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The Symphonist

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Passionate symphony lover. Other music is good too.

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The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · Mar 31

#A-Haydn-A-Day is back! As before, I'm putting my favourite recording of each work on a playlist. It's more justified to call Haydn The Father of the String Quartet than of the symphony, as in this case he more-or-less invented the medium.

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Marika @trickysurname.bsky.social · 15h

This is just fantastic!

"I'm a Barbie girl" again, but in the style of 6 classical composers 🎹 🎤 - Josep Castanyer Alonso

YouTube video by Josep Castanyer Alonso

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The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 14h

You're welcome, Fritz. So glad you got to enjoy it too!

The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 22h

Petrenko is so good at orchestral showpieces like this, and the RPO sound better than ever since he took over.

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The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 1d

Isn't that Gallonophobia?

The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 1d

This was an absolute cracker! Listen while you can!

Vaughan Williams Foundation @vwfndn.bsky.social · 1d

🎧 Four days left to listen!

Live at the BBC Proms: the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko in Respighi's Pines of Rome and Vaughan Williams's 'A London Symphony'.

Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Listen here 👇

BBC Proms - 2025 - BBC Proms: Vaughan Williams’s ‘A London Symphony’ - BBC Sounds

Live at the BBC Proms: the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dan Sheehan @dansheehan.memyon.org · 1d

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) film composer #BOTD
What?
Yes.
THAT Saint-Saëns.
Famous for his "Carnival of the Animals" and other concert works, he was the first major composer to write an original film score, for the 1908 THE ASSASSINATION OF THE DUKE OF GUISE.
#filmsky #moviesky #classicalmusic

Saint-Saëns - L'Assassinat du duc de Guise (soundtrack) - 1908

YouTube video by GGbreizh

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 2d

Gang! This is in Sheffield on Friday. A whistle stop tour through some unbelievable CHOOOOONS for newbies and lifers alike. I cannot wait. Come see, if you’re in the S. Yorks environs or thereabouts.

musicintheround.co.uk/events/chris...

CHRIS ADDISON'S INCOMPLETE GUIDE TO CHAMBER MUSIC

CHRIS ADDISON'S INCOMPLETE GUIDE TO CHAMBER MUSIC - Music in the Round %

musicintheround.co.uk

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The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 2d

Antonio's bassoon concerti are the bomb!

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 2d

The Green surge continues ... We’ve just passed 90,000 members! 💚

People everywhere are joining the movement for real change.

Want hope to be normal again? Join the Green Party today ↩️

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 3d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 3d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 4d

Nobody's perfect.

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 4d

Epic; no notes

Headline from the Times: "Bestselling novelist Jilly Cooper dies in fall aged 88", illustrated with a rather famous black and white picture of Virginia Woolf

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The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 4d

I don't care what anyone says, I feel robbed if I don't get it.

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English Symphony Orchestra @englishsymphony.bsky.social · 5d

The Joker’s Wild – Mischief in Music @Malvern Theatres
Wed 12th November, 7.30pm
Tickets: malvern-theatres.co.uk/event/eso-th...
Haydn – Symphony No. 60 (Il Distratto)
Weill – Cabaret Songs
Schulhoff – Suite for Chamber Orchestra
Milhaud – The Ox on the Roof
April Fredrick, soprano
@kennethwoods.net

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 5d

IMO The Miracle is even better than the Surprise, and still in many ways my favourite #96 on record.

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The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 5d

The excitement and the architecture, perfectly balanced.

The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 5d

Mine too, obvs. There are various ways to approach Tapiola, but for the sheer grandeur of its dark, fire-flecked magic, there's no one quite like Herbie.

The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 5d

Here's twit-twooking at you, kid.
A beautiful thread.

Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 5d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 5d

Gibson by a short head of these four. I'd hope everyone also hears IMO the best En Saga (his first significant tone poem) and Tapiola (his last) on disc 🔥❄️🖤

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 5d

Labour’s response to over 100,000 fascists in the streets of London is to appease them

Labour’s response to peaceful protesters demanding an end to genocide is to arrest over 1,000 people and now they are increasing police power.

Starmer is continuing the Tory project.

Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 5d

When Labour came to power last year it followed 14 years of Tory rule in which international monitors had issued stark warnings about the UK's "authoritarian turn" through crackdowns on political protest and migrants' rights. Starmer is continuing that project.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Police to get new powers to crack down on repeated protests, says Home Office

Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on Saturday

www.theguardian.com

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 5d

“Select all squares containing J D Salinger books” - CAPTCHA in the Rye.

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Ecoanarchist @ecoanarchism.bsky.social · 5d

There is only one, solitary party and leader that now stands willing to defend unequivocally the basic human and civil rights that have underpinned English law for centuries: @greenparty.org.uk and @zackpolanski.bsky.social . That’s real patriotism! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests

Officers will be able to tell organisers to move demonstrations if protests have caused "repeated disorder".

www.bbc.com

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The Symphonist @deeplyclassical.bsky.social · 6d

Hope things are un-trickifying. I'm on holiday next week, which gives me a chance to catch up.