Aksel Tollåli
@akseltoll.bsky.social
At the crossroads of 20th century musicology and rampant homosexuality. Dispensary of musical opinion. Classical music critic and editor.
Occasional knitting.
akseltollaali (at) gmail . com
Occasional knitting.
akseltollaali (at) gmail . com
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Featuring:
– An Alma Mahler Labubu
– The Britten Seaside Trauma snow globe
– “Fratres” for Cats
– The “Anna Netrebko Accountability” Advent Calendar
– Lush’s “Shostakovich Panic Attack” bath bomb
– An Alma Mahler Labubu
– The Britten Seaside Trauma snow globe
– “Fratres” for Cats
– The “Anna Netrebko Accountability” Advent Calendar
– Lush’s “Shostakovich Panic Attack” bath bomb
The Ultimate Classical Music Gift Guide for the Terminally Online and Historically-Burdened
Because we've all read too much music theory to be merry.
www.criticaldrift.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Featuring:
– An Alma Mahler Labubu
– The Britten Seaside Trauma snow globe
– “Fratres” for Cats
– The “Anna Netrebko Accountability” Advent Calendar
– Lush’s “Shostakovich Panic Attack” bath bomb
– An Alma Mahler Labubu
– The Britten Seaside Trauma snow globe
– “Fratres” for Cats
– The “Anna Netrebko Accountability” Advent Calendar
– Lush’s “Shostakovich Panic Attack” bath bomb
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Om du vil bidra til å byggje fellesskap, so bør du dele oss med andre. Å spreie ordet om prosjektet til venar, kjende og ukjende er noko av det beste du kan gjere for å støtte Nabolagsverkstaden ✨
spleis.no/nabolagsverkstaden
spleis.no/nabolagsverkstaden
November 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Om du vil bidra til å byggje fellesskap, so bør du dele oss med andre. Å spreie ordet om prosjektet til venar, kjende og ukjende er noko av det beste du kan gjere for å støtte Nabolagsverkstaden ✨
spleis.no/nabolagsverkstaden
spleis.no/nabolagsverkstaden
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Oh, you all think the "Last Christmas" from Vienna is unhinged? That's cute.
The Batshit Classical Holiday Mixtape
John Brown, Bertolt Brecht, and George Michael
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Oh, you all think the "Last Christmas" from Vienna is unhinged? That's cute.
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Dette er bra.
når hjertet sidder mest beklemt,
da bliver frydens harpe stemt,
at den kan bedre klinge;
og knuste hjerter føler bedst,
hvad denne store frydefest
for glæde har at bringe.
når hjertet sidder mest beklemt,
da bliver frydens harpe stemt,
at den kan bedre klinge;
og knuste hjerter føler bedst,
hvad denne store frydefest
for glæde har at bringe.
December 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Dette er bra.
når hjertet sidder mest beklemt,
da bliver frydens harpe stemt,
at den kan bedre klinge;
og knuste hjerter føler bedst,
hvad denne store frydefest
for glæde har at bringe.
når hjertet sidder mest beklemt,
da bliver frydens harpe stemt,
at den kan bedre klinge;
og knuste hjerter føler bedst,
hvad denne store frydefest
for glæde har at bringe.
Alle Brorson-julesalmene som egentlig handler om å være helt enormt deprimert og at vi skal dø snart, helt spesifikt femte og sjette vers av I denne søte juletid (mel. etter Ola O. Fagerheim)
Og juleplata til Sharon Jones, spesielt Big Bulbs youtu.be/iRENaUQc5No?...
Og juleplata til Sharon Jones, spesielt Big Bulbs youtu.be/iRENaUQc5No?...
December 2, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Alle Brorson-julesalmene som egentlig handler om å være helt enormt deprimert og at vi skal dø snart, helt spesifikt femte og sjette vers av I denne søte juletid (mel. etter Ola O. Fagerheim)
Og juleplata til Sharon Jones, spesielt Big Bulbs youtu.be/iRENaUQc5No?...
Og juleplata til Sharon Jones, spesielt Big Bulbs youtu.be/iRENaUQc5No?...
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tjejer tänker bara på en sak (Lenin)
November 30, 2025 at 7:29 AM
tjejer tänker bara på en sak (Lenin)
Seeing West Side Story but in Danish helppp
November 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Seeing West Side Story but in Danish helppp
Happy 90th, Opa Helmut! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aco1...
mit Opa Helmut am Klavier
YouTube video by Kyoko Winter
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Happy 90th, Opa Helmut! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aco1...
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Snakk for deg selv. Noen av oss er feite og ulykkelige.
November 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Snakk for deg selv. Noen av oss er feite og ulykkelige.
Honestly, all I want from life is Put On Your Sunday Clothes from the original German recording of Hello Dolly featuring René Kollo to be back on the internet
November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Honestly, all I want from life is Put On Your Sunday Clothes from the original German recording of Hello Dolly featuring René Kollo to be back on the internet
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Zurück, Tochter Babylons!
