Moon Pavilion
@moonpavilion.bsky.social
I really should be off social media, and playing the piano - with feeling
Richmond-upon-Thames/Ayrshire, Scotland.
Richmond-upon-Thames/Ayrshire, Scotland.
I can almost hear Sir Humphrey advising Bernard:
"On second thoughts, best not to talk about donkeys in connection with the PM"
#YesMinister #YesPrimeMINISTER
"On second thoughts, best not to talk about donkeys in connection with the PM"
#YesMinister #YesPrimeMINISTER
September 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I can almost hear Sir Humphrey advising Bernard:
"On second thoughts, best not to talk about donkeys in connection with the PM"
#YesMinister #YesPrimeMINISTER
"On second thoughts, best not to talk about donkeys in connection with the PM"
#YesMinister #YesPrimeMINISTER
It’s always a pleasure to read the words of John Steane. Bellini, I Puritani: Maria Callas & Joan Sutherland
September 16, 2025 at 8:14 AM
It’s always a pleasure to read the words of John Steane. Bellini, I Puritani: Maria Callas & Joan Sutherland
In preparation for a visit to an opera house I’ve LONG wanted to see. On previous trips to this far-off city, it’s been sold out or not the season. More later…
September 16, 2025 at 8:05 AM
In preparation for a visit to an opera house I’ve LONG wanted to see. On previous trips to this far-off city, it’s been sold out or not the season. More later…
Delighted to see this soon for issue. "I was there" [for No.5] as Max Boyce would have said, and was so moved at the ending, possibly my favourite quiet ending of any symphony.
September 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Delighted to see this soon for issue. "I was there" [for No.5] as Max Boyce would have said, and was so moved at the ending, possibly my favourite quiet ending of any symphony.
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli may be about to play Debussy, but he's actually reconsidering the wisdom of having chosen a baloney sandwich for lunch...
August 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli may be about to play Debussy, but he's actually reconsidering the wisdom of having chosen a baloney sandwich for lunch...
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1920-1995)
"Are you a pianist?"
#arturobenedettimichelangeli #michelangeli
"Are you a pianist?"
#arturobenedettimichelangeli #michelangeli
August 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1920-1995)
"Are you a pianist?"
#arturobenedettimichelangeli #michelangeli
"Are you a pianist?"
#arturobenedettimichelangeli #michelangeli
Pianist Jorge Bolet is part of the so-called "New York taste".
I originally misread the Italian reviewer (1975), thought this said: "New Iroqois taste" and was baffled!
...cosiddetto "gusto" nuovairochese/nuovaiorchese...
I originally misread the Italian reviewer (1975), thought this said: "New Iroqois taste" and was baffled!
...cosiddetto "gusto" nuovairochese/nuovaiorchese...
August 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Pianist Jorge Bolet is part of the so-called "New York taste".
I originally misread the Italian reviewer (1975), thought this said: "New Iroqois taste" and was baffled!
...cosiddetto "gusto" nuovairochese/nuovaiorchese...
I originally misread the Italian reviewer (1975), thought this said: "New Iroqois taste" and was baffled!
...cosiddetto "gusto" nuovairochese/nuovaiorchese...
Good to be reminded of the eloquence and wit of Jeremy Siepmann whom I first heard talking about Schnabel on BBC Radio 3 in the early 1980s. Here on Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (whom he admired tremendously):
August 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Good to be reminded of the eloquence and wit of Jeremy Siepmann whom I first heard talking about Schnabel on BBC Radio 3 in the early 1980s. Here on Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (whom he admired tremendously):
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and Carlos Kleiber never made a recording of Beethoven's Emperor in 1975. First obstacle...
August 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and Carlos Kleiber never made a recording of Beethoven's Emperor in 1975. First obstacle...
I wonder when this young pianist first started showing signs of eccentricity.
August 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I wonder when this young pianist first started showing signs of eccentricity.
I think I'm now going to feel "short changed" when I read music reviews in 2025! Here's an Austrian paper from 1948
August 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I think I'm now going to feel "short changed" when I read music reviews in 2025! Here's an Austrian paper from 1948
No cheating: your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it? (I don’t think she’s taking me seriously)
August 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
No cheating: your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it? (I don’t think she’s taking me seriously)
August 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM
A bit tangential, but I thought of this from Frasier TV sitcom:
July 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
A bit tangential, but I thought of this from Frasier TV sitcom:
Jorge Bolet chides a student:
"This is Chopin, not boogie-woogie. You can not be SERIOUS!"
A young John McEnroe noted the phrase.
"This is Chopin, not boogie-woogie. You can not be SERIOUS!"
A young John McEnroe noted the phrase.
July 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Jorge Bolet chides a student:
"This is Chopin, not boogie-woogie. You can not be SERIOUS!"
A young John McEnroe noted the phrase.
"This is Chopin, not boogie-woogie. You can not be SERIOUS!"
A young John McEnroe noted the phrase.
One single example: I was able to understand that IIIA and VI are related and could compare them.
July 12, 2025 at 8:23 PM
One single example: I was able to understand that IIIA and VI are related and could compare them.
I have that, too. Haven’t listened to it for quite a while. My recollection - probably wrong - is that it was a little too much on the fast side. this Hungarian version is a live recording, and I enjoyed that
July 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I have that, too. Haven’t listened to it for quite a while. My recollection - probably wrong - is that it was a little too much on the fast side. this Hungarian version is a live recording, and I enjoyed that
This is my “go to” performance
July 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This is my “go to” performance
“Lord Elgin Marbles acquired these glass balls fairly and squarely.”
July 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
“Lord Elgin Marbles acquired these glass balls fairly and squarely.”
“…No less intriguing claims that Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli was a virtuoso driver of Ferraris, a fully qualified pilot and, last but not least, a doctor of medicine.”
Favourite quotation about the pianist
(Also: He appeared at concerts, ghostly, cadaverous, “looking like a well-tended grave”)
Favourite quotation about the pianist
(Also: He appeared at concerts, ghostly, cadaverous, “looking like a well-tended grave”)
July 12, 2025 at 11:43 AM
“…No less intriguing claims that Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli was a virtuoso driver of Ferraris, a fully qualified pilot and, last but not least, a doctor of medicine.”
Favourite quotation about the pianist
(Also: He appeared at concerts, ghostly, cadaverous, “looking like a well-tended grave”)
Favourite quotation about the pianist
(Also: He appeared at concerts, ghostly, cadaverous, “looking like a well-tended grave”)
“O tempora, o mores”
In modern parlance:
“WTF, these are crazy times”
In modern parlance:
“WTF, these are crazy times”
July 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
“O tempora, o mores”
In modern parlance:
“WTF, these are crazy times”
In modern parlance:
“WTF, these are crazy times”
If only I'd known to type in not the (original) Czech, nor the English title, but the French one. Silly me.
July 10, 2025 at 2:08 PM
If only I'd known to type in not the (original) Czech, nor the English title, but the French one. Silly me.
Graham Greene's Life Hack (lightly adapted from "Travels with my Aunt" [1969])
July 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Graham Greene's Life Hack (lightly adapted from "Travels with my Aunt" [1969])
The Apple Pay generation will loudly demand that obscure activists and Instagram poets replace Churchill on our banknotes—while the pensioners who still use cash are left wondering why their tenner now features someone who looks like they just won ‘Bake Off’.
July 3, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The Apple Pay generation will loudly demand that obscure activists and Instagram poets replace Churchill on our banknotes—while the pensioners who still use cash are left wondering why their tenner now features someone who looks like they just won ‘Bake Off’.