Huw Watkins's Symphony No. 2 is officially released today! At its premiere, critics praised it as "optimistic, easy to grasp and subtle." Listening to it today, that resilient, brassy optimism and those ravishing orchestral textures feel just as refreshing and vital to experience right now.
New Year traditions have be maintained! #nieuwjaarsconcert #ViennaPhilharmonic #NewYearConcert2026
Just myself, Simon and Gustav Mahler hanging out!
Listening this morning to the new recording of Christopher Gunning's 8th &9th symphonies from @kennethwoods.net and BBC National Orchestra of Wales. I really got to listen to the others more!!
Colourised sheep and carts in a street scene.
Low resolution image of Claremorriss, County Mayo.
The value of Ai, whether you love it or hate it, is that when you get it concentrate on something to bring it back from nothing or almost lost, is valuable. Claremorriss, County Mayo 1957. #Claremorriss #CountyMayo #Ireland
For Gustav Holst's birthday, a regeneration from an old picture!
Kevin Puts' new release (Concerto for Orchestra, Silent Night Elegy, Virelai) is a must-hea!. Contemporary yet deeply satisfying, it's packed with melodies, rhythms & lush colours, expertly captured. Rewards repeat listening. open.spotify.com/album/3s5T4R...
Here's 1 of only 2 photos of the icon of piano music of the 19th century Charles-Valentin Alkan, with the advances of photo editing Ai, and clever long prompting, this is a possible likeness of him.
Based on the history of the sport, Ross is correct. While Cork and Tipperary have a massive rivalry and are two of hurling's most successful teams, they have never actually met in an All-Ireland final before. So yes, it is genuinely unprecedented AND "historic".
For Mahler's birthday this morning I'm going to start my day with Mahler's symphonies performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Conducted by Klaus Tennstedt.
#Mahler #classicalmusic
open.spotify.com/album/0KpMKf...
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Pardon me but, what's the point of this shit....??
Handel Zadok Variation (From Zadok, the Priest, HWV 258, Arr. for Violin, Piano and Orchestra by Tim Allhoff)
open.spotify.com/track/6o6Ffa...
Listening to the now to the new recording by Yunchan Lim, (released today) by Decca of legendary live performance of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 from the 2022 Cliburn Competition.
open.spotify.com/album/0PTxe1...
It's not often that classical music feels like ideal background music, but Simeon ten Holt's Canto Ostinato for two pianos and two marimbas manages just that. Hypnotic and evolving, it creates a wonderful sonic landscape.
youtu.be/FfBP2UNcMX8?...
#music #minimalism #classical
Messing with the image generator on ChatGPT I had an idea what if I could bring Irish composer John Field to life and it came up with this from the lithograph on the right.
There's actually no Bach Sr. but one of the lads!
An accidentally live Classical Sounds here CCRfm at 1pm!
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I heard this symphony live a couple of years ago, thought to be the first symphony composed and published in Ireland. open.spotify.com/album/1k4cJu...
Nice to see this article in our @irishtimes.com today for Bach's birthday! www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
Listening this morning to this new recording of Mahler's Symphony No. 5 from Tonhalle-Orchester ZΓΌrich &
Paavo JΓ€rvi
It's really quite enjoyable!
open.spotify.com/album/59Bho3...
#PaavoJarvi #ClassicalMusic
Well, yes, the world is in general meltdown. But I'm still doing backflips over this one. Album release is 28 April, a couple of singles en route before that. @englishsymphony.bsky.social
Antonio Bertali (1605-1669), Italian Baroque composer & violinist, was a virtuoso in his time. Famous for Chaconne in C Major, he brought opera seria to Vienna. Half his works are lost. Enjoy this spirited 2012 performance by Bojan ΔiΔiΔ & Illyria Consort.
youtu.be/Vi96w8A6UWI
Michael Kurek's Symphony No. 3 "English" exemplifies his neo-traditional, melodic, narrative, and tonal style. He believes in the power of beautiful, well-crafted tonal music, a "lost art," and aims for new works that are both well-composed and widely appealing.
open.spotify.com/album/4tYoDX...
Anyone who still assumes there will be a free and fair mid-term election in two years in the United States still doesnβt understand a really key part of Trumpβs, Elonβs and the GOPβs plan.
John Taylor (c.β1703 β 1770 or 1772) was an early British eye surgeon, self-promoter and medical charlatan of 18th-century Europe. He is responsible for the surgical mistreatment of George Frideric Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach, and perhaps hundreds of others. Both Handel and Bach died shortly after the botched surgery performed by Taylor
![Taylor's career was destructive. His general approach included bloodletting, laxatives, and eyedrops of blood from slaughtered pigeons, pulverized sugar, or baked salt. In late March 1750, during one of his European tours, Taylor operated on Bach's cataracts twice in Leipzig and reportedly blinded him. Bach fell ill with a fever and died less than four months later. There is some evidence that Taylor operated on Handel in August 1758, in Tunbridge Wells, after which Handel's health deteriorated until his death in April 1759. In both cases Taylor claimed complete success.[1] Prior to performing each surgical procedure, he would deliver a long, self-promoting speech in an unusual oratorial style.[2] Dutch ophthalmologist R. Zegers said that "Taylor started practicing in Switzerland, where he blinded hundreds of patients, he once confessed"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreig62xaz54plhfk42fj5smi533kwyn2ndgsvrweppk2xwueq3ui3te@jpeg)
Taylor's career was destructive. His general approach included bloodletting, laxatives, and eyedrops of blood from slaughtered pigeons, pulverized sugar, or baked salt. In late March 1750, during one of his European tours, Taylor operated on Bach's cataracts twice in Leipzig and reportedly blinded him. Bach fell ill with a fever and died less than four months later. There is some evidence that Taylor operated on Handel in August 1758, in Tunbridge Wells, after which Handel's health deteriorated until his death in April 1759. In both cases Taylor claimed complete success.[1] Prior to performing each surgical procedure, he would deliver a long, self-promoting speech in an unusual oratorial style.[2] Dutch ophthalmologist R. Zegers said that "Taylor started practicing in Switzerland, where he blinded hundreds of patients, he once confessed"
ok how did people let this fraudulent eye doctor kill all the greatest living music composers
#A-Haydn-A-Day might not keep the doctor away after all.
Day 84: Symphony No. 36. Yesterday I put my back out and started a cold, so today I'm taking it easy and hoping Haydn can heal me. If that doesn't work, I may have to go to the doctors. Now, can I get to the medicine cabinet from here?
Started my Friday with a new release by
Alice Sara Ott with John Field: Complete Nocturnes.
open.spotify.com/album/0EOZVL...
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Watching The Last Musician of Auschwitz on BBC2
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
My local Tesco this evening... #StormΓowyn #StormEowyn
