He was sent to Earth and died to redeem mankind. 🙏 (Ok not quite, but he did leave some great music and gripping drama). Death in Venice #OTD

Are there any jobs going where I can just sit around listening to Parsifal all day? Anyone want a Parsifal vinyl or CD tester? 🤔

She's 39 so her 30s aren't over for another year? And why are you still going on about her clothing?

Love how with online AI you can talk to it about Shakespeare, it can paint you a picture, write you a short story, explain nuclear physics etc. And yet AI in computer games still struggles to work out how a door works.

The excerpts from Siegfried and Parsifal on here are genuinely amazing too. Beautifully played and sensitively sung by Theo Adam with Peter Schreier.

As convenient as streaming is, putting on physical media feels like you're properly and seriously listening to music!

Hans Knappertsbusch offers help to Wieland Wagner, Herbert von Karajan and Wolfgang Wagner on a particularly difficult game of Sudoku.

Cheers Presto Music! Had to own such a great Mahler 9. Also giving Siggy conducting his dad a go.... not bad at all! The Parsifal Good Friday excerpt is particularly good. Nicely restored sound.

Furtwängler and the Berlin Philharmonic

Make it a Schubert Friday. open.spotify.com/album/6KZWlg...

Wishing @southbankcentre.bsky.social all the best for Classical Mixtape Live Takeover Thursday this week. Hoping every single SBC board member attends and has Damascene realisation that they actually run one of the capital’s premier classical music centres. www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/cla...

New release from the LPO. My first live Mahler 9 back in December 2022! Jurowski, as usual, didn't disappoint - it was a stunning performance and I'm looking forward to re-hearing it (with some strong drink!). Hugely recommended.

Sir Simon at only 24, about to take over Birmingham (the orchestra, not the city). Simon Rattle on Face the Music (BBC, Joseph Cooper) - 1979 youtu.be/mF8p8KhHZSc?...

I knew playing Wagner and Bruckner loudly would yield results one day.... Don't worry lads, once I blast out Karajan's Beethoven cycle we've got this... Peterborough bids to become UK City Of Culture www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/people/...

Maurice Ravel rushing out the house to tell you to get off his lawn.

A Bruckner 8 from Jochum I haven't heard before? Evening sorted. open.spotify.com/album/6uuH7O...

Bismarck Bow — Raw Digital Twin Capture Footage (3 Hours, Uncut) youtu.be/XTbKYW3_m0k?...

Mozart's Symphonies 40 & 41 are two of the most wonderful things in life. Miracles in sound! open.spotify.com/album/25ydGD...

I can confirm it's pretty glorious.... The Glorious Sound of Wagner (2023 Remastered Version) open.spotify.com/album/1cmgEQ...

Karajan giving the latest Lloyd Webber hit a listen.

Desktop wallpaper for Windows Wagner Edition.

Otmar Suitner: Mozart Symphony No. 35 "Haffner" (SKB, 1981) youtu.be/_j13LkqVAWw?...

"Without music, life would be a mistake" said Nietzsche, and without Mozart it would be unbearable. Happy birthday mate! Mozart: Sinfonie Nr. 41 C-Dur KV 551 (»Jupiter«) ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ... youtu.be/6RbKWhr0o1c?...

Karajan conducting Wagner. I'm here for it. open.spotify.com/album/6pSh3X...

Not usually a fan of 'orchestral adventures' and 'without words' arrangements etc from the Ring, but this one isn't too bad, and does still feature the vocal parts. open.spotify.com/album/6fQ6Ad...

Wondering if I should start going to the gym or listen to the Siegfried Idyll more? I've heard the latter hundreds of times already...so why stop now.... open.spotify.com/album/5XUlNO...

Dear Bayreuth Festival, because you did not give me tickets to the 2026 festival despite me being the BEST Wagner fan since time began, and owning MULTIPLE Rings on CD and DVD - including a cassette box set from the DDR - I shall now be taking over the festival for world security. Thank you!

AN EVENING OF TITANIC MUSIC! The White Star Line Quintet: LIVE IN CONCERT! youtu.be/fLlD9XWu2Is?...

Sunday evening is not a great time. Unless you make it great with Schubert's 'Great'. open.spotify.com/album/38bG3O...

Mahler's 8th, live from Berlin. Gonna be phenom!

Glenn Gould on board a boat, before falling in the water and crying: "Ooh Betty, I've wet myself!"

Wagner's Symphony in C - or Beethoven's lost early symphony! open.spotify.com/album/7kKlO7...

Tár available on iPlayer for anyone who hasn't seen it yet. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Furty spending his free time as a chauffeur to an aristocratic dog.

Some morning Beethoven. open.spotify.com/playlist/0Uk...

Thank goodness I can stay indoors today. Oh wait, I have to go back to work.... 😭

Sunday Parsifal. The current Bayreuth production. It's not bad at all (although I've yet to see what a VR headset would bring to it)

R. Wagner: "PARSIFAL" (L'Opéra de Paris, 1976) Vickers, Denize, Moll, Ad... youtu.be/bE_AnFNy24o?...

When someone asks me what my ideal evening would be...

Poster for the 1964 DEFA film of Der fliegende Holländer directed by Joachim Herz, 1964. Seeing this on the big screen in 2013 was one of the highlights of the Wagner bicentenary for me!

The Flying Dutchman: Act III, The Ecstasy of Senta and the Dutchman (Henri Fantin-Latour, 1886)

Nige plays Beethoven. open.spotify.com/album/40sBwl...

Happy New Year friends! My resolution this year is to listen to more Wagner. Will I be able to stick to this? 🤔 It's a tough one as you can imagine.....

Let's hope it's a good one next year. (Image by Richard Wagner Verband Köln)

A reminder of how great Thielemann's Wagner can be when he's not pulling the music around too much, speeding up or slowing down suddenly etc. open.spotify.com/album/0NGS2e...

Maybe not the most Christmassy programme, but this is an excellent new documentary. Titanic Sinks Tonight, Series 1: The Unsinkable Ship: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002hyvj

I've had my TV for nearly 10 years and only now have I found a setting that makes the picture quality look amazing. I now need to re-watch everything I've seen over the past 10 years.

Karajan, the German* Maestro - Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner & Brahms (*Austrian Maestro? Shome mishtake, shurely?) open.spotify.com/album/7Foi4Z...

German-born actress, singer and cabaret performer Marlene Dietrich was born #OTD in 1901. Whilst travelling to London in 1933 Dietrich was approached by Nazi Party members who tried to persuade her to become the ‘pretty face’ of the Third Reich. holocaustmusic.ort.o...