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Tim Ashley

@timashash.bsky.social

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Writer, critic, gay, likes decadent French, German and Italian literature, can sometimes be found slouching around in leather. I live in Sussex by the sea. #TeamRacine #TeamFlaubert #TeamFranzWerfel

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⚜️ Royal Blood ⚜️ @royalblood1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Richard Strauss died on this day in 1949. So here's Act II of Rosenkavalier withKarl Böhm conducting the Dresden Staatskapelle in 1958. Irmgard Seefried and Rita Streich are simply incomparable as Octavian and Sophie. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

[High quality]R.Strauss - Der Rosenkavalier Act-2/Karl Böhm & Staatskapelle Dresden,Irmgard Seefried

YouTube video by Tsubame Classics

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera was first performed in Berlin on this day in 1928. So here's some extraordinary footage from the mid 1960s of Lotte Lenya singing Pirate Jenny, in English, in Marc Blitzstein's translation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZec...

Kurt Weill & Bertolt Brecht - Pirate Jenny (Sung by Lotte Lenya)

YouTube video by Mr. Egerman

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⚜️ Royal Blood ⚜️ @royalblood1.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

🥀 Am 27. August 1969 starb Erika Mann 🇩🇪 „Die Fremde ist herrlich, solange es eine Heimat gibt, die wartet.“

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Saddened beyond belief to hear that Dolly Parton has died. Just feels like the end of an era. A legend, and an icon, and a most wonderful human being. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aoks...

Dolly Parton-Yellow roses

YouTube video by dollypartonapplejack

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Debussy was born on this day in 1862. Elly Ameling sings Trois chansons de Bilitis with Rudolf Jansen at the piano. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnvA...

Elly Ameling; Trois Chansons de Bilitis - Debussy

YouTube video by Elly Ameling

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Ileana Cotrubas singing Je vais le voir from Berlioz's Béatrice et Bénédict with the Orchestre de Paris and Daniel Barenboim in 1982. A most lovely artist and a favourite recording. RIP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSAu...

Berlioz: Béatrice et Bénédict / Act 1: Je vais le voir

YouTube video by Ileana Cotrubas - Topic

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Immersing myself in Liszt's Dante Symphony for a new Collection piece for Gramophone. It's a work I so love, and it's a joy and a privilege to be spending time with it.

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Good heavens, rain!! It's lasted all of three minutes, but rain nevertheless ........

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Since the temperature outside is disgusting already, I'm staying in and catching up with Rienzi from Bayreuth online ......

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⚜️ Royal Blood ⚜️ @royalblood1.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This eerie twilight. And the seabirds are silent.

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I am settling in for an eclipse ....... www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t4Q...

Air: Total eclipse!: Handel: Samson

YouTube video by Harry Christophers - Topic

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⚜️ Royal Blood ⚜️ @royalblood1.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Franz Liszt died in Bayreuth on this day in 1886. So here is the Dante Sonata played by Jorge Bolet, a live recording from 1979 www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSBk...

Jorge Bolet plays Liszt 'Dante' Sonata 'live' in 1979

YouTube video by The Piano Files

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⚜️ Royal Blood ⚜️ @royalblood1.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Ein Angriff auf dich ist ein Angriff auf uns alle.

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Words fail a bit really, but my thoughts and solidarity are with Berlin after the appalling attack at Christopher Street Day yesterday. LGBTQIA+phobia will never defeat us. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I shall remember this summer as the summer of brown lawns. There is hardly any green any more. It's obscenely hot again this afternoon, so I'm afraid I'm staying in ..........

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Francesco Cilea was born on this day in 1866. Ariana Lecouvreur is a most wonderful opera (in my humble opinion), so here's Elena Obraztsova as the Princesse de Bouillon singing (and how!) Acerba voluttà in Tokyo in 1980 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb4k...

Elena Obraztsova - Adriana Lecouvreur - Acerba volutta

YouTube video by Gabba02

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Synge's Collected Plays, above all Deirdre of the Sorrows and Riders to the Sea. Some of the greatest and most beautiful dramatic language there is

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Eleanor Steber as the Empress in Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten (Act II Scene 4, and the closing scenes of Act III) in Vienna in 1953, with the Vienna Philharmonic and Karl Böhm. One of the greatest sopranos of the 20th century, Steber was born on this day in 1914. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6-7...

Eleanor Steber; Set Svanholm; Christel Goltz; "DIE FRAU OHNE SCHATTEN"; (Excerpts); R. Strauss

YouTube video by Lieder & Opera Greats

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David Benedict @eggsbened.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Hats off to whoever created this.

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Gian-Carlo Menotti was born on this day in 1911. So here is a 1960 American television production of The Consul, with the great Patricia Neway giving one of the most remarkable performances you will ever see as Magda, the role she created in 1950. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj7K...

The Consul - Menotti 4K

YouTube video by David Sukonick

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⚜️ Royal Blood ⚜️ @royalblood1.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Christoph Willibald Gluck was born on this day in 1714. So here is Erich Kleiber's broadcast of Iphigénie en Tauride from the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires in 1937, with Anny Konetzni, Martial Singher, Kolomon von Pataky and Jaro Prohaska www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Py...

Gluck: Iphigenie auf Tauris (Kleiber; Konetzni, Singher, von Pataky) 1937

YouTube video by Maria Callas’ No. 1 fan

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Adolphe Adam's ballet Giselle was first performed in Paris on this day in 1841. This is a performance by the Bolshoi, filmed during their visit to Covent Garden in 1956, with Galina Ulanova in the title role. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruXW...

