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Tom Gething @thomgething.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

House of Bamboo (dir. Sam Fuller, 1955)

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Tom Gething @thomgething.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

It did take me some time to gather and read all the Maigret novels but it was worth it.

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Tom Gething @thomgething.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I think what No More Marking is using with AI has great value as it privileges the teacher's feedback. Neil Almond @mralmonded.bsky.social shared this water resistance simulator he created with Claude (prompt attached). claude.ai/public/artif... I think this might also have value at some point.

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Tom Gething @thomgething.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

So many wonderful recordings. I just wish Abbado had made his first recording with the LSO rather than the VPO - the concurrent live performance was supreme.

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Tom Gething @thomgething.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

It was with the LSO in the 90s; Mozart's final three symphonies were on the rest of the programs. They recorded all 5 with the VPO around the same time. I have a soft spot for Brendel's later Brahms PCs with Abbado/BPO. The D minor is a wonderful performance, closer to being symphonic.

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Tom Gething @thomgething.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

I really hope somebody translates this book because I might have to learn French. What was it that George Eliot wrote? "Character is a process and an unfolding"

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Tom Gething @thomgething.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Oh, that's exciting. There's No Home was one of the best novels I read last year.

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Tom Gething @thomgething.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Mark Elder's Elgar with the Halle has been a modern miracle. In The South is a spectacular accompaniment to the No.1. Del Mar's Enigma is also very special. And nothing quite matches Kennedy's first VC. Downes is criminally underrated.

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Tom Gething @thomgething.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Are there any inferior recordings of this wonderful concerto? Here are three others I enjoy. I am still hoping that one day Viktoria Mullova set it down. I have a feeling it would be extraordinary.

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Tom Gething @thomgething.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I remember discovering the Octet and later op.118, both very special.

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Tom Gething @thomgething.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

All of the above are great, so I chose two more unsung recordings. Late Mackerras is always wonderful and the Chung disc comes from a period where I though he would become a recording star, such was the quality of his music making. Such a pity he didn't get a chance with the Concertgebouw...

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Tom Gething @thomgething.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I can only narrow it to four recordings:

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Tom Gething @thomgething.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I will always have the biggest crush on the Abbado/VPO set as it was my first. I could have included Jarvi but wanted to give to Immerseel and Schmidt-Isserstedt's wonderfully old school set.

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Tom Gething @thomgething.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

That Brendel/Abbado recording is to my ears special, austere enough to be sublime like a gothic cathedral that is both majestic and granite cold. I love the Zimerman/Bernstein recording, weird and slow as it is. Also Vogt, Buchbinder/Harnoncourt and Melnikov/Bolton. And the 4-hand version is fun.

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Tom Gething @thomgething.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Why is it that I see this and just get very excited? Any new recording from Krystian Zimerman is cause for celebration.

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Tom Gething @thomgething.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Hard to pick. Decided to avoid Beethoven. Really wanted to include Pollini's Schoenberg, but here we go. I think the Brendel/Abbado Brahms 1 is seriously underrated.

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Tom Gething @thomgething.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

#FavouriteDiscs Not all of these were released in 2024 but I found each of these compelling from the first play. The Brautigam was my personal disc of the year - bias plays a part though as I find him compelling in everything he does.

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