Caroline Potter

Grumpy animal statues and a bisected horse. Barrage Vauban #Strasbourg, currently being renovated

The ridiculously picturesque Petite France #Strasbourg

#Liszt got everywhere, including this building in #Strasbourg when he was 12 - his first public concert in France 🇫🇷🇭🇺🎹

Loving being back in #Strasbourg where I lived for a year as a student on the fifth floor of this building, 27 rue du Dôme, overlooking the cathedral

Patisserie novelties in Saint-Louis: green apple, French kiss 🇫🇷🍏💋

#Basel is generally a very polite sort of city, but then there's also this exuberantly bearded figure sticking his tongue out

#Boulez preface to published version of 'Antiphonie' (Third Piano Sonata): 'The devil for me is hidden in a labyrinth'

#Basel looking splendid this late afternoon

Waking up in Saint-Louis (France), heading to Basel (Switzerland) and can see the border from my window. I will never not get excited by crossing a land border on foot

The excellent musical instrument museum in Brussels on their ondes Martenot: www.mim.be/en/collectio...

Fin de partie: Making a Song and Dance About it Reviews and articles have generally approached Kurtág’s opera by way of the Beckett play on which it draws, a natural consequence of the composer’s openly stated admiration for Beckett, and for thi...

More Kurtág: link to my article in CMR

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/XAMQ6...

Congratulations! 🎉🍾

Great to see Marche gaie by Lili #Boulanger performed in London on 4 March @royalphilorchestra.bsky.social @cadoganhall.bsky.social - sorry I can't go. Here's a picture of her: the big furry dog (Fachoun) was hers www.rpo.co.uk/whats-on/eve...

New podcast: talking about #Satie #Vexations with Andrew Brixey-Williams. I liked our conversations about performing the piece (around 16'50" and 22'30"): open.spotify.com/episode/6nyK...

Another person with a 29 February birthday! 🍾

a birthday cake with fireworks in the background and the words happy birthday ALT: a birthday cake with fireworks in the background and the words happy birthday

Happy birthday to my nephew and everyone else who was born on 29 February and celebrating this weekend

Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983) - Concertino for Harp and Orchestra YouTube video by Roberto Pintos Cadillac

Good to hear #Tailleferre Concertino for harp on
Radio 3 - the work was premiered in Boston in March 1927 by Marcel Grandjany conducted by Koussevitzky @bostonsymphony.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCo4...

Beach: Piano Quintet in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 67: I. Adagio - Allegro moderato YouTube video by Takács Quartet - Topic

Amy Beach is Composer of the Week on Radio 3 - I don't like everything I've heard but her Piano Quintet is, to use the technical term, an absolute banger www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A2y...

(Baudelaire, annotation aux épreuves des Fleurs du mal)

Amateur pianist corner: #Scarlatti K215. I’ve had Kirkpatrick vol 1 for years but have never played it before! Like it, especially the crunchy chord/WTF is that sequences opening the B section

Farewell to French composer Éliane Radigue (1932-2026) who taught us the radical power of slowness, of patience, and attention stretched to the threshold of perception. Her work will continue to resonate—slowly, endlessly—like a tone that never quite fades.

‘Good for a trombone concerto’??

(Almost) Every Piece by Darius Milhaud, Ranked “The complete Milhaud? Won’t you be holed up in a bunker for six months?” said a friend when I mentioned this project. If people know one thing about Darius Milhaud, it is that he was one of the most ...

It's the listicle you've all been waiting for: @carolinefrmus.bsky.social ranks (almost) every piece by Darius Milhaud: van-magazine.com/mag/every-pi...

Andrew's fundraiser for YoungMinds Trust Help Andrew Brixey-Williams raise money to support YoungMinds Trust

Lovely to talk to Andrew Brixey-Williams about #Satie #Vexations which he’s performing in Ealing on 16-17 May, raising money for Young Minds Trust. Watch this space for an interview link! Check out his @JustGiving page and please donate if you can: www.justgiving.com/page/andrew-...

Man Ray, explosante-fixe (the flamenco dancer Prou del Pilar), published in Minotaure in 1934 alongside the first version of André #Breton L'Amour fou (‘La beauté convulsive sera érotique-voilée, explosante-fixe, magique-circonstancielle ou ne sera pas’)

Airport artwork made of bits of old pianos, LPs etc. #Liszt

A Ryanair plane, not something with which Liszt was familiar though the airport is named after him

#Budapest airport named after Liszt, who knew a few things about travel

At Central Café #Budapest - in the past there were rallies and political fistfights here. Not today, though - now it’s all about very nice if pricey cakes

It's even later than Carter, for example!

He was wheeled out at the end (there's a photo on my timeline). Very touching piece. Also heard his 90th birthday tribute to Boulez, an early viola concerto movement (1955) and Bartók's 3rd Piano Concerto (Aimard).