to us singing this then book to hear us in this concert of seriously lush music. youtu.be/QKDX6gz20PU?...

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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#TheCompleteBritten #183 Festival Te Deum, Op. 32 for treble solo, chorus & organ (1944) Composed for the centenary of Anglo-Catholic St. Mark’s Church in Swindon. Wonderfully serene outer sections frame an ecstatic central climax in which the organ gets a damn good thrashing.

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Festival Te Deum, Op. 32

YouTube video by The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge - Topic

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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy #NewReleaseFriday! This week my symphony and orchestral #NewReleases playlist starts with fiery Falla from one of my lovely local orchestras. Plus symphonies by Beethoven's pupil Carl Czerny and more - get them on your favourite streaming service here 🔽 www.tunemymusic.com/share/1FXGR0...

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9883513--manuel-de-falla-el-sombrero-de-tres-picos-el-amor-brujo-homenajes-la-vida-breve-fantasia-baetica

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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Does this resonate with any compsers? 🎶

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 25/09/2026

it's been less than a year, and already the socialists are forcing people to go to the opera

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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I got to do more listening today than any other day this year and boy, did #NewReleases2026 #190, #191 & #192 make it a day to remember! Three cracking records that'll be vying for a slot on #SymphonistsChoice2026 come Christmas. Pure joy ❤️❤️❤️

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9879214--sturm-und-drang-vol-4

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9885322--frank-loesser-guys-and-dolls

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9885320--george-enescu-string-octet-piano-quintet

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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have been known to sing "Pious Celinda"....Purcell songs are a joy to sing - and "Dear pretty youth " is quite the love song.

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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#TheCompleteBritten #180 Pious Celinda, Z. 410 - Purcell realization for high or medium voice & piano (1944) As Michael Tippett observed, Handel's popularity had largely obscured Henry Purcell (1659-1695), but musicians were rediscovering him in the years before the 250th anniversary of his death.

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Pious Celinda, Z. 410

YouTube video by Matthew Rose - Topic

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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

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Pious Celinda, Z. 410

YouTube video by Matthew Rose - Topic

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Kirsten Amy @kirstenp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is a masterpiece of an album cover; I am in hysterics

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Kat Arney @katarney.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"Careful dear, we can almost see Uranus."

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Philip Gwynne Jones @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Drop a THREAT. "I won't be back. But something will."

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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wondering which recording of The Planets to play in honour of Gustav Holst's birthday? Of course you are! Happy to help.

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Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Gustav Holst was born otd, 21 September 1874. He came from a musical family and studied composition at the Royal College of Music, where he developed a lifelong friendship with Ralph Vaughan Williams.

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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#TheCompleteBritten #179 The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard, for male voices & piano (1943) "I am quickly scribbling a short choral work for a prison camp in Germany where some friends of mine are". Somehow commissioned by British POWs, and smuggled into their camp on microfilm.

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WGBH Music: Cornell Glee Club performs Britten's "Ballad of Little Musgrave"

YouTube video by GBH Music

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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

#TheCompleteBritten #178 The Rescue of Penelope - Incidental music for narrator, soprano, mezzo-soprano, tenor, baritone & orchestra (1943) Britten & Edward Sackville-West took almost as long over the Odyssey as Christopher Nolan, but this suite rattles through the story in half an hour or so.

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Britten Rescue of Penlope

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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#TheCompleteBritten #175 Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, Z. 587: There’s not a swain of the plain - Purcell realization for high or medium voice & piano (1943) Britten and Pears often performed Purcell together in their recitals, one of which took place at Wormwood Scrubs prison, on 11th July 1943.

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Purcell, Britten: Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, Z. 587: There's Not a Swain of the Plain

YouTube video by Ian Bostridge - Topic

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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Not quite sure how "Dubbed" became "Debbued". I can't even blame autocorrect for that one.

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Britten Rescue of Penlope

YouTube video by jolivetmania

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I learn that this work of genius is by @laurahowell.bsky.social. Chapeau.

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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Also this week: the start of another enticing series, which promises to give us the complete orchestral works of Emilie Mayer. She wrote 8 symphonies, of which the last is presumed lost. I wonder whether they'll be able to find it?

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9879500--emilie-mayer-piano-concerto-symphony-no-1-overtures-symphonic-works-vol-1#awards_and_reviews

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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

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Purcell, Britten: Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, Z. 587: There's Not a Swain of the Plain

YouTube video by Ian Bostridge - Topic

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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Happy #NewReleaseFriday! Volumes 1-3 were stormers, so I'm thrilled to see this @themozartists.bsky.social series back on the road. Minor-key symphonic bangers by Haydn and "The Swedish Mozart" Joseph Martin Kraus sandwich operatic fire and fury. Try it here: ▶️ www.tunemymusic.com/share/JZ2zWb...

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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you want me, I'll just be listening to all of Cabin Pressure *again* in tribute #RIP

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Joanna Wyld @joannawyld.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Brahms taking a reassuring 20-odd years to complete his First Symphony. There's still time to finish that thing you haven't finished yet

A Musical Marathon
In 1862 Joachim received a letter from Clara Schumann: ‘Johannes sent me the other day – imagine the surprise! – the first movement of a symphony’. She described the opening as ‘rather strong, but I have soon become used to it. The movement is full of wonderful beauties, and the themes are treated with a mastery which is becoming more and more characteristic of him.’ Joachim replied: ‘Perhaps I shall be able to invite you to Hanover for Brahms’s symphony at the end of October.’
The word ‘perhaps’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, and Clara’s surprise also reflects these friends’ awareness that the gestation of Brahms’ First Symphony was proving exceptionally lengthy. But in a culture that promotes prodigies and an ethos of goal-driven impatience, it is reassuring to reflect that Brahms took around twenty-one years to complete his First Symphony; the work’s conception may date as far back as 1854. Even when in 1862 Brahms sent Clara an early version of the first movement, progress stalled again. By the time the symphony was finished in 1876, he was in his early forties.

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Ryan Vance @ryanvance.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I don’t think I’m hearing this in my head the way they expected me to.

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La Serenissima | Vivaldi & Italian Baroque @laserenissimauk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We've realised we don't SHOUT about our Patreon nearly enough 🗣️ So here we are, announcing it again, for those of you who have not yet realised you should have signed up already. This is the Entrée from Telemann's Ouverture-Suite in A minor. As far as we can tell, nobody has ever commercially..

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I hope this ishmael finds you whale

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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

#TheCompleteBritten #174 Rejoice in the Lamb, Op. 30 - festival cantata for chorus (SATB), with treble, alto, tenor & bass solos, & organ (1943) This captivating work sets eccentric reverential texts by Christopher Smart (1720-1771), reputedly written while Smart was confined to a mental asylum.

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Rejoice in the Lamb - Benjamin Britten | Auckland Youth Choir

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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And this is what I'll be thinking for the rest of #TheCompleteBritten

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