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Mark Berry @boulezian.eurosky.social · 5h

I’ll be a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row this evening (19.15-20.00 BST) to discuss the 150th anniversary of the Bayreuth Festival. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, 13/10/2026

Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music.

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 16h

Monday night is vinyl night.

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 21h

Should you find yourself with a spare 8 hours or so... Tony Palmer's complete film. WAGNER - Richard Burton and Vanessa Redgrave - Full Length Film youtu.be/OI8lGAOm8l4?...

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WAGNER - Richard Burton and Vanessa Redgrave - Full Length Film - Official Movie | Tony Palmer

YouTube video by The Tony Palmer Collection

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Richard and Cosima in the photo booth.

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wet, miserable, foggy - perfect day for a birthday 😁 Time for the traditional (since now) birthday Parsifal. 🎈🎉 (To go with the weekend Parsifal. And the Friday Parsifal. And can't forget Parsifal Tuesday's etc)

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Bravo Philharmonia! And I had a big burger afterwards. I can recommend Bruckner and a burger for a night out.

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

God I love Bruckner's 4th. Just wanted to let you all know.

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

At the festival hall for culture time - Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Beethoven's 3rd piano concerto with Leif Ove Andsnes and then Bruckner's mighty 4th symphony. An early birthday treat 😄 🎈

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Love these vague recordings you sometimes find.... 'Berlin Orchestra' is probably my favourite of all the orchestras... 😁

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If I did have a son, this would be his name. "Everyone, say hello to little Wagner Siegfried Harding Taylor"

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy 91st birthday to the great Julie Andrews. Which also means it's time for me to post this clip once again. Julie Andrews - The ultimate Brünnhilde! youtu.be/VfVgR-7J4nM?...

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Julie Andrews - The ultimate Brünnhilde!

YouTube video by Matan Zigron

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Off work until late next week, during which time I'll become a year older but I'll also hear Bruckner's 4th live on Sunday. For now, glass of wine and an East German cassette of Jochum's Dresden performance, just to be a retro audio twat. 😎🍷

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Giving Solti's Bruckner 3rd a spin, although by the looks of the cover he's plotting to possibly take over the world or unleash some other diabolical plan with it. 😟

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

London Daily Chronicle from 21st November 1929, reporting on the UK premiere of Bruckner's 8th symphony. Didn't know it was premiered here by Klemperer.

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tonight's entertainment: a Hitchcock classic.

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dmitri Shostakovich and Yevgeny Mravinsky modelling their winter collection.

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Behind the scenes of Die Walküre at the Vienna Staatsoper (Domingo's debut in the role of Siegmund) in 1994. PLACIDO DOMINGO'S TALES FROM THE OPERA. Episode 1: Winter Storms youtu.be/ujQ9YLTWOvo?...

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PLACIDO DOMINGO'S TALES FROM THE OPERA. Episode 1: Winter Storms

YouTube video by panchupin

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Recovering from a bout of the deadly man-flu, what better way to recover than with Mahler's 'Resurrection' symphony live from Berlin. It feels appropriate - that huge finale is almost the same elation as when the virus lifts and you feel resurrected (or when you take a Lemsip)

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tuesday night is Schubert night (According to me)

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sir John Tomlinson - Wagner: Wotan's Farewell - Philharmonia Orchestra/d'Avalos (1985) youtu.be/x_8WiiTp1pk?...

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Sir John Tomlinson - Wagner: Wotan's Farewell - Philharmonia Orchestra/d'Avalos (1985)

YouTube video by Wahnfried

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Beethoven & The Italians. Loved the Italians, not so keen on the Beethoven performances though.... but an interesting album anyway. open.spotify.com/album/2CWent...

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Beethoven & The Italians: Symphonies Nos. 5, 6 & 7 - Cherubini, Rossini, Spontini - Album by Enrico Onofri | Spotify

Enrico Onofri · album · 2026 · 21 songs

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Time once again for the honoured British tradition of roasting the arse off some meat and sticking on a Parsifal. (The latter a very important and hugely traditional part)

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

1980s Richard Wagner is apparently Werner Herzog with big hair.

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Great Mahler 9 at the Proms yesterday, that solemn final note fading away, and the conductor clearly wanting a moment of silence, ruined only by a guy shouting BRAVO and trying to start the applause. The hall was united in wanting to punch him the balls.

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Albie Hall looking grand as always, and soon it will resound with Mahler's 9th.

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The German premiere of Shosty's mighty 11th in 1958, in Leipzig under Herbert Kegel in the GDR. Shostakovich - Symphony No.11 (MDR SO - Kegel) youtu.be/U0cTBfwme-4?...

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Shostakovich - Symphony No.11 (MDR SO - Kegel)

YouTube video by cis moll

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Not heard this one before - Lovro von Matačić conducts a concert performance of Wagner's Götterdämmerung Act III with the Budapest Symphony Orchestra in May 1983. open.spotify.com/album/7Ij0jH...

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Matačić Conducts Wagner Götterdämmerung Act III - 1983 stereo live recording (New DSD Mastering from Original Source) - Album by Richard Wagner | Spotify

Richard Wagner · album · 2025 · 18 songs

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Tonight's film. I've heard it's alright. A minor potboiler. Critical opinion seems to say it's generally ok.

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Took me a long time to get there, but now I'm in the Brucknerian world I never want to leave!

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I'm a bit late to the party but these are two marvellous remasterings of Karajan classics. The Bruckner blew me away!

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Friday night listening 😎 Enjoy your weekends

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Sir John Betjeman born on this day in 1906. Enjoy his wonderful trip along the Metropolitan line suburbs in Metro-land on iPlayer. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Metroland

In this classic 1973 documentary, sometimes in verse, poet laureate John Betjeman takes a nostalgic view of the suburban lands that branch off the Metropolitan Line.

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Akira Kurosawa and Billy Wilder proving that to be a great director you need shades and a flat cap.

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James Taylor @grafwagner79.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

How is modern vinyl so popular? £59 for one record of an old recording??! 😲

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