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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
dikki.nl/2025/11/tu-was/
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
dikki.nl/2025/11/viva...
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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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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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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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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