dikki0.bsky.social
@dikki0.bsky.social
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https://open.spotify.com/album/138qiWPuaVTWVTDcbeGFv9?si=pDAZcMctSH20qJis7kYcVg

Just two weeks ago I was visiting London for a couple of days. From Amsterdam it is easy to do by train, really a delightful trip. It was a bit cold, but what can you expect in November. #Fink
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December 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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https://open.spotify.com/album/0UBcJ9u1Clc6B1ioE5WAUI?si=SlE1iE_uS4ypDD4gf_cgQg

This live album is a release from 2022, together with a 40 minute movie on Netflix (not in the Netherlands, alas) about the concert. #CreedenceClearwaterRevival
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December 6, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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https://open.spotify.com/album/47AT8h8Vc7LD3NIiNNC2Py?si=saZVca8DSACYofIlu55COg

I've written a couple of times about the MoFi records, but never about the controversy they were in. #BobbyTimmons #LeeMorgan #PaulChambers #PepperAdams #PhillyJoeJones
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December 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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https://open.spotify.com/album/1lDtUlOPGKp56gQ24MvmNG?si=v3bkhFnmQUOcEiKVMmFmTg

Grant Green plays jazz guitar, and in bebop there are not many of those. Idle moments is a record he made in 1963, released in 1965.
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December 3, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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https://open.spotify.com/album/3g9baRrkyeaxVVlKALv9Pr?si=NGAS5aT_Q3qbvO6JoAlZYQ

The debut album of singer-songwriter Jewel, from 1995. The album also contains the first (and only) hit single by the singer, Foolish games. #Jewel
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December 2, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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The Baroque fugue was an important art form in music. Mastering the fugue meant the ultimate test as a composer. It is both an exercise in mathematics and art. These pieces had a central theme, short and often flexible. #AlmaMusica #bach #BertusvanLier #nostreaming
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December 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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https://open.spotify.com/album/4LH4d3cOWNNsVw41Gqt2kv?si=gn6FvrG2ShCfHYyLcXJegQ

This is not only Pink Floyd's most famous album, but close to the best known and best selling (album) record of all time. #PinkFloyd
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November 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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https://open.spotify.com/album/5pxPDxiqkZe0LC0uvkokaZ?si=kPuvh4etSQeqKY6zTRAsEg

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma has done about everything imaginable in music. He uses the cello in arranged versions of music you don't expect.
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November 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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https://open.spotify.com/album/5FVKENFGBRuP76EXTucFOv?si=h7Hzdrz_RUC9xKMwE5DyVQ

French composer Darius Milhaud had a Jewish background and had to flee France under the German occupation of the Second World War. He was exiled in the US and felt as such.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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A curious record: relatively unknown musicians performing relatively unknown works by two brothers from the end of the 19th century. The two brothers is about all I know.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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The German punk folkers of Schneewittchen came to my attention when a friend kept recommending them. Or rather the singer, because she keeps popping up at a festival we both go to.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Michael Ponti was like a one man Hyperion. He started recording in the sixties, and had created more than 80 discs at the end of his career. Most of them were never recorded at the time, some of them still are the only existing recording.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Sergei Taneyev lived in the second half of the 19th and early 20th century. He was born in an aristocratic family near Moscow, in 1856. He was connected to many of the major composers of the day, but was not always friendly to them.
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November 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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https://open.spotify.com/album/1Jv0KxSEpHUXihWRDghwLZ?si=oPipxMSbRpCL0rEm_KQY0Q

The Melos Ensemble was founded in 1950 as a combination of a string quintet and a wind quintet, along with harp and piano, but also accompanied by other players.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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https://open.spotify.com/album/7cA8QMBR9o7xfWJJEEfZTo?si=B_gcD9IMQg2oexZmbd0M2A

Deutsche Grammophon's latest darling on the violin is the very young (24) María Dueñas from Granada, Spain.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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https://open.spotify.com/album/70xmRZ58ruRIEIqhg6lyQ8?si=Sjyjgm8wQRKRQAJPPuUEqA

I admit to be a fan of this band. But even I can distinguish between what is good and what is better. I think this is by far VNV Nation's best album in years. #VNVNation
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November 20, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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https://open.spotify.com/album/6HpFqmrdzf4xAyIilqQAqI?si=Sx7XoP_XRA-xvSHe0h1Kxw

Haarlem band De Kift takes the concept of special albums some steps further. Every album is unique, many times created by the fans themselves on special evenings arranged by the band. #DeKift
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November 19, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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https://open.spotify.com/album/4ZtYBwpGMg4PWu4h7AacY8?si=E_mHcOx7T7O72GI3LllavQ

For lack of a translation: this is fanfarepunk. When I read that, things fell in place. Haarlem's band (a city nearby Amsterdam) De Kift is more like an act and for its members a way of life.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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https://open.spotify.com/album/6GNpx7yw1GgGfDjdpKkmYw?si=Gtq5-0exSd6ooUqqYyab4g

These two piano concertos together form two opposite side of Shostakovich's life. The first was composed when he was cocky, and full of humour.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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https://open.spotify.com/album/6hTaQIU9ObWJWobLgsb2P5?si=prr__aROTWq0RgHr-tnNLg

British cellist Steven Isserlis is according to the BBC's list of greatest cellists of all time number 13, just below Mischa Maisky and Luigi Boccherini.
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November 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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https://open.spotify.com/album/2EtRJEuQigkAMpBXob1oNh?si=bVN6bNxgTk2lU0wepW8U6g

The British label Hyperion has been on my wanted list for a long time. They release mostly unknown works by relatively unknown performers in superior quality sound.
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November 15, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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https://open.spotify.com/album/7aLGkawKPnqSFPeEEtg00r?si=8ezMOUiXTlaAvF0Ef2LZ3Q

The Danish composer Carl Nielsen lived and composed around the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. #CarlNielsen #EsaPekkaSalonen
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November 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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https://open.spotify.com/album/0X3REhho2UdGlzBp6Y0oo4?si=ld2pvuqmTs-yH_lXbs3lrQ

The Italian composer Luigi Boccherini is mostly known for his chamber music, specifically for cello. #Boccherini #GuiseppeTartini #PaulSacher #Rostropovich #Vivaldi
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November 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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https://open.spotify.com/album/3WLOtAlLgaJgPLOwYwOaWe?si=ZnXX-T-ASlCKcsBBtSAv6w

A series of six concertos from a time when they lasted under ten minutes. Probably the concert for two trumpets is the most famous one.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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https://open.spotify.com/show/3VihqATK1Mzwi1AaOp4sVD?si=2189a89065a94a7b

For Doctor Who collectors this is an episode of enormous value. It was made in 1966, and the fourth episode was wiped (tapes were expensive and were reused in those days).
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November 9, 2025 at 10:53 AM