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Madeleine Mitchell @madeleinemitchell.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Yes, thank you. It’s the piece that initiated my London Chamber Ensemble years ago. We recorded the work and played it at the BBC Proms etc. It’ll be so interesting seeing the companion play by @jessicaduchen.bsky.social in the first half. This has footage of Stalag VIII youtu.be/XnAADx4o3ok?...

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Madeleine Mitchell violin-Messiaen Quattuor pour la Naissance I

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Devon Book Club @devonbookclub.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I shan't be hosting #devonbookhour this evening but I've had a new idea for our chats. Each month I'll choose two decades and I'd love to hear about the books you'd pick out from those years. To start us off 1810-1820 and 1990-2000. Look forward to the discussion next Monday 😀

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Sung Ju Ahn 안성주 @sungjuahn.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Taught myself to write a novel by writing a historical fiction ⏳📚 set in 1940's Colonial Korea. Here are 200 books that taught me about writing or the world of my story. 🖋️📚 #BookSky #BookTok #Writer #WritingCommunity #EMForster #Edwardian #England #NewWoman #Suffragette #Capitalist 114/200

Book cover of "Howard's End" by E.M. Forster

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Devon Book Club @devonbookclub.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

@rmjbooks.bsky.social hi Mark and thanks for joining our community here as well as on my other platforms. What are you reading at present?

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Phyllis Levin @nothing2lose.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Musk is a nazi. It was easier for him to blame Ukraine with zero evidence. Putin's propagandist within our government.

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Chie @chienakano.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

It was my very first Die Walküre experience, and I'm completely hooked (on the whole Cycle, that is!). That Wotan-Brünnhilde scene in Act III is everything. So many nuanced emotions. My heart was bursting. I could see it 100x and not tire of it. I can't wait to see it again in May at the ROH!

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Classical Crescendo @classicalcrescendo.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

As of now, there's no official announcement about recording this "Jenůfa" production. Keep an ear out though, productions with such praise often find their way to recordings. Corinne Winters is indeed a stunning talent!🎵

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Classical Crescendo @classicalcrescendo.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Broadcasters often adapt to evolving media landscapes and financial challenges. Whether or not Radio 3's transformation is a step towards streaming, maintaining a rich, diverse cultural offering is crucial. Here's hoping they strike the right chord! 🎵

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Mahogany Opera @mahoganyopera.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

We are currently making sure this year's schools have everything they need - including the materials for the children to create their own props and costumes, using eco-friendly materials for new designs created by Anna Bruder.

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Mahogany Opera @mahoganyopera.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Mahogany Opera has strong connections to #Scotland - we were founded in Edinburgh in 2003, our name is an anagram of Hogmanay, and we continue to work with communities in Scotland, so we wish all of our #Scottish friends good health & a Happy Burns Night!

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About Us - Mahogany Opera

Mahogany Opera Group is a leading commissioner and producer of new opera and music theatre.

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Mahogany Opera @mahoganyopera.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

"Sing on, sweet thrush, upon the leafless bough, Sing on, sweet bird, I listen to thy strain, See aged Winter, 'mid his surly reign, At thy blythe carol, clears his furrowed brow." Sláinte Mhath! Oidhche Bhlas Burns! #BurnsNight #RobertBurns

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James Aithie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jamesaithie.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

I highly recommend listening to Guy Garvey's show from this afternoon. He chats to the amazing @elizabethalker.bsky.social, author of Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop, includes a bit on how The Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows was made www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Guy Garvey's Finest Hour - Elizabeth Alker and Everything We Do is Music - BBC Sounds

Guy chats to Elizabeth Alker, author of Everything We Do is Music.

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Timothy Weir @tgweir.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

With the 2026 College Football National Championship now decided, let's remember one of the finest teams in classical music. They didn't make the playoffs this season but kept racking up wins: the revered Marc-Andre Hamelin and the Takacs Quartet on @hyperionrecords.bsky.social.

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Chaski @chaski85.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

On this 40th MLK Day (yes, Chaski is older than MLK Day!) we honor Black composer Florence Price, whose music we have the honor to perform at our upcoming "Women's Work" concerts. 🎶 Come between #protests and bring a friend! #chaski40th @flautadita60.bsky.social @shanahipharpy.bsky.social

"Women's Work" concerts 🎶
Jan. 23 at the Lago Vista Public Library
Feb. 1 at Oak Branch Concerts
https://www.chaskimusic.com

Florence Beatrice Price (née Smith; April 9, 1887 – June 3, 1953) was an American classical composer, pianist, organist and music teacher. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Price was educated at the New England Conservatory of Music, and was active in Chicago from 1927 until her death in 1953. Price is noted as the first African-American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer, and the first to have a composition played by a major orchestra. Price composed over 300 works: four symphonies, four concertos, as well as choral works, art songs, chamber music and music for solo instruments. In 2009, a substantial collection of her works and papers was found in her abandoned summer home.

