James Taylor
@wagnerian79.bsky.social
'There is a God! And he's a gag-writer!'
Richard Wagner Society.
Titanic Historical Society.
Member of general human society (reluctantly)
Richard Wagner Society.
Titanic Historical Society.
Member of general human society (reluctantly)
Boring audiophile collectors post - Wagner's 'Ring' box set on 19 cassettes, the Janowski cycle from Dresden. An original from the GDR 😎 Yes the boxes are as utilitarian as you can get but the Chrome tapes mastered in Dolby Stereo are pretty luxurious...dare I even say bougie! But a fine set.
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Boring audiophile collectors post - Wagner's 'Ring' box set on 19 cassettes, the Janowski cycle from Dresden. An original from the GDR 😎 Yes the boxes are as utilitarian as you can get but the Chrome tapes mastered in Dolby Stereo are pretty luxurious...dare I even say bougie! But a fine set.
Gustav Mahler being told the same 'funny story' he's heard a billion times before.
November 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Gustav Mahler being told the same 'funny story' he's heard a billion times before.
Not a fan of how Wagner's music is used in this film, obviously! But intrigued by a 12" record that plays at 45rpm, supposedly giving better sound quality. We'll see...
(And Sir Adrian was a pretty impressive Wagner conductor, shame we didn't get more from him)
(And Sir Adrian was a pretty impressive Wagner conductor, shame we didn't get more from him)
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Not a fan of how Wagner's music is used in this film, obviously! But intrigued by a 12" record that plays at 45rpm, supposedly giving better sound quality. We'll see...
(And Sir Adrian was a pretty impressive Wagner conductor, shame we didn't get more from him)
(And Sir Adrian was a pretty impressive Wagner conductor, shame we didn't get more from him)
Reposted by James Taylor
This trend in cinema also seems to have bled in to theatre lighting too - I’ve lost count of the number of operas where I’ve wished I could see the singers’ faces.
Read my latest piece for the Guardian, asking what happened to vibrant and saturated colour in film! I chat with experts and critics to get to the bottom of it: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
Hollywood’s dark era: where did all the colour from movies go?
Blockbuster sequel Wicked: For Good has become the latest film to receive complaints about both the lack of colour and the inconsistent lighting
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
This trend in cinema also seems to have bled in to theatre lighting too - I’ve lost count of the number of operas where I’ve wished I could see the singers’ faces.
ChatGPT starting a Wagnerian conspiracy theory... so my favourite Meistersinger isn't by Karajan at all but is actually a random East German recording EMI released and just pretended it was?! 😲😂
November 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
ChatGPT starting a Wagnerian conspiracy theory... so my favourite Meistersinger isn't by Karajan at all but is actually a random East German recording EMI released and just pretended it was?! 😲😂
Berglund's Shosty is bloody good innit!
open.spotify.com/album/0Bw9LE...
open.spotify.com/album/0Bw9LE...
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 7 "Leningrad" & 11 "The Year 1905"
open.spotify.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Berglund's Shosty is bloody good innit!
open.spotify.com/album/0Bw9LE...
open.spotify.com/album/0Bw9LE...
Rainy Saturday ... guess I'm staying in with Shostakovich.
November 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Rainy Saturday ... guess I'm staying in with Shostakovich.
It's Friday, so as usual it's time for Bruckner's 8th. Obviously.
open.spotify.com/album/6D6un9...
open.spotify.com/album/6D6un9...
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor
open.spotify.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:33 AM
It's Friday, so as usual it's time for Bruckner's 8th. Obviously.
open.spotify.com/album/6D6un9...
open.spotify.com/album/6D6un9...
Got this box set out intending to watch one of the films - went through a disc of cartoons instead. Laughed like an idiot. No regrets.
November 19, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Got this box set out intending to watch one of the films - went through a disc of cartoons instead. Laughed like an idiot. No regrets.
Nelsons's Shosty set is a wonder. Marvellous playing and mostly excellent conducting.
open.spotify.com/album/7CREZm...
open.spotify.com/album/7CREZm...
Shostakovich: Symphonies; Concertos; Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District
open.spotify.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Nelsons's Shosty set is a wonder. Marvellous playing and mostly excellent conducting.
open.spotify.com/album/7CREZm...
open.spotify.com/album/7CREZm...
Might start knocking on people's doors and spreading the word... about Bruckner's 7th. If they haven't got the time I'll slip a (CD) booklet through the door. 🤔🙏
open.spotify.com/album/0LFpgJ...
open.spotify.com/album/0LFpgJ...
Bruckner: Sinfonie No. 7
open.spotify.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Might start knocking on people's doors and spreading the word... about Bruckner's 7th. If they haven't got the time I'll slip a (CD) booklet through the door. 🤔🙏
open.spotify.com/album/0LFpgJ...
open.spotify.com/album/0LFpgJ...
Composer of every week.
BBC Radio 3
Composer of the Week: Wagner
Now Playing
Richard Wagner & Pier Paolo Vincenzi
Piano Sonata in B flat major, Op 1 (2nd mvt, Larghetto)
Composer of the Week: Wagner
Now Playing
Richard Wagner & Pier Paolo Vincenzi
Piano Sonata in B flat major, Op 1 (2nd mvt, Larghetto)
November 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Composer of every week.
Time for the traditional Sunday Shosty*.
