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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 21h

Ooh, didn't know about this, will definitely check it out when it's released.

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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"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

It's like the historically-informed/period instrument movement never happened. Lyrical, very beautiful, broad. I sometimes wanted more grit, more turbulence, more pace, but I really enjoyed these lush, autumnal accounts.

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

I'm sure following a negroni with a cosmo will improve my health no end. Cheers! 🍸

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

I didn't listen to that as I was focused on #GustavHolst150 at the time. Now that I'm onto #TheCompleteBritten I'll have to give it a listen.

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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)

YouTube video by Oxygene 80

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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

I've no idea why he withdrew it, I'm afraid. Maybe due to his relationship with Auden, but according to one booklet note I read, the Christmas Oratorio was an active project between the two of them until at least 1945.

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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

You can hear all the Britten I've covered so far on the Youtube and streaming playlists linked in this 🧵🔽

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

#TheCompleteBritten #185 Chorale after an old French carol, for chorus (1944) Auden wanted Britten to set the whole poem, but that project stalled as the two men grew further apart. Britten recycled these two remnants for "Poet’s Christmas", a BBC programme produced by Edward Sackville-West.

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Britten: Chorale After an Old French Carol

YouTube video by Polyphony - Topic

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

I really enjoy listening to a historic instrument like this under the fingers and feet of such a great player. But I don't love the sound of a modern Steinway any less as a result.

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

Yes, it's the same type of instrument Schiff used for his recording of the piano concertos a few years back.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8906015--johannes-brahms-piano-concertos

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

I didn't know either until I read about this piece. Only time I've been to Swindon was in the 1990s. When I was working for EMI I visited the EMI CD pressing factory there. (That's not me in the photo BTW) www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/2450645...

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Photos show the busy heyday of EMI's Swindon vinyl and CD factory

Swindon was once the home of a factory which produced countless CDs and vinyl records for a major music studio.

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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

All the Britten I've covered so far is on the Youtube and streaming playlists linked in this 🧵🔽

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

As the liner notes have it in my Hyperion Britten/Purcell realizations discs, "No English composer has ever had as fine a sense for, and understanding of the language than Purcell". After listening to many of Britten's realisations I'm inclined to agree.

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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

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

When the continuo player is a musician with the skill and imagination of Benjamin Britten, the results have a magic all their own. Discover all the Britten I've covered so far on the Youtube and streaming playlists linked in this 🧵🔽

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

#TheCompleteBritten #182 Evening Hymn, Z. 193 – Purcell realization for high or medium voice & piano (1944) Purcell's originals provided only a vocal part and a bass line, figured to indicate the harmony. The performer uses their skill and imagination to 'realize' the accompaniment.

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Purcell, Britten: Evening Hymn, Z. 193

YouTube video by Felicity Lott - Topic

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

#TheCompleteBritten #181 The Queen’s Epicedium, Z. 383 - Purcell realization for high voice & piano (1944) Britten's and Tippett's "personal discovery of Purcell" made them want to spread the word to a larger audience. Britten's realizations gave him the means in his recitals with Peter Pears.

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The Queen's Epicdeium, Z. 383

YouTube video by Allan Clayton - Topic

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