Visit https://www.chaskimusic.com to learn more about our 40th anniversary season! ¡Visite https://www.chaskimusic.com para obtener más información sobre nuestra temporada del aniversario cuadragésimo!

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MozartCircle @mozartcircle.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

#NewCDmc New 5 December 2025 #MHoneck presents: Requiem: #Mozart's Death in Words and Music! A collection of music & texts in memory of #Mozart with #FMurrayAbraham as narrator! Acclaimed CD @MusicMagazine! @GramophoneMag @classicamag @francemusique.fr prestomusic.com/classical/pr...

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Noise Research @noiseresearch.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

#NowPlaying Symphonies Nos. 5 & 9 - Vaughan Williams (Naxos, 1998) performed by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in 1996. #classical #music #naxos

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Moto Perpetuo @motoperpetuo.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Jordi Savall has been awarded the 2026 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, one of classical music’s highest distinctions. Full story: moto-perpetuo.com/jordi-savall...

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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Happy #NewReleaseFriday! This week my symphony & orchestral #NewReleases playlist goes BIG! Two shots of monster Mahler, a first CD release for the BBC's legendary 1980 performance of Havergal Brian's Gothic Monster, and music by Mendelssohn's great nephew. ▶️ open.qobuz.com/playlist/513...

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9826791--vladimir-jurowski-conducts-mahler-symphony-no-9

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9828878--mahler-das-lied-von-der-erde

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9832222--havergal-brian-symphony-no-1-the-gothic

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9837471--arnold-mendelssohn-symphony-no-2-violin-concerto

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Paul @atticusfinch-105.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

23 January 1927 The first International Chopin Piano Competition began in Warsaw. It has been held every five years ever since and remains one of the most prestigious competitions in classical music. #History #HistoryMatters #Music #chopin

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

As an aside, Mahler 2 would be on my DID At 35 someone handed me a cassette and said have a listen to that. Blown away and those last 20 minutes of 🎇 Still listening to the Boss, Reggae and Hip hop/Grime but 1500 CDs later, classical music started took over my listening habits

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BBC Radio 3 Unwind Now Playing Bot (Unofficial) @bbcradio3ubot.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

BBC Radio 3 Unwind Classical Unwind: Embrace the day with inspiring music Now Playing Erich Wolfgang Korngold Baby Serenade, Op 24 (4th mvt, 'Jazz')

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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 25/01/2026

but also I’ve finally started thinking about “Siegfried” which is the part of the ring I’ve glossed over a thousand times because it’s annoying. these days I feel like it’s the dreamworld version of das Rheingold. the entire thing is also so weird

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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

#TheCompleteBritten #33 Elegy for solo viola (1930) Written the day after he left Gresham's School. Despite the difficulties of his time there, was he sad to go? Unlike 1928's Elegy for Strings, this is mournful throughout, its lamentation rising to an intense climax before subsiding again.

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Britten Elegy - Timothy Ridout Viola

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Mr. Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

2026 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Benjamin Britten (1913-1976). Peter Grimes, the Serenade and War Requiem are among my all time favourite works. This year I'm going to try to listen to every Britten piece, in the order he wrote them. Why not join me? #TheCompleteBritten

A statue of English composer Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), recently unveiled on the seafront of Lowestoft, the town where he was born.

A photograph of composer Benjamin Britten, looking sideways while holding a cup of tea.

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Frank Beck @diehoren.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

The Penguin Guide is still the best one-volume, English-language introduction to classical music. But you won't find it in any bookstore and might think it's out of print. Fortunately, it's still alive and well as an ebook, so you can have it with you wherever you go (see link below).

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Sad Eyed Lady @phdler.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

👆Guernica was painted by Picasso in 1937 in response to the Nazi's blitzkrieg on that town that killed or wounded 1/3 of the city's citizens. It's said during WWII, a Nazi officer, saw a photo of Guernica in Picasso's Paris apartment, and asked "Did you do that?" Picasso replied, "No. You did."

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London Philharmonic Orchestra @lporchestra.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Well, this has made our Friday 🎉 Our album 'Tania León: Horizons, Raices, Stride, Pasajes' has been awarded a Diapason d’or – Diapason magazine’s highest distinction. A huge moment for Tania and the LPO Label! 📀

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Agnieszka @agniesz.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

#GenreRoulette #JazzSky #JazzSunday John Coltrane 🎶 My favourite things youtu.be/JQvc-Gkwhow?...