(*Traditional from hereon)
(*Traditional from hereon)
November 16, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Time for the traditional Sunday Shosty*.
(*Traditional from hereon)
(*Traditional from hereon)
I'm a vinyl fan but some of the pricing for this stuff is a bit ridiculous... I know it's all remastered and on high quality 180g vinyl, but still...
(I got the 1979 New Years Concert discs for a fiver at Notting Hill)
(I got the 1979 New Years Concert discs for a fiver at Notting Hill)
November 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I'm a vinyl fan but some of the pricing for this stuff is a bit ridiculous... I know it's all remastered and on high quality 180g vinyl, but still...
(I got the 1979 New Years Concert discs for a fiver at Notting Hill)
(I got the 1979 New Years Concert discs for a fiver at Notting Hill)
RIP Sir Donald McIntyre, my first Wotan.
Wotan's Farewell from Wagner's Die Walküre (musical motifs)(Boulez, McIn... youtu.be/Avfl8pokNLk?...
Wotan's Farewell from Wagner's Die Walküre (musical motifs)(Boulez, McIn... youtu.be/Avfl8pokNLk?...
Wotan's Farewell from Wagner's Die Walküre (musical motifs)(Boulez, McIntyre and Jones)
YouTube video by cragarrows
youtu.be
November 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
RIP Sir Donald McIntyre, my first Wotan.
Wotan's Farewell from Wagner's Die Walküre (musical motifs)(Boulez, McIn... youtu.be/Avfl8pokNLk?...
Wotan's Farewell from Wagner's Die Walküre (musical motifs)(Boulez, McIn... youtu.be/Avfl8pokNLk?...
Blinding Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet suites from Järvi (senior) and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
open.spotify.com/album/0Khi02...
open.spotify.com/album/0Khi02...
Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet Suites
open.spotify.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Blinding Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet suites from Järvi (senior) and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
open.spotify.com/album/0Khi02...
open.spotify.com/album/0Khi02...
This week I 'ave been mostly listening to Shostakovich.
open.spotify.com/album/1OwYNl...
open.spotify.com/album/1OwYNl...
Shostakovich: The Piano Concertos; Solo Works
open.spotify.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This week I 'ave been mostly listening to Shostakovich.
open.spotify.com/album/1OwYNl...
open.spotify.com/album/1OwYNl...
Shosty's String Quartets make a fine evening.
open.spotify.com/album/2KKcrs...
open.spotify.com/album/2KKcrs...
Shostakovich: The String Quartets
open.spotify.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Shosty's String Quartets make a fine evening.
open.spotify.com/album/2KKcrs...
open.spotify.com/album/2KKcrs...
So there's a job going at the BBC now I hear? Director General? 🤔
My cost saving proposal would be to scrap all the extra digital channels and just introduce one to replace them:
BBC Wagner.
(And NOT with Titchmarsh presenting)
My cost saving proposal would be to scrap all the extra digital channels and just introduce one to replace them:
BBC Wagner.
(And NOT with Titchmarsh presenting)
November 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
So there's a job going at the BBC now I hear? Director General? 🤔
My cost saving proposal would be to scrap all the extra digital channels and just introduce one to replace them:
BBC Wagner.
(And NOT with Titchmarsh presenting)
My cost saving proposal would be to scrap all the extra digital channels and just introduce one to replace them:
BBC Wagner.
(And NOT with Titchmarsh presenting)
In one of those 'must listen to Prokofiev and Shostakovich ' kind of moods. We all get them.
open.spotify.com/album/2Uwmsy...
open.spotify.com/album/2Uwmsy...
Shostakovich: Symphony No.5 / Prokofiev: Romeo And Juliet - Suite No.1
open.spotify.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
In one of those 'must listen to Prokofiev and Shostakovich ' kind of moods. We all get them.
open.spotify.com/album/2Uwmsy...
open.spotify.com/album/2Uwmsy...
Why have I not listened to Sinopoli's Tchaikovsky 6 until now?!
open.spotify.com/album/7jfcGk...
open.spotify.com/album/7jfcGk...
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6 "Pathétique"; Romeo and Julia - Fantasy Overture
open.spotify.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Why have I not listened to Sinopoli's Tchaikovsky 6 until now?!
open.spotify.com/album/7jfcGk...
open.spotify.com/album/7jfcGk...
More wonders from Giulini. A splendid way with Debussy and Ravel.
open.spotify.com/album/1BEpiC...
open.spotify.com/album/1BEpiC...
Debussy: La Mer & Nocturnes - Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte & Alborada del gracioso (Remastered 2025)
open.spotify.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
More wonders from Giulini. A splendid way with Debussy and Ravel.
open.spotify.com/album/1BEpiC...
open.spotify.com/album/1BEpiC...
As the shops have already started playing Christmas music guess it's not too early to start becoming obsessed with this again 😁
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
As the shops have already started playing Christmas music guess it's not too early to start becoming obsessed with this again 😁
Very impressed with Stage+. The sound quality is better than Spotify, even listening to both on Lossless Stage+ comes out best.
November 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Very impressed with Stage+. The sound quality is better than Spotify, even listening to both on Lossless Stage+ comes out best.
People in the office looking at me strangely as I air conduct... 😟
November 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
People in the office looking at me strangely as I air conduct... 😟