The Symphonist
@deeplyclassical.bsky.social
Passionate symphony lover. Other music is good too.
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#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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Teresa Stich-Randall singing Jesu, komm in meine Seele from Machet die Tore weit, Telemann's cantata for the first Sunday in Advent.
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Teresa Stich-Randall unearthly beautiful Telemann aria
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November 30, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Teresa Stich-Randall singing Jesu, komm in meine Seele from Machet die Tore weit, Telemann's cantata for the first Sunday in Advent.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t0M...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t0M...
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The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
A windy start to Sunday, with symphonies resourcefully arranged for the wind bands (Harmonie) maintained by the Austrian nobility for outdoor entertainment, and as a cheaper alternative to a full orchestra when fighting Napoleon got too costly.
#NowListening #NewReleases2025 #240
#NowListening #NewReleases2025 #240
November 30, 2025 at 8:31 AM
A windy start to Sunday, with symphonies resourcefully arranged for the wind bands (Harmonie) maintained by the Austrian nobility for outdoor entertainment, and as a cheaper alternative to a full orchestra when fighting Napoleon got too costly.
#NowListening #NewReleases2025 #240
#NowListening #NewReleases2025 #240
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When I was young, I thought classical music was only the background noise for cartoons.
November 29, 2025 at 8:53 AM
When I was young, I thought classical music was only the background noise for cartoons.
Strapping myself in for Schubert's longest song. Too big for Fischer-Dieskau, but Martyn Hill and Graham Johnson on Hyperion know no fear. This Schubert odyssey is such a wonderful journey.
#NowListening #A-Schubert-A-Day #SchubertSaturday
#NowListening #A-Schubert-A-Day #SchubertSaturday
November 29, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Strapping myself in for Schubert's longest song. Too big for Fischer-Dieskau, but Martyn Hill and Graham Johnson on Hyperion know no fear. This Schubert odyssey is such a wonderful journey.
#NowListening #A-Schubert-A-Day #SchubertSaturday
#NowListening #A-Schubert-A-Day #SchubertSaturday
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"Black Friday" should only ever mean this...
November 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"Black Friday" should only ever mean this...
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Happy #NewReleaseFriday! Hooray! I've got the day off work, but boo! I'm going back to school. Hang on, who's my schoolmaster? Double hooray! it's Haydn! It's true, school days are the happiest days of your life!
Let lessons begin #NowListening ▶️ spoti.fi/400asdn
Let lessons begin #NowListening ▶️ spoti.fi/400asdn
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Happy #NewReleaseFriday! Hooray! I've got the day off work, but boo! I'm going back to school. Hang on, who's my schoolmaster? Double hooray! it's Haydn! It's true, school days are the happiest days of your life!
Let lessons begin #NowListening ▶️ spoti.fi/400asdn
Let lessons begin #NowListening ▶️ spoti.fi/400asdn
@loveinner.bsky.social Some of Maazel's most interesting recordings on this 14 CD #NewRelease
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 AM
@loveinner.bsky.social Some of Maazel's most interesting recordings on this 14 CD #NewRelease
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I blame the "fetishes" part of "AI fetishes and knives" for reminding me of "Polkas, schottishes and waltzes."
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 AM
I blame the "fetishes" part of "AI fetishes and knives" for reminding me of "Polkas, schottishes and waltzes."
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On this date in 1760, Franz Josef Haydn married Maria Keller, the eldest daughter of a Viennese wig-maker. Their 40-year marriage was mostly miserable; Maria disliked music and couldn't recognize his genius. He claimed "it made me not indifferent to the charms of other women."
November 26, 2025 at 4:28 AM
On this date in 1760, Franz Josef Haydn married Maria Keller, the eldest daughter of a Viennese wig-maker. Their 40-year marriage was mostly miserable; Maria disliked music and couldn't recognize his genius. He claimed "it made me not indifferent to the charms of other women."
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Proud to find my definition of 'super trouper' on p.651 of the 2024 edition of @vizcomic.bsky.social's disgusting work of genius, Roger's Profanisaurus
November 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Proud to find my definition of 'super trouper' on p.651 of the 2024 edition of @vizcomic.bsky.social's disgusting work of genius, Roger's Profanisaurus
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The final version of Sibelius's Fifth Symphony (of swan fame) was premiered today in 1919. Sibelius conducted the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. The original version was first performed in 1915.
November 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The final version of Sibelius's Fifth Symphony (of swan fame) was premiered today in 1919. Sibelius conducted the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. The original version was first performed in 1915.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
@loveinner.bsky.social Saw this and thought of you.