Giselle - Galina Ulanova 1956 (Full Ballet) Bolshoi Ballet

YouTube video by Ann Drogyne

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

That moment when the cold tap no longer runs cold ....... 😳

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Spending some time with one of my very favourite operas for an Explorations piece for Gramophone Magazine

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Anneliese Rothenberger was (possibly) born on this day in 1924. A wonderful singer, lovely in Mozart and operetta, and still arguably the greatest Lulu of them all. 👇 (Yes, it's the two act version, but you can't have everything .......) www.youtube.com/watch?v=SByU...

Berg "Lulu" Rothenberger/Meyer/Blankenheim/Ludwig

YouTube video by Addiobelpassato

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Aram Khachaturian was born on this day in 1903. A wonderful composer, you can't beat his ballets. Here is is conducting act III of his own Gayaneh at the Bolshoi in 1964 - grimy footage but some fabulous dancing www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYrk...

Aram Khachaturian - Gayane

YouTube video by History&MusicVoyage

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Born OTD in 1494, Jacopo Pontormo. I love this man's drawings. Here he reveals himself to be a briefs kind of guy.

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Henrik Ibsen died 120 years ago today. So here's Elijah Moshinsky's 1987 BBC production of Ghosts, with Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Michael Gambon and Natasha Richardson. I've posted it before, but it's one of the truly great things, and its's time to watch it again www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD-0...

Ghosts - Judi Dench - Kenneth Branagh - Michael Gambon - Ibsen - Multiple Subtitles - 1987 - 4K

YouTube video by Shakespeare Network

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride was first performed in Paris on this day in 1779. This is Erich Klieber's live 1937 performance from the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. The cast includes Anny Konetzni, Martial Singher, Koloman von Pataky and Jaro Prohaska www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Py...

Gluck: Iphigenie auf Tauris (Kleiber; Konetzni, Singher, von Pataky) 1937

YouTube video by Maria Callas’ No. 1 fan

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Felicity Lott singing Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen from Mahler's Rückert Lieder with Maciej Pikulski at the piano. For Mahler also, who died 115 years ago today. music.youtube.com/watch?v=nSiD...

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Felicity Lott et Maciej Pikulski - Mahler - Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

YouTube video by Le Pavé Libre

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Felicity Lott singing Duparc's Phidylé with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Armin Jordan. We have lost a legend. RIP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO2P...

Felicity Lott: Phidylé by Duparc

YouTube video by Operazaile operazaile

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

God, it's cold down here today. Were it not for leaves on trees, and cataclysmic hay fever sneezing, you'd think we were in the middle of winter ........ 🥶

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The great Austrian-born actress Elisabeth Bergner died forty years ago today. Here she is as Rosalind in the 1936 film of As You Like It, directed by her husband Paul Czinner. Laurence Olivier is her Orlando, and the score is by William Walton. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_Gg...

As you like it (1936) Laurence Olivier, Elisabeth Bergner | Shakespeare’s Forest of Love & Lies

YouTube video by Cult Cinema Classics

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

On what would have been her 90th birthday, Glenda Jackson's extraordinary 1975 Hedda Gabler, directed by Trevor Nunn. You need to make allowances for the upload, which swivels between colour and black and white, for some reason, but it is utterly compelling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOZJ...

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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Doesn't matter if the performance itself is staged. The fact is, talented musicians coming together and giving a performance in a public space means the masses get to witness this for free and that's beautiful. TT: Raphaël Froissart IG: Michel Tirabosco ~ Pan flute

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Johannes Brahms was born on this day in 1833. So here's the Alto Rhapsody sung by Brigitte Fassbaender, The Prague Philharmonic Choir and Czech Philharmonic Orchestra are conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWJz...

Brigitte Fassbaender: Alto Rhapsody by Brahms

YouTube video by Operazaile operazaile

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Puccini's Turandot was first performed 100 years ago today. Frankly, I've blown hot and cold about it over the years. But Teresa Stich-Randall singing Signore, ascolta gets me every time...... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yzbc...

Teresa Stich-Randall - Turandot: "Signore, ascolta"

YouTube video by spoletta0

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Really saddened to hear that Michael Tilson Thomas died yesterday. A wonderful conductor. So many fine performances, but I loved his Tchaikovsky, particularly Suite No 3, a revelation, both live and on disc. RIP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrD8...

Tchaikovsky : Suite No. 3 in G major for orchestra Op. 55 (1884)

YouTube video by Rodders

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

As today marks the anniversary of Shakespeare's birth (possibly) and death, here's Fauré's Shylock. MIchel Plasson conducts the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. Nicolai Gedda is the tenor soloist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXGF...

G. Fauré - Shylock, Suite from the incidental music Op. 57 [SCORE VIDEO]

YouTube video by Composer's Canvas

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Charles Styles singing Der Doppelgänger from Schubert's Schwanengesang www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwdK...

Der Doppelgänger, D. 957 No. 13 — Schubert

YouTube video by Charles Styles

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Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Well, it seems to be one of those days. So far my watch has broken. And the vacuum cleaner has blown up. Next? 🙄

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

My first Gramophone Magazine Icons piece on the great Eleanor Steber (well, it would be, wouldn't it) is in the May issue, where you'll also find me writing about Joan Sutherland and Sondra Radvanovsky

Tim Ashley @timashash.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Meanwhile, hay fever has begun .... 🤧

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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Definitely one of the great covers in music history ….

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Mark Berry @boulezian.eurosky.social · 09/04/2026

Salzburg Easter Festival (3) - Das Rheingold, 6 April 2026 boulezian.blogspot.com/2026/04/salz...

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Salzburg Easter Festival (3) - Das Rheingold, 6 April 2026

Felsenreitschule Images: Frol Podlesnyi Performers: Olade Roland Rodolpho Sagbo, Delavallet Bidiefono, Roméo Bron Bi Director – Kirill Sereb...