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Joe Chester

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Musician, composer & producer from Ireland Living in France LUCIA for Guitar & Strings https://joechester.bandcamp.com/album/lucia AU REVOIR TRISTESSE - Cinq Bagatelles pour Guitare https://lnk.fuga.com/aurevoirtristesse https://linktr.ee/joechester

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Joe Chester @joechester.bsky.social · Aug 29

Delighted to announce a new live album, released next Friday September 5th

NATIONAL CONCERT HALL, DUBLIN 2025 features ten tracks recorded live at this historic and special venue in Dublin on June 13th.

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New live album, NATIONAL CONCERT HALL, DUBLIN 2025

YouTube video by Joseph Chester

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Joe Chester @joechester.bsky.social · 2d

Xenia’s book, Befriending Performance Anxiety, is brilliant. This is a great opportunity for musicians!

Xenia Pestova Bennett @xeniapestova.bsky.social · 2d

People of the internet! I’m running a free online session on performance anxiety and managing negative thoughts (important!) on 30 October. I’m especially keen to reach non-professional musicians who love music, but struggle with stage fright. Please share! xeniapestovabennett.com/events/intro...

Befriending Performance Anxiety: Five Tips for Managing Negative Thoughts | Online - Xenia Pestova Bennett

Free taster webinar introducing the Befriending Performance Anxiety programme. Recognise and reframe negative thoughts  before, during and after performance Build confidence (Re)discover the joy of pe...

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Joe Chester @joechester.bsky.social · 3d

Saw this video on the @remhq.bsky.social feed today - had never seen it before - so good! @michaelstipe.bsky.social
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Sesame Street: Happy Furry Monsters Song with R.E.M

YouTube video by Sesame Street

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Joe Chester @joechester.bsky.social · 5d

Loved this interview with Briany on Off The Record this evening. He's an encyclopedia of great music - especially love the Rois and Fever Ray tracks! A great listen!
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For The Record Sunday 5 October 2025

Pat O'Mahony explores the record collection of Brian Brannigan: Singer, songwriter and big kahuna of Dublin post-punk roots band, A Lazarus Soul

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Joe Chester @joechester.bsky.social · 8d

Patreon Exclusive : Revox Tape 1
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Joe Chester @joechester.bsky.social · 8d

Looking forward to the @nytimes.com Daily podcast about how Israel has illegally blocked a humanitarian mission in international waters and abducted several hundred parliamentarians, lawyers, doctors and activists to prevent food from getting to the children they, Israel, are starving.

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Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign @ipsc.bsky.social · 15d

Our former President Mary Robinson,
told Channel 4 News that "the United States is complicit in this famine and unfolding genocide" of Palestinians in Gaza through its support of apartheid Israel. She's right, and shamefully the US uses Shannon Airport every day. #GazaGenocide
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Joe Chester @joechester.bsky.social · 16d

Sad to hear Danny Thompson has passed away, incredible musician rightly revered for his work on seminal folk records by John Martyn, Richard Thompson and Nick Drake but did you know he also played on this classic?
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Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden (1988) FULL ALBUM

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Joe Chester @joechester.bsky.social · 22d

For backstory Music in the Castle of Heaven by John Eliot Gardiner is wonderful. But you’re absolutely right - David Watkin’s recording of Cello Suites, Hilary Hahn plays Bach and Richter’s Well Tempered Clavier are lighthouse recordings.

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Joe Chester @joechester.bsky.social · 22d

How wonderful! I totally relate! For the Goldbergs, Gould is justifiably famous but a sort of Starbucks approach. Coffee for people who don’t like coffee. Olafsson is too fast in my opinion. Andras Schiff recorded it twice (as did Gould) and i’d say his ECM recording is my fave.

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Joe Chester @joechester.bsky.social · 22d

Bingeing on Bach? 🫰

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Michael Stipe @michaelstipe.bsky.social · 23d

I am honored to support the UK Together for Palestine concert

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Joe Chester @joechester.bsky.social · 24d

By the way, the only reason I noticed is I'm studying the Frank Martin piece and love his recording. :-)

Joe Chester @joechester.bsky.social · 24d

Haha - I don't know - it only makes me love Bream more if anything. He told a great story of when Britten wrote him a piece (Nocturnal) It had 2 notes that were physically impossible to play. So Britten said, "Play one while you think about the other!"