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David Nice @davidnice.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Such high hopes for Vladimir Jurowski and the @lporchestra.bsky.social in Rudolf Barshai's completion of Mahler's Tenth Symphony. First movement, orchestrated by Mahler himself, perfect; the rest, oversaturated compared to the chamber-musical Deryck Cooke completion. theartsdesk.com/classical-mu...

Vladimir Jurowski conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra in Mahler's Tenth Symphony.

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Chie @chienakano.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

About Saturday’s magnificent LPO/Jurowski's Mahler 10. Mahler’s unfinished Tenth resonated somewhere very deep. My heart thumped with every drumbeat of the finale; I forgot to breathe! A single tear at the flute solo. Mahler’s whispered “Almschi” speaking to anyone who has ever known love and loss.

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LPO/Jurowski review – Mahler’s 10th is full of colour, and the composer’s pain, in Barshai’s completion

Rudolf Barshai’s audacious completion of Marhler’s final unfinished symphony slathers on the colour, and its diverse timbral details came over loud and clear thanks to the LPO’s playing and Vladimir J...

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Jip Leest @jipleest.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Niet het beste weer in Lübeck, maar toch leuk om in de stad van Thomas Mann te lopen en het Buddenbrookhaus te zien.

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PG Kroeger @pgkroegerbb.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Thomas Mann is 150 jaar geleden geboren. Zijn furieus, literair briljant verzet tegen de Nazi's trekt aandacht, mede dankzij de eerste Nederlandse vertaling van zijn hoogst actuele bundel 'Achtung Europa!' uit 1938. #BetrouwbareBronnen mét de eerste druk daarvan! vriendvandeshow.nl/bb/episodes/...

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Felix Bohr @felixbohr.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

10. 8. 1948 „Große Abneigung, nachmittags noch irgend etwas zu tun.“ Thomas Mann, Tagebuch.

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Christian Hoskins @aquilanebula.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Watched "Letter from an Unknown Woman" (1948), currently showing on iPlayer. Although filmed entirely in Hollywood, the evocation of old Vienna is beautifully done. I particularly liked the moment where young Lisa, played by Joan Fontaine, inspects the photographs of Brahms and Mahler on the wall.

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Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

For the music-minded, a review of the Vienna Philharmonic under Andris Nelsons. The program: Mahler and Shostakovich. newcriterion.com/dispatch/two...

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Two No. 10s (only one of them complete) | The New Criterion

On a concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Andris Nelsons.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 08/08/2025

The case of Alma Mahler-Werfel “dramatizes how opportunity, environment, and other contingencies shape artistic careers.” Alex Ross reassesses the life and work of the most legendary widow of the 20th century.

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The Aesthetic Empire of Alma Mahler-Werfel

Notorious for her marriages and affairs, the widow of genius is gaining new attention for her music.

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Caroline Potter @carolinefrmus.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Thrilling moments in #Mahler 3 at the Proms - Beth Taylor, wow! - AND I managed to manoeuvre past the tall blokes in the Arena. Ready for a sit down now

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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Hey y’all! You’re in my new starter pack. Please open the pack, follow all and don’t forget to RP! Thank you! go.bsky.app/9UKWt7d @reneeu.bsky.social

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Juvare @gogge12.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Ukraine is vulnerable now and needs the support of all free people. They have sacrificed troops and civilians defending not only themselves, but Europe, including the United States. The Trump regime clearly does not see the connection between U.S. security and Ukraine's success in Europe.

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one of many heathers @hooperstar.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

“I’ll listen as long as Booker keeps talking!” (Schumer takes the mic) “I could turn it off for awhile …” #DemVibes

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Jane Johnson @janejohnsonbakrim.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

New to Bluesky? Love books? I've compiled a couple of starter packs of interesting British and Irish-based accounts to follow - a selection of writers, industry staff, agents, publishers, bookshops, organisations - just click through and 'Follow All'. This is the 2nd pack go.bsky.app/96xUXZD

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Not Very Good Guy @nvgg.online · 23/01/2025

Search for starter packs for the things that interest you. I found this one searching "starter pack books". go.bsky.app/R8GJ7SJ

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In My Good Books Podcast @inmygoodbookspod.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Looking for some new authors to obsess over in 2025? Here’s my starter packs with some of this year’s debuts! Can’t wait to read their books #BookSky go.bsky.app/RYHeizd

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

For #writers and folks who love all things #bookish, I have two #SmallPress starter packs: Small Press: go.bsky.app/S4HKBuC Academic Press: go.bsky.app/EoXRRgy plus one for Writers' Organizations: go.bsky.app/2uiSCde and I post daily #SmallPress #books info under #DSPBposts. 📚🌍 🌈📚 #Booksky 💙📚 🪐📚

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