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Adrian Ainsworth @adrianspecs.bsky.social · 14h

Superb evening! Especially pleased to discover composers Majoie Hajary & Ludovic Lamothe.

Adrian Ainsworth @adrianspecs.bsky.social · 18h

Collecting a new venue tonight - the Dutch Centre - for ‘The Black Mozart and other Forgotten Composers’, with speaker Orville Breeveld giving us an insight into the lives of these lost artists, & @rebecaomordia.bsky.social bringing their works back to us.

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Adrian Ainsworth @adrianspecs.bsky.social · 5d

‘Tradecraft’ is a new @bodleian.ox.ac.uk exhibition bringing John Le Carré’s archives to light. Full of photos, ephemera & - best of all - his typescripts covered in his own notes. Unmissable. Make a secret pilgrimage without delay.

Adrian Ainsworth @adrianspecs.bsky.social · 5d

Thoroughly enjoyed ‘This is What You Get’ @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social. Enough to make a Radiohead fan* (*me) giddy with happiness - & that’s quite a concept in itself - just a great thing to see artwork for albums you love, massive, up on a wall.

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Adrian Ainsworth @adrianspecs.bsky.social · 6d

I always feel strange when I go back to Oxford. I can’t explain it properly except that the place still feels much like it always did but I barely recognise the person I was back then.

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Adrian Ainsworth @adrianspecs.bsky.social · 6d

It’s the middle of the night! 😴 Early start, flying solo to Oxford for the Ashmolean’s Radiohead exhibition… & hopefully time for Le Carré at the Bodleian, too.

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Adrian Ainsworth @adrianspecs.bsky.social · 6d

Wonderful to hear Mary Bevan & @josephmiddleton.bsky.social bring ‘Elegy’ to life @wigmore-hall.org.uk this evening. A deeply personal approach to a universal theme, it was an involving, intense & ultimately uplifting recital. The disc has the same power - seek it out.

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Adrian Ainsworth @adrianspecs.bsky.social · 6d

Thank heavens it’s nearly the weekend. I accidentally read a reference to the ‘See of Canterbury’ through the wrong bit of my glasses & thought for an instant they’d found a new feature on the Moon or something.

Adrian Ainsworth @adrianspecs.bsky.social · 7d

#ENOCinderella was great fun. 1st time seeing this opera: struck by the ceaselessly lovely score, some heroic performances, witty production & game antics of the #ENOChorus men. Special plaudits for the exquisite, elegant silent portrayal of Cinders’s mother by Sarah Storer. 💐

Adrian Ainsworth @adrianspecs.bsky.social · 7d

A packed @wigmore-hall.org.uk applauds @thegesualdosix.bsky.social & Matilda Lloyd after their sublime performance of ‘Radiant Dawn’ - a fascinating, original programme, also captured on their latest CD. Recommended!

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Adrian Ainsworth @adrianspecs.bsky.social · 9d

YES! I thought exactly the same!

Adrian Ainsworth @adrianspecs.bsky.social · 9d

Wasn’t it great?! I loved the way the tension & set pieces cranked up & up - seemingly out of control at times - & still all the strands came together. I felt like I was on a rollercoaster towards the end.

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Adrian Ainsworth @adrianspecs.bsky.social · 9d

Ok here we go…

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Adrian Ainsworth @adrianspecs.bsky.social · 11d

🖼️🤔👓 ‘Elegy’, the new album from Mary Bevan & @josephmiddleton.bsky.social, is a deeply moving, yet uplifting testament to how music can provide strength & support to those making it, as well as its listeners. More enthusiasm in my write-up for ArtMuseLondon…

artmuselondon.com/2025/09/28/s...

Songs to remember: Mary Bevan & Joseph Middleton, ‘Elegy’

‘Elegy’ is a heartfelt, thoughtfully-programmed recital disc that – aside from being a beautiful listen – also shows us something of art’s quieter powers: that living inside music, allo…

artmuselondon.com

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Adrian Ainsworth @adrianspecs.bsky.social · 11d

🖼️🤔👓 ‘Elegy’, the new album from Mary Bevan & @josephmiddleton.bsky.social, is a deeply moving, yet uplifting testament to how music can provide strength & support to those making it, as well as its listeners. More enthusiasm in my write-up for ArtMuseLondon…

artmuselondon.com/2025/09/28/s...

Songs to remember: Mary Bevan & Joseph Middleton, ‘Elegy’

‘Elegy’ is a heartfelt, thoughtfully-programmed recital disc that – aside from being a beautiful listen – also shows us something of art’s quieter powers: that living inside music, allo…

artmuselondon.com

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Adrian Ainsworth @adrianspecs.bsky.social · 13d

Applause for the remarkable Manchester Collective 👏

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Adrian Ainsworth @adrianspecs.bsky.social · 13d

On way to hear Manchester Collective - excellent time always guaranteed.

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Adrian Ainsworth @adrianspecs.bsky.social · 15d

😔 Danny Thompson.

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Richard & Danny Thompson - The Ghost of You Walks

YouTube video by Cleapatr

https://youtu.be/eNPl5bI4wq0?si…

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Adrian Ainsworth @adrianspecs.bsky.social · 16d

Collecting a new venue - 1st time at Hampstead Theatre & 1st time seeing ‘Titus Andronicus’ on stage. Bloody excited!

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Adrian Ainsworth @adrianspecs.bsky.social · 16d

@wigmore-hall.org.uk Hi, Wigmore. Please could I ask - have the Spring brochures been sent out yet? I haven’t received one & the booking date for my friend level is coming up on 1 October. Thanks!

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Fran Wilson @crosseyedpianist.bsky.social · 21d

‘Palimpsest’ – a compelling debut album from pianist & composer Rob Hao
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#pianomusic #schubert #newrelease

Palimpsest – a compelling debut album which demonstrates how music evolves

Palimpsest Rob Hao, piano Palimpsest – a manuscript or piece of writing material on which later writing has been superimposed on effaced earlier writing. – something reused or altered b…

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Adrian Ainsworth @adrianspecs.bsky.social · 25d

🖼️🤔👓 Somewhere between spoken word, song, sound art & suite for strings: the startlingly original new album from Matt Howden (aka Sieben) & his father, poet Keith Howden. More enthusiasm in my write-up for ArtMuseLondon…

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Rock of ages: Matt Howden / Keith Howden, ‘Language for Stone’

This latest collaboration between violinist and songwriter Matt Howden and his poet and artist father Keith – their third – is an extraordinary achievement: in its sonic ambition, its s…

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Adrian Ainsworth @adrianspecs.bsky.social · 27d

Applause for John Wilson’s Sinfonia of London - plus soloist James Ehnes - at tonight’s glorious Prom.

Adrian Ainsworth @adrianspecs.bsky.social · 27d

Pair of Specs, heading to the Second to Last Night of the Proms…

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Adrian Ainsworth @adrianspecs.bsky.social · 27d

Excellent vocal-music-based post today. Unfamiliar rep to me (Gál) courtesy of Borealis Choir with @carolynsampson.bsky.social; Sandrine Piau sings Schubert with string quartet; & a new CD from Vox Clamantis always cause for celebration! 🎧

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