The Symphonist
@deeplyclassical.bsky.social
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 blame the "fetishes" part of "AI fetishes and knives" for reminding me of "Polkas, schottishes and waltzes."
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 AM
I blame the "fetishes" part of "AI fetishes and knives" for reminding me of "Polkas, schottishes and waltzes."
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On this date in 1760, Franz Josef Haydn married Maria Keller, the eldest daughter of a Viennese wig-maker. Their 40-year marriage was mostly miserable; Maria disliked music and couldn't recognize his genius. He claimed "it made me not indifferent to the charms of other women."
November 26, 2025 at 4:28 AM
On this date in 1760, Franz Josef Haydn married Maria Keller, the eldest daughter of a Viennese wig-maker. Their 40-year marriage was mostly miserable; Maria disliked music and couldn't recognize his genius. He claimed "it made me not indifferent to the charms of other women."
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Proud to find my definition of 'super trouper' on p.651 of the 2024 edition of @vizcomic.bsky.social's disgusting work of genius, Roger's Profanisaurus
November 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Proud to find my definition of 'super trouper' on p.651 of the 2024 edition of @vizcomic.bsky.social's disgusting work of genius, Roger's Profanisaurus
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The final version of Sibelius's Fifth Symphony (of swan fame) was premiered today in 1919. Sibelius conducted the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. The original version was first performed in 1915.
November 24, 2025 at 10:45 AM
The final version of Sibelius's Fifth Symphony (of swan fame) was premiered today in 1919. Sibelius conducted the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. The original version was first performed in 1915.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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I find gin fends off most of the disquiet 🍸
This time on Sunday is great for affirmations & goal setting.
By which I mean limbering up to let vague existential disquiet descend into the certainty that life so far has been a pointless, humiliating failure, with all the jaunty inexorability of a slinky pouring arse over arse down a staircase
By which I mean limbering up to let vague existential disquiet descend into the certainty that life so far has been a pointless, humiliating failure, with all the jaunty inexorability of a slinky pouring arse over arse down a staircase
November 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I find gin fends off most of the disquiet 🍸
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You: I’m combining breakfast and lunch. Brunch.
Me: I’m combining wine and dinner. Winner.
Me: I’m combining wine and dinner. Winner.
November 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
You: I’m combining breakfast and lunch. Brunch.
Me: I’m combining wine and dinner. Winner.
Me: I’m combining wine and dinner. Winner.
My first boulevardier of the season is only one way I'm warming up my winter evenings
#NowWatching #NowDrinking
#NowWatching #NowDrinking
November 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
My first boulevardier of the season is only one way I'm warming up my winter evenings
#NowWatching #NowDrinking
#NowWatching #NowDrinking
If Haydn's the Father of the symphony, then Johann Stamitz (1717-1757) is one of the genre's great-uncles. These slight but charming symphonies, likely among his earliest, make agreeable semi-background listening on a Sunday afternoon.
#NewReleases2025 #233
#NewReleases2025 #233
November 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
If Haydn's the Father of the symphony, then Johann Stamitz (1717-1757) is one of the genre's great-uncles. These slight but charming symphonies, likely among his earliest, make agreeable semi-background listening on a Sunday afternoon.
#NewReleases2025 #233
#NewReleases2025 #233
My hectic schedule forces #NewReleaseFriday back by two whole days 🙀 in a week featuring not only one Coleridge-Taylor, but a pair: @jkaconductor.bsky.social & Samantha Ege give us the first ever album dedicated to Avril, while her dad gets a 150th birthday bash.
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November 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
My hectic schedule forces #NewReleaseFriday back by two whole days 🙀 in a week featuring not only one Coleridge-Taylor, but a pair: @jkaconductor.bsky.social & Samantha Ege give us the first ever album dedicated to Avril, while her dad gets a 150th birthday bash.
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Even the most enthusiastic symphony fan might wonder if the world really needs more recordings of these warhorses, but I found the 5th exciting, gripping and fresh. I was less keen on the 6th, but No. 5 is well worth hearing, no matter how well you think you know it.
#NewReleases2025 #231
#NewReleases2025 #231
November 19, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Even the most enthusiastic symphony fan might wonder if the world really needs more recordings of these warhorses, but I found the 5th exciting, gripping and fresh. I was less keen on the 6th, but No. 5 is well worth hearing, no matter how well you think you know it.
