The Symphonist
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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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I think he called Bruno "Bro".
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Not to Sibelius, but to Bruno Walter about Symphony No. 3.
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Must be the ... err ... spectacular views from the top, as witnessed by Mrs. Symphonist here.
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So much for catching up during my holiday, I've not listened to anything all week. Too busy climbing real hills to listen to people singing about it!
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Manchester half marathon tomorrow.

I quite like these events coming through our area, but I don’t like them closing the main cycle route to Manchester for 2 days each time, with no safe alternative route provided.

More car-brained thinking, as people on bikes don’t count.
Talbot Road closed the day before the event Cycle route barriered off Barriers and the finish line going up
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You're welcome, Fritz. So glad you got to enjoy it too!
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Petrenko is so good at orchestral showpieces like this, and the RPO sound better than ever since he took over.
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This was an absolute cracker! Listen while you can!
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🎧 Four days left to listen!

Live at the BBC Proms: the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko in Respighi's Pines of Rome and Vaughan Williams's 'A London Symphony'.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Listen here 👇
BBC Proms - 2025 - BBC Proms: Vaughan Williams’s ‘A London Symphony’ - BBC Sounds
Live at the BBC Proms: the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) film composer #BOTD
What?
Yes.
THAT Saint-Saëns.
Famous for his "Carnival of the Animals" and other concert works, he was the first major composer to write an original film score, for the 1908 THE ASSASSINATION OF THE DUKE OF GUISE.
#filmsky #moviesky #classicalmusic
Saint-Saëns - L'Assassinat du duc de Guise (soundtrack) - 1908
YouTube video by GGbreizh
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keithwdickinson.bsky.social
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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Gang! This is in Sheffield on Friday. A whistle stop tour through some unbelievable CHOOOOONS for newbies and lifers alike. I cannot wait. Come see, if you’re in the S. Yorks environs or thereabouts.

musicintheround.co.uk/events/chris...
CHRIS ADDISON'S INCOMPLETE GUIDE TO CHAMBER MUSIC
CHRIS ADDISON'S INCOMPLETE GUIDE TO CHAMBER MUSIC - Music in the Round %
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Antonio's bassoon concerti are the bomb!
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greenparty.org.uk
The Green surge continues ... We’ve just passed 90,000 members! 💚

People everywhere are joining the movement for real change.

Want hope to be normal again? Join the Green Party today ↩️
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rhi.bsky.social
Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
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Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild
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I don't care what anyone says, I feel robbed if I don't get it.
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The Joker’s Wild – Mischief in Music @Malvern Theatres
Wed 12th November, 7.30pm
Tickets: malvern-theatres.co.uk/event/eso-th...
Haydn – Symphony No. 60 (Il Distratto)
Weill – Cabaret Songs
Schulhoff – Suite for Chamber Orchestra
Milhaud – The Ox on the Roof
April Fredrick, soprano
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
Zack on Bold Politics podium
deeplyclassical.bsky.social
IMO The Miracle is even better than the Surprise, and still in many ways my favourite #96 on record.
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The excitement and the architecture, perfectly balanced.
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Mine too, obvs. There are various ways to approach Tapiola, but for the sheer grandeur of its dark, fire-flecked magic, there's no one quite like Herbie.
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Here's twit-twooking at you, kid.
A beautiful thread.
folklorewales.com
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
Tawny owl