Komm dem Erwählten des Herrn nicht nahe!
Deine Mutter hat die Erde erfülltmit
dem Wein ihrer Sünden schreit zu Gott!
Komm dem Erwählten des Herrn nicht nahe!
Deine Mutter hat die Erde erfülltmit
dem Wein ihrer Sünden schreit zu Gott!
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
Please don't take him even though you can
Please don't take him even though you can
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Zurück, Tochter Babylons!
Komm dem Erwählten des Herrn nicht nahe!
Deine Mutter hat die Erde erfülltmit
dem Wein ihrer Sünden schreit zu Gott!
Komm dem Erwählten des Herrn nicht nahe!
Deine Mutter hat die Erde erfülltmit
dem Wein ihrer Sünden schreit zu Gott!
Ser at julepyntediskursen er i full gang og skjønner at tid er et menneskeskapt konsept som ikke betyr noe, men vent nå for Guds skyld i det minste til kirkeåret er over og hold det gående til kyndelsmesse. Januar er jo mye mer trøstesløs enn november.
November 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Ser at julepyntediskursen er i full gang og skjønner at tid er et menneskeskapt konsept som ikke betyr noe, men vent nå for Guds skyld i det minste til kirkeåret er over og hold det gående til kyndelsmesse. Januar er jo mye mer trøstesløs enn november.
Jeg er i Ålesund på matinéforestilling, med omtrent 30 år opp til nest yngste publikummer. De serverer svele og kaffe i baren og det aller meste (i alle fall en del) er godt her i verden.
November 21, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Jeg er i Ålesund på matinéforestilling, med omtrent 30 år opp til nest yngste publikummer. De serverer svele og kaffe i baren og det aller meste (i alle fall en del) er godt her i verden.
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jenter vil ikke ha gutter, jenter vil ha nynorsk
November 20, 2025 at 6:57 AM
jenter vil ikke ha gutter, jenter vil ha nynorsk
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Universal first-name basis is a great and wondrous gift that the Nordics are offering to the world, that we've been impatiently waiting for like half a century for them to pick up.
November 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Universal first-name basis is a great and wondrous gift that the Nordics are offering to the world, that we've been impatiently waiting for like half a century for them to pick up.
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Happening right now: BWV 1178 and BWV 1179!
(Bach compositions with BWV numbers as high as this are typically highly unstable and decay rapidly, releasing fugal radiation in the process. Catch them before it happens.)
(Bach compositions with BWV numbers as high as this are typically highly unstable and decay rapidly, releasing fugal radiation in the process. Catch them before it happens.)
Two newly discovered Bach keyboard works are premiering in 1 hour
November 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Happening right now: BWV 1178 and BWV 1179!
(Bach compositions with BWV numbers as high as this are typically highly unstable and decay rapidly, releasing fugal radiation in the process. Catch them before it happens.)
(Bach compositions with BWV numbers as high as this are typically highly unstable and decay rapidly, releasing fugal radiation in the process. Catch them before it happens.)
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Two newly discovered Bach keyboard works are premiering in 1 hour
November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Two newly discovered Bach keyboard works are premiering in 1 hour
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feel like pure shit just want them back x www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiPJ...
Concerto in D minor for 2 oboes, RV 535 - Vivaldi
YouTube video by VivaldiGuys
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2024 at 9:50 AM
feel like pure shit just want them back x www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiPJ...
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With its recent associations with Lydia Tar and Jeffrey Epstein, do we need to rehabilitate Mahler 5's public image?
November 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
With its recent associations with Lydia Tar and Jeffrey Epstein, do we need to rehabilitate Mahler 5's public image?
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“Queer theory…is in its flop era.” My review of Kay Gabriel’s PERVERTS is out today in @thebaffler.com. Kay’s book is a funny and true antidote to the cheap sentiment of bad queer discourse, a reckoning with sex/gender as pleasure center and system requiring defeat. thebaffler.com/latest/we-wa...
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
“Queer theory…is in its flop era.” My review of Kay Gabriel’s PERVERTS is out today in @thebaffler.com. Kay’s book is a funny and true antidote to the cheap sentiment of bad queer discourse, a reckoning with sex/gender as pleasure center and system requiring defeat. thebaffler.com/latest/we-wa...
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du er ikke målgruppen
November 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
du er ikke målgruppen
Noen må nesten sette foten ned og si NEI til spanjolene snart
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Noen må nesten sette foten ned og si NEI til spanjolene snart
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Excellent news - keep up the good work everybody
November 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Excellent news - keep up the good work everybody
The children yearn for the Catalan Pyrenees
November 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The children yearn for the Catalan Pyrenees
Trapped! on a bus going through Central Catalonia with about 40 15-year-olds and all their attendant smells and odours.
November 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Trapped! on a bus going through Central Catalonia with about 40 15-year-olds and all their attendant smells and odours.