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The Symphonist
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Passionate symphony lover. Other music is good too.
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The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · Mar 31
#A-Haydn-A-Day is back! As before, I'm putting my favourite recording of each work on a playlist. It's more justified to call Haydn The Father of the String Quartet than of the symphony, as in this case he more-or-less invented the medium.
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The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 8h
FYI @brenttoderian.bsky.social
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The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 12h
Oops! I accidentally listened to the 2nd version sung by Martyn Hill in place of this one and had to go back to hear Christine Schäfer sing it a semitone higher. No trial when it's such a great song.
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The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 12h
Fantastic! Franz always pulls something special out of the bag when he sets Goethe.
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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 1d
When I get that feeling
I need saxophone cleaning
Someone cleaning their saxophone
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The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 2d
Played by the Navel Ass Quartet?
a cartoon of spongebob saying " ayy !! i 'll let myself out "
ALT: a cartoon of spongebob saying " ayy !! i 'll let myself out "
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 3d
The headline news that won't be headline news.
'A tragedy': World may have reached first climate 'tipping point' as coral reefs face collapse
Warm-water coral reefs - on which a billion people and a quarter of all marine life depend - are on the brink of collapse, according to a major new scientific study
www.businessgreen.com
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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 2d
When it's a scene at night, books should switch to white writing on a black page
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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 4d
I'll be amazed if #NewReleases2025 #196 isn't my chamber music record of the year. Phenomenal music, phenomenally performed in magnificent sound. Every hair-raising note had me on the edge of my seat ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Album cover for Martinů String Quartets 2-3-5-7. Pavel Haas Quartet. Supraphon SU43682. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9799881--martin-string-quartets-2-3-5-7
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The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 3d
Sadly the wolf doesn't sing.
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The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 3d
It's Brahms o'clock!
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The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 3d
I get the sneaking feeling Piemontesi is having to try not to laugh as the picture is taken.
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The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 3d
A monster lied in more ways than one - there's even a werewolf in it!
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The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 3d
Brahms, eh?
I mean, BRAHMS!!!
#NowListening #NewReleases2025 #197
Album cover for Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Three Intermezzi Op. 117. Francesco Piemontesi (piano), Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Manfred Honeck. Pentatone PTC5187461. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9798471--brahms-piano-concerto-no-2-three-intermezzi-op-117
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John Andrews @jkaconductor.bsky.social · 3d
Awful news - if anyone can help Sascha:
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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 4d
My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.
Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already. It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.
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The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 4d
Does the world need another mid-range Shostakovich cycle?
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Micaela Baranello @micaelab.bsky.social · 4d
Bruckner critical edition project
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🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 4d
Ralph Vaughan Williams, wrestling with the psychological & aesthetic aftermath of the Great War, in which he served as an ambulance orderly, has been on my mind lately. Today is his 153rd birthday. A profoundly misunderstood artist. A few of my recent threads about him are below👇 @vwfndn.bsky.social
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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 23d
No composer is less understood than Vaughan Williams. Walking earlier I listened to his 5th symphony. Quiet evening. Modest clouds lofted on cool sky. I bit my lower lip to stay tears, hearing not mawkishness but desperate & sometimes failing attempts to soften the Great War’s horror into melancholy
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Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 4d
Today marks the birthday of a true giant of British music - Ralph Vaughan Williams.

The Vaughan Williams Foundation is a grant-giving charity which upholds the values and vision of the celebrated composer and his wife, Ursula.

💻 Find out more via our website 👇
Vaughan Williams Foundation
Welcome to the Vaughan Williams Foundation – one of the foremost sources of funding for recent and contemporary music in the UK.
vaughanwilliamsfoundation.org
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 4d
In the superb Handel/Hendrix house in Mayfair. They let me dress up as both at once. As they point out, they are celebrating two immigrants to London
Me sitting wearing a blue frock coat with gold decorations.
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The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 4d
I'll be amazed if #NewReleases2025 #196 isn't my chamber music record of the year. Phenomenal music, phenomenally performed in magnificent sound. Every hair-raising note had me on the edge of my seat ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Album cover for Martinů String Quartets 2-3-5-7. Pavel Haas Quartet. Supraphon SU43682. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9799881--martin-string-quartets-2-3-5-7
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The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 4d
Fangs for this! 🤣
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The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 4d
Happy #NewReleaseFriday! Thanks to a lovely and much-needed holiday in the Lake District, it's even more inaccurately named than last week. My playlist sounds more apt for #ShostakovichSunday, with the start of a new symphony cycle plus rare incidental music.

Sample them here ▶️ spoti.fi/400asdn
Album cover for Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 (Complete Symphonies, Vol. 1). Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Alain Altinoglu. Alpha Classics ALPHA1173. https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9798957--shostakovich-symphonies-nos-4-5-complete-symphonies-vol-1
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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 4d
and I feel fine
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jamma10.bsky.social @jamma10.bsky.social · 5d
Toilet, Bristol UK circa 2015
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The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 4d
I think he called Bruno "Bro".
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The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 4d
Not to Sibelius, but to Bruno Walter about Symphony No. 3.
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