#NewReleases2025 #231
#NewReleases2025 #231
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It's Mackerras 100 on BBCRadio3 today. The great Australian conductor Charles Mackerras born on this day in 1925. Breakfast is packed full of his recordings and we'll get to hear him in interviews as we plunder the BBC archives. 6.30-9.30.
November 17, 2025 at 7:11 AM
It's Mackerras 100 on BBCRadio3 today. The great Australian conductor Charles Mackerras born on this day in 1925. Breakfast is packed full of his recordings and we'll get to hear him in interviews as we plunder the BBC archives. 6.30-9.30.
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THREAD. A collection of photographs of the best scarecrows I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
THREAD. A collection of photographs of the best scarecrows I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
Whenever my youngest niece comes to stay, we go to the HMV shop, and I always come home with some new films to help me relax.
#NowDrinking #NowWatching
#NowDrinking #NowWatching
November 16, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Whenever my youngest niece comes to stay, we go to the HMV shop, and I always come home with some new films to help me relax.
#NowDrinking #NowWatching
#NowDrinking #NowWatching
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![Sign taped to the wall in a toilet: "PLEASE hold Handel down when flushing"
['Handel' spelled as in the composer, rather than as in the thing you push or turn]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:criiz7t67jzchq7m6plznv7f/bafkreiarzcrlhq6qj2z5tfxuhbi2ae5shgst4n2ugdat6y5wnbdevtnufi@jpeg)
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Petula Clark singing 'Geh in die Stadt' - 'Downtown' in German - because today is her 93rd birthday... and because fuck Brexit, wir sind europäer.
Petula Clark - Downtown (German Version) - 1965
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November 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Petula Clark singing 'Geh in die Stadt' - 'Downtown' in German - because today is her 93rd birthday... and because fuck Brexit, wir sind europäer.
A highly a-moo-sing thread.
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent cattle I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 16, 2025 at 7:49 AM
A highly a-moo-sing thread.
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THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 AM
THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.
Same here
The bloody neighbours have gone out and left John Cage’s 4’33 on full blast again.
November 15, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Same here
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Wendy Carlos, BOTD in 1939, worked closely with Robert Moog in developing many of the modules and features of early Moog synthesizers in the 1960s.
Here, in 1970, Carlos shares the clearest and most easy to understand explanation of how a synthesizer works that you'll ever hear:
#musicsky #moviesky
Here, in 1970, Carlos shares the clearest and most easy to understand explanation of how a synthesizer works that you'll ever hear:
#musicsky #moviesky
Wendy Carlos on the BBC in 1970
Wendy Carlos demonstrates how a Moog synthesizer works.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel *14. November 1805: Quatuor en Mib majeur. Quatuor Ebène. www.youtube.com/watch?v=biWr...
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Quatuor Ebène - Fanny Mendelssohn (1805-1847) : Quatuor en Mib majeur
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November 14, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel *14. November 1805: Quatuor en Mib majeur. Quatuor Ebène. www.youtube.com/watch?v=biWr...
#classicalmusic
#classicalmusic
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Happy #NewReleaseFriday! Two unconventional symphonies start my playlist this week: Rachmaninoff referred to choral blockbuster "The Bells" as his 3rd Symphony when he wrote it, while the Adès (a world premiere recording) is an "orchestral rendering" of music from his opera.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Happy #NewReleaseFriday! Two unconventional symphonies start my playlist this week: Rachmaninoff referred to choral blockbuster "The Bells" as his 3rd Symphony when he wrote it, while the Adès (a world premiere recording) is an "orchestral rendering" of music from his opera.
▶️ spoti.fi/400asdn
▶️ spoti.fi/400asdn
Happy #NewReleaseFriday! Two unconventional symphonies start my playlist this week: Rachmaninoff referred to choral blockbuster "The Bells" as his 3rd Symphony when he wrote it, while the Adès (a world premiere recording) is an "orchestral rendering" of music from his opera.
▶️ spoti.fi/400asdn
▶️ spoti.fi/400asdn
November 14, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Happy #NewReleaseFriday! Two unconventional symphonies start my playlist this week: Rachmaninoff referred to choral blockbuster "The Bells" as his 3rd Symphony when he wrote it, while the Adès (a world premiere recording) is an "orchestral rendering" of music from his opera.
▶️ spoti.fi/400asdn
▶️ spoti.fi/400asdn