I find gin fends off most of the disquiet 🍸
This time on Sunday is great for affirmations & goal setting.
By which I mean limbering up to let vague existential disquiet descend into the certainty that life so far has been a pointless, humiliating failure, with all the jaunty inexorability of a slinky pouring arse over arse down a staircase
By which I mean limbering up to let vague existential disquiet descend into the certainty that life so far has been a pointless, humiliating failure, with all the jaunty inexorability of a slinky pouring arse over arse down a staircase
November 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I find gin fends off most of the disquiet 🍸
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You: I’m combining breakfast and lunch. Brunch.
Me: I’m combining wine and dinner. Winner.
Me: I’m combining wine and dinner. Winner.
November 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
You: I’m combining breakfast and lunch. Brunch.
Me: I’m combining wine and dinner. Winner.
Me: I’m combining wine and dinner. Winner.
My first boulevardier of the season is only one way I'm warming up my winter evenings
#NowWatching #NowDrinking
#NowWatching #NowDrinking
November 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
My first boulevardier of the season is only one way I'm warming up my winter evenings
#NowWatching #NowDrinking
#NowWatching #NowDrinking
If Haydn's the Father of the symphony, then Johann Stamitz (1717-1757) is one of the genre's great-uncles. These slight but charming symphonies, likely among his earliest, make agreeable semi-background listening on a Sunday afternoon.
#NewReleases2025 #233
#NewReleases2025 #233
November 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
If Haydn's the Father of the symphony, then Johann Stamitz (1717-1757) is one of the genre's great-uncles. These slight but charming symphonies, likely among his earliest, make agreeable semi-background listening on a Sunday afternoon.
#NewReleases2025 #233
#NewReleases2025 #233
My hectic schedule forces #NewReleaseFriday back by two whole days 🙀 in a week featuring not only one Coleridge-Taylor, but a pair: @jkaconductor.bsky.social & Samantha Ege give us the first ever album dedicated to Avril, while her dad gets a 150th birthday bash.
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Try them here ▶️ spoti.fi/400asdn
November 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
My hectic schedule forces #NewReleaseFriday back by two whole days 🙀 in a week featuring not only one Coleridge-Taylor, but a pair: @jkaconductor.bsky.social & Samantha Ege give us the first ever album dedicated to Avril, while her dad gets a 150th birthday bash.
Try them here ▶️ spoti.fi/400asdn
Try them here ▶️ spoti.fi/400asdn
Even the most enthusiastic symphony fan might wonder if the world really needs more recordings of these warhorses, but I found the 5th exciting, gripping and fresh. I was less keen on the 6th, but No. 5 is well worth hearing, no matter how well you think you know it.
#NewReleases2025 #231
#NewReleases2025 #231
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Even the most enthusiastic symphony fan might wonder if the world really needs more recordings of these warhorses, but I found the 5th exciting, gripping and fresh. I was less keen on the 6th, but No. 5 is well worth hearing, no matter how well you think you know it.
#NewReleases2025 #231
#NewReleases2025 #231
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It's Mackerras 100 on BBCRadio3 today. The great Australian conductor Charles Mackerras born on this day in 1925. Breakfast is packed full of his recordings and we'll get to hear him in interviews as we plunder the BBC archives. 6.30-9.30.
November 17, 2025 at 7:11 AM
It's Mackerras 100 on BBCRadio3 today. The great Australian conductor Charles Mackerras born on this day in 1925. Breakfast is packed full of his recordings and we'll get to hear him in interviews as we plunder the BBC archives. 6.30-9.30.
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THREAD. A collection of photographs of the best scarecrows I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
THREAD. A collection of photographs of the best scarecrows I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
Whenever my youngest niece comes to stay, we go to the HMV shop, and I always come home with some new films to help me relax.
#NowDrinking #NowWatching
#NowDrinking #NowWatching
November 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Whenever my youngest niece comes to stay, we go to the HMV shop, and I always come home with some new films to help me relax.
#NowDrinking #NowWatching
#NowDrinking #NowWatching
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![Sign taped to the wall in a toilet: "PLEASE hold Handel down when flushing"
['Handel' spelled as in the composer, rather than as in the thing you push or turn]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:criiz7t67jzchq7m6plznv7f/bafkreiarzcrlhq6qj2z5tfxuhbi2ae5shgst4n2ugdat6y5wnbdevtnufi@jpeg)