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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A few pronunciation trip hazards in the list of composers for this year's ABRSM piano syllabus

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

For many listeners, it's this sort of thing that puts them off Haydn. Cos GREAT music is SERIOUS and must end with some GRAND STATEMENT or other, mustn't it? Must it? All I know is: sorry K491 but if it's a choice between your endless string of im/perfect cadences and THIS, I know which way I jump

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

That's right; how d'you get from Db to Eb? Why, by sliding through D, that's how! Again, this is Beethoven avant le lettre, and a lot breezier. And, to cap it, when he reaches this moment in the recap, he has less of a harmonic gulf to cross (Db to Cm)... but ADDS a bar anyway!

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

So much life! So many great moments! Look at this for pure sauce:

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I'm not here to slag Wolfgang off; as I've said it's invidious to compare the two composers who, touchingly, were as fond of each other as any two geniuses ever have been. But it seems unfair that K491 is programmed incessantly and music like this never gets played:

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Anyway, it starts like this; and it has been pointed out that it anticipates Mozart's Piano Concerto in the same key, K491. Ah yes, the great K491, so deep, so sublime...

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

... or this "wrong" note in the sublime slow movement, which much later diverts the music to an unexpected key... *cough*Beethoven 8*cough*...

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Plus his orchestral writing is masterful! Haydn doesn't get enough credit for this, but he was as cutting edge as Berlioz in his time. Check out this string writing! I'd honestly never heard anything quite like it before.

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

And there are some meltingly beautiful ensembles; here are a couple of choice moments from a duet and a trio but there are loads more

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Even the more formulaic stuff has interest - look at this mental tenor solo... (in the recording he did a top D, too, descending over 2 octaves in 2 bars)

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Can't wait for s02.e01...

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Coming soon to your choice of ears

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I tweeted this over 8 years ago. Of course I've reconsidered my words since then... These days I would add "anyone who doesn't like Elgar: I will never respect your opinion about ANYTHING"

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Full video only available here: www.patreon.com/posts/potomo...

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Great work. Apparently he also came up with the note orchestras tune to.

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Surely this is the First Amendment?

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Bit disappointed to find out I'm 2.6% Tax

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

In my humble opinion, THE Egyptian pyramid

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Rewatching Kenneth Clark's Civilisation

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I'm sure this is being put on at the Savoy because it is artistically excellent

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

It's the same length as Beethoven's 9th Symphony, but weirdly not as many fart gags. Genuinely. www.patreon.com/posts/potom-...

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Slightly concerned, in retrospect, about the criteria for being bottom middle in Blankety Blank

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Who's ever had rusty fingernails??

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

ABSOLUTELY NOT FUCKING GOOD ENOUGH

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Anyone else always add "and I need to be loved"? Not just to this, to everything?

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

No matter what you think of him, you have to admit he's got a point!

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Of course Nostradamus predicted all this

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

There's still some fun to be had on Twitter.

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Annotated Stravinskian Great Tit

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Ball, Hart, Cohen: A Junior Golden Braid

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I thought it was a hitherto unmentioned Bond in between Brosnan and Craig

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Jeremy Limb @jlimb.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I honestly briefly thought Trump had reinstated the post of 'Doge' based on the Venetian model, but obviously that would require knowledge of something beyond his shitty little purview

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