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Joe Chester @joechester.bsky.social · 24d

Haha - it just shows we're all human! And if you're the composer, like you, there's no such thing as a wrong note! :-)

Joe Chester @joechester.bsky.social · 24d

Aargh -just found a wrong note in the landmark #JulianBream recording of Frank Martin's Quatre Pièces Brèves! In bar 3, the second slur is an E# but Bream plays an E Natural.
Really love this piece and Bream's recording.
www. youtube.com/watch?v=fzqVh-4duc8

Frank Martin - Quatre Pieces Breves for Guitar (1933) [Score-Video]

YouTube video by George N. Gianopoulos, composer

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Joe Chester @joechester.bsky.social · 29d

National Concert Hall, Dublin 2025 is already 1 week old and it's still the Number 1 classical guitar album on Bandcalp which is so cool! Thanks for all the streams and downloads so far!
joechester.bandcamp.com/album/nation...

New live album, NATIONAL CONCERT HALL, DUBLIN 2025

YouTube video by Joseph Chester

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Joe Chester @joechester.bsky.social · 29d

2/2 This is one of my favourite pieces of his, a classic of the Tintinnabuli style.
www.arvopart.ee/en/arvo-part...

Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten – Arvo Pärt Centre

On 5 December 1976, Arvo Pärt heard on the radio of Benjamin Britten’s death and was deeply affected by the news. The composer has said: "I had jus...

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Joe Chester @joechester.bsky.social · 29d

Happy 90th birthday to #ArvoPÄrt. We are lucky to share the world with a composer whose music brings such deep solace. I named my first band after him and cherish the memory of meeting the man himself some twenty years ago after a performance of his mighty Credo. 1/2
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Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten – Arvo Pärt Centre

On 5 December 1976, Arvo Pärt heard on the radio of Benjamin Britten’s death and was deeply affected by the news. The composer has said: "I had jus...

www.arvopart.ee

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Joe Chester @joechester.bsky.social · Sep 10

Watched the coverage of the #Vuelta yesterday - excellent commentary by @robhatch.bsky.social, @sportsorla.bsky.social et al, marred only by the equivication that the protests are a "complex issue."
Since when is opposition to the forced starvation of a population complex? Where is the complexity?

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Amnesty International France @amnestyfrance.bsky.social · Sep 9

Les militant·es n'auraient pas eu à risquer leur vie si les États avaient pris les mesures nécessaires pour permettre l'acheminement de l'aide humanitaire à Gaza.

Les États doivent dénoncer cette attaque et agir maintenant !

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Joe Chester @joechester.bsky.social · Sep 6

National Concert Hall, Dublin 2025 had a wonderful first day of release - thank you to all who listened and bought the album, driving it to the top of the Contemporary Classical chart overnight! How wonderful!
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Joe Chester @joechester.bsky.social · Sep 5

National Concert Hall, Dublin 2025 is OUT NOW!
joechester.bandcamp.com/album/nation...

National Concert Hall, Dublin 2025, by Joseph Chester

10 track album

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Joe Chester @joechester.bsky.social · Sep 3

Tracklist Cont.

J.S. Bach Cello Suite No. 1 (Allemande)

Nuvoluccia in her Lightdress

Une soie, énervante et douce

Port na bPúcaí

Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór

La mer, son rythme incessant

Beckett

La lune, aimable et tranquille

Les yeux fermés, bonjour tristesse

J.S. Bach Cello Suite No. 1 (Sarabande)

Joe Chester @joechester.bsky.social · Sep 3

Released this Friday, high resolution 24-96k streaming and download exclusively on Bandcamp.

This was a very special and meaningful evening for me and I'm delighted to have a document of it! Can't wait for you to hear it.

Tracklist

J.S. Bach Cello Suite No. 1 (Prelude)

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Joe Chester @joechester.bsky.social · Sep 2

Good looking fella! One of my fave guitarists - every time I saw him with Dylan he seemed to bring out something special in him. Always did a great Tangled up in Blue.