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Classical musician, teaching singing in Bristol, UK. Super-keen to make classical music accessible to everyone. I run Music Appreciation sessions online all year round - always happy to welcome curious new explorers. www.charlottenewstead.co.uk

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Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · Aug 27

Discover classical music, the great composers and some social history all at the same time from the comfort of your own sitting room.

Why not try something new this autumn and get a whole new playlist into the bargain?

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Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 29m

Here’s the gorgeous adagio of Rachmaninov’s 2nd symphony to start your Saturday with shimmering beauty. It’s just one of the pieces I’ll be talking about in an all-day Rachmaninov workshop today in Clevedon. Close your eyes and let it still your fears and anxieties.

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Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 - 3. Adagio | Petrenko · Berliner Philharmoniker

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Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 2d

Still half a dozen spaces avail for this Sat in Clevedon - a simply gorgeous day of Rachmaninov. All your faves plus intros to pieces you don’t know so well. We’ll chart the sorrows of his life story and how they shaped his musical voice. I’m so excited!
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Course Bookings – Clevedon Adult Studies Association

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Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 3d

Having a fab day. Booked for a nice Vaughan Williams gig in November. Booked to deliver a music lecture in March on a topic of my choosing. Lovely teaching this afternoon and this evening am leading a music appreciation session on Rebecca Clarke’s Viola Sonata.

Topped off with a chocolate hobnob.

Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 3d

Have you read Still Life by Sarah Winman ? It’s a beauty.

Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 3d

We’re listening tonight to the tremendous Viola Sonata by Rebecca Clarke. It’s very English, but there are hints of Debussy here and there. If you ever doubted the viola could occupy the spotlight, you need to hear this.

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Matthew Lipman and Jeremy Denk | Clarke Viola Sonata

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Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 5d

For those who enjoyed the Poulenc Double Piano Concerto, here’s his Sextet for piano and winds. We’re listening to it next week (Monday 14th. )

It was written the same year and has the same wonderful mix of bonkers energy and almost sacred beauty.

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Poulenc: Sextet - BBC Proms 2013

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Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 6d

Górecki’s Totus tuus for a glorious Sunday morning. The music shines with ecstatic fervour.

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Henryk Górecki: Totus Tuus (Choir of New College, Oxford)

YouTube video by Kate Price

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Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you!

Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 7d

I only discovered this mass quite recently and it blew me away. I don’t know all his symphs, but 4,5 and 7 all do it for me!
I wonder if it’s poss helpful to think of them as similar to the sacred works - expressing a sense of wonder and humility at the universe? I think that’s why they’re so huge.

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Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 8d

With so much division in the world, today I’m sharing music born in the aftermath of hatred. In 1945, the elderly Richard Strauss wrote Metamorphosen, a work of deep sorrow, as he looked on the ruins around him.

In memoriam.

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R. Strauss: Metamorphosen, TrV 290

YouTube video by Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra - Topic

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Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 8d

Phenomenal concert tonight at Bristol Beacon from The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra with Stephen Hough. Rachmaninov’s first concerto was splendid and Shostakovich 10 in second half blew me away. Enjoyed Dani Howard’s Butterfly Effect too - very striking. What a wonderful and uplifting evening.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 9d

'Farage Boats' is a useful term and should be normalised.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 9d

“I would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channel” 👏

PM Keir Starmer

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Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 10d

Berio’s Sinfonia begins in a whisper - eerie and breathless, the voices half-chanting like a spell being cast. From this spooky, ritual-like opening, an extraordinary soundworld unfolds. It’s unexpected and strange, and totally mesmerising.

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Luciano Berio - SINFONIA, with Roomful of Teeth, Eduardo Leandro, SBSO

YouTube video by Eduardo Leandro

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Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 10d

Ah Bristol, you absolute beauty. Never fails!

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Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 11d

Poor you - some days are just rubbish. Can’t help with the animal, but maybe Handel can help soothe and support?

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Handel Giulio Cesare Son nata a lagrimar Randi Stene, Tuva Semmingsen Royal Danish Theater

YouTube video by dragan1412

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Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 11d

Watch this - 7 seconds of your life you won’t regret. 🤣👌

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 11d

What the internet's for.

PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 11d

Pete Hegseth accidentally flipping a skateboard into his nuts on live TV

Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 12d

Start the week right with Handel’s bold and energetic Arrival of the Queen of Sheba.

Whatever you have to accomplish this week - just pop this in your ears for 3 minutes and there’ll be no stopping you!

Happy Monday one and all!

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Handel: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba | Academy of Ancient Music

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Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 12d

Something a bit different a Sunday evening brings the weekend to a close. Close your eyes and remember Paris, with Virgil Thomson’s The Seine at night.

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Virgil Thomson: The Seine at Night - Leonard Bernstein - New York Philharmonic (1961)

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Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 14d

Clifton suspension bridge.

Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 14d

Chopin today, and in a minor mood.

The Op 34 waltzes will be on my music appreciation programme in the new year and they’re in my head this morning.

Just listen to the 2nd waltz (c40 seconds in) and tell me you don’t weep for the world?

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Anna Fedorova - Chopin - Waltz in A minor Op. 34 No. 2

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Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 16d

Leonin and Perotin - or “Len and Pete” as my old university Head of Dept used to call them. I listened to some Machaut recently for the first time in years and it blew me away. How did I not notice its beauty sooner?!

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Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 17d

What/who have you been listening to? I’m just embarking on a 12th century Hildegard exploration…

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Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 20d

Love the puddle reflection!

Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 21d

Isn’t it? Glad it hit the spot for you too.

Lotti @lottinewstead.bsky.social · 21d

Bach’s Double Violin Concerto, slow movement.

Just a glimmer of beauty and something of the greater good of the world. I hope it sets up your Friday to be rooted in what matters, and not to dwell on the noise of everything that disturbs.

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Itzhak Perlman and Isaac Stern play Bach Double Concerto (2)

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