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Maxime Tortelier @mtortelier.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

As the 8th month draws to a close, Mahler’s 8th symphony still rings vividly in my ears. Here are the final minutes of our epic concert last June. Thanks @timhandproduction.bsky.social for expertly capturing this performance and allowing the brilliance of everyone involved to be on full display!

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Maxime Tortelier @mtortelier.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

😡 Les magasins Relay se muent en vitrine de l’extrême droite dans nos gares. Jean Castex, PDG de la SNCF, doit agir pour préserver la pluralité de la presse et notre démocratie. Signez la pétition ! agir.greenvoice.fr/petitions/ga...

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Pour mettre fin au monopole des boutiques Relay

😡 Les magasins Relay se muent en vitrine de l’extrême droite. La démocratie déraille. Signe la pétition !

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Guillaume Meurice @guillaumemeurice.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

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Maxime Tortelier @mtortelier.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

If you feel like, a month from now, you will be in a roof-raising mood, book your tickets for Mahler's superlative Symphony No. 8! Saturday 13th June at Lighthouse, Poole 👇 www.lighthousepoole.co.uk/event/mahler...

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Mahler Symphony No. 8 - Lighthouse

Experience Mahler's cosmic masterpiece, the 'Symphony of a Thousand', brought to life by Bournemouth Symphony Chorus.

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Maxime Tortelier @mtortelier.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Finally, here he is again, playing *that* prelude where the words "spring", "Bach" and "brook" all come together www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYah...

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Paul Tortelier plays Bach: Prelude from Suite No. 1 in G major (vaimusic.com)

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Maxime Tortelier @mtortelier.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

And since the day isn’t over, here he is again, this time with his wife Maud, in a short excerpt by Paganini - variations on a theme by Rossini, much as his own "giro di tonalità" is a variation on a theme by Rossini www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAS8...

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Paul Tortelier at the BBC

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Maxime Tortelier @mtortelier.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Happy birthday to spring, Johann Sebastian Bach… and my grandfather Paul, shown here in perhaps his last tour de force - performing his own « giro di tonalità » in July 1990, at home with family and friends, only four months before passing away… www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmPV...

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Paul Tortelier, "Giro di Tonalità"

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Maxime Tortelier @mtortelier.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

bsky.app/profile/atru... @mrrickygervais.bsky.social I‘d rather be dead in that situation.. I’m not saying people like that should be, you know, put down

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Maxime Tortelier @mtortelier.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Everyone wants to be a hero! One more rehearsal to go before the French premiere of Richard Dubugnon’s brilliant Concerto Héroïque for saxophone and orchestra, followed by Beethoven’s own Eroica Symphony, with Michel Supéra and the Orchestre de Douai Région Hauts-De-France..

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Maxime Tortelier @mtortelier.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

The caravans, BBC, 1972… impossible not to be reminded of Arthur « two sheds » Jackson! www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLjS...

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Monty Python - Arthur 'Two Sheds' Jackson

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Maxime Tortelier @mtortelier.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

High anticipation ahead of tomorrow, the Paris premiere (about time!) of my dad’s orchestration of Ravel’s magnificent Trio. I grew up with this orchestration, and I daresay it’s the symphony Ravel never wrote! Live or later, the concert can be heard here: www.radiofrance.fr/francemusiqu...

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L'Orchestre National de France ouvre sa saison 2025 /2026 sous le signe de Ravel et Gershwin

Pour ce premier concert parisien de la saison, le National et Cristian Măcelaru invitent le pianiste Rudolf Buchbinder. Ravel et Gershwin sont à l'affiche : d'une valse tourbillonnante à un trio dans ...

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Maxime Tortelier @mtortelier.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

‘A Liberal Democrat source said: "We don't know who to feel more sorry for, Kemi Badenoch or Nigel Farage."’ 😂

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 26/06/2025

100 years of average March-April-May temperature anomalies over land areas through 2025... Data from NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...

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Maxime Tortelier @mtortelier.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

There’s also the story of orchestral musicians shouting their favourite monosyllabic swear word at the same time as the chorus shouts « Slain! » in I can’t remember which work by Handel - and the anecdote of one ill-advised orchestral musician choosing to shout « Bollocks! »…

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Maxime Tortelier @mtortelier.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Nothing like a fractured left elbow and a tendinitis-ridden right wrist to conduct Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 - luckily the Academy of St Mary Le Bow is fully fit, so do come and hear this tremendous orchestra in full swing! maxime-tortelier.com/events/mahle...

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Maxime Tortelier @mtortelier.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

There are also fun weekly challenges, like going from A to B without going via C, going from X to Y in a straight line, going round the Nile without crossing it, etc.

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Maxime Tortelier @mtortelier.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Thanks Lev for the nod at #6! Incidentally I found myself recalling this game only a couple of days ago, having not played it recently, and confusingly I was sure to have discovered it thanks to one of your posts 🤪 Mind’s tricks…

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Maxime Tortelier @mtortelier.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Anything but the « dissonance » quartet 😊

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I’m on my nonsense again. But this week with a BOOK GIVEAWAY. The things are: – Love Songs – Museums – Gun – Birds on ships – Horrible book game – Much nicer typeface game open.substack.com/pub/levparik...

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Six Things, Volume 86

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