Two gorgeous helpings of it's-later-than-you-think late Romantic loveliness, including the teenage Korngold's sublime Sinfonietta, followed by Krenek's jolly jazz-Eurodance mashup. Orchestra, conductor & engineers capture the saturated, seductive soundworld superbly ❤️❤️❤️ #NewReleases2025 #225

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy

The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling

When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?

I confess I knew nothing of Swedish composer Elfrida Andrée’s (1841-1929) music until producer Luke Whitlock suggested her. But then I went down an #Andrée rabbit hole - and what riches! Join Donald Macleod for Composer of the Week 4pm Mon-Fri @BBCRadio3 #classicalmusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

On behalf of all film music aficionados I hereby declare November 10th a national holiday. It marks the birth anniversary of four legendary film music artists: 𝄇 Carl Stalling (1891-1972) 𝄇 Ennio Morricone (1928-2020) 𝄇 Marilyn Bergman (1929-2022) 𝄇 Billy May (1916-2004) #filmsky #moviesky #musicsky

This reminds me that Alban Berg was a confirmed petrolhead, too! Unfortunately, I can’t find any reference to this on album covers of his music.

If you see this, post an album cover with a vehicle on it.

No. 1 with a bullet! #NewReleases2025 #223 has gone straight to the top of my list of the year's best Mahler recordings.

Saw someone with the same teeth as me at the coincidentist.

For Remembrance Sunday, my Perhaps, to a very beautiful and moving text by Vera Britain, written after her fiancé was killed in WWI: Perhaps one day the sun will shine again, And I shall see that still the skies are blue. And feel once more I do not live in vain, Although bereft of You

My delicious Manchester Morgue martini #NowDrinking #NowWatching

#NewReleaseFriday slips to Saturday again, thanks to a work trip to Stockholm. I return to find a monster Mahler week with #NewReleases by Paavo Järvi, Klaus Mäkelä and Kahchun Wong. Also Walton 1 from John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London! Let's get cracking #NowListening ▶️ spoti.fi/400asdn

2025 is the 50th anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich's death. These are all still my go-tos after many years. Bernie's Babi Yar nailed me to the spot within seconds when I first heard it in a Cambridge record shop. Lenny's Leningrad is possibly my favourite symphony recording of all.

Four great Haydn symphony discs not from the usual suspects. Monteux's Clock is the best bar none. I love that Egarr (a harpischordist) does La Passione without continuo. McGegan's just three of Haydn's greatest symphonies superbly done. Herbig shows big bands can do early symphonies brilliantly.

@deeplyclassical.bsky.social You may very well own one incarnation of this, but I do think this special offer is something of an absolute bargain from Presto. Interested parties can find it easily: it does take some time to download, especially if one of the 'posh frock' file formats! c. 9 GB.

A film you've seen more than seven times with a gif

'Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead.' In the summer of 1821, John Constable began making direct studies in the open air of cloud formations. These were mostly made from the high ground at Hampstead village - an ideal observation point.

Reporting from Machester, the Hallé John Adams festival lauch with the composer conducting Slonimsky’s Earbox (1995), Livre de Baudelaire (1887-89/1994), Pat’s Aria from Nixon in China (1985-87) and Harmonium (1980-81) with soprano Mary Bevan and Hallé Choir. #adventuresinmusic

What's better than a Saturday negroni? A spooky Saturday negroni! #NowDrinking #NowWatching

Mahler 9 and Strauss's Four Last Songs with the @englishsymphony.bsky.social in @Cheltenham Town Hall on the 2nd of December. This should be unforgettable. Make your plans today! TICKETS cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk/event/englis... youtu.be/h7czscP_gOM

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Happy #NewReleaseFriday! Evenings are drawing in and temperatures are dropping (in my hemisphere at least), but one of my lovely local orchestras is here with "an hour and a quarter of musical sunshine" (@theguardian.com) to keep me warm on dark winter nights. Try it here ▶️ spoti.fi/400asdn

I've been wildly in love with "Harmonium" by John Adams for over 35 years, so what luxury it was for me to see and hear the composer himself conduct it at @bridgewaterhall.bsky.social last night with the mighty massed forces of @thehalle.bsky.social orchestra & chorus!

Happy #NewReleaseFriday! Evenings are drawing in and temperatures are dropping (in my hemisphere at least), but one of my lovely local orchestras is here with "an hour and a quarter of musical sunshine" (@theguardian.com) to keep me warm on dark winter nights. Try it here ▶️ spoti.fi/400asdn

Good morning @loveinner.bsky.social. Ready for another Haydn symphony deep dive yet? A gramophone classic freshly remastered on 41 CDs! #NewRelease

Today’s Halloween poem is called ‘Come, take this hand in yours’.

Howard Hanson was born in Nebraska on this day in 1896. Although the Violin Concerto is probably his best known work, the warm and stirring Third Symphony is perhaps his finest piece (one of seven symphonies written over a span of more than half a century).

It's coming. quiresandplaces.com/collections/...

Time to give myself a damn good Haydn #NowListening #NewReleases2025 215

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makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies

Ever wondered what a Baroque hunt sounds like? 🤔 Vivaldi’s La caccia (“The Hunt”) from Op. 8 is full of musical secrets: horn calls, “barking” dogs, fleeing deer, and even the moment the wounded beast falls. What’s fascinating? Among concertos 7–12, titles are rare — La caccia stands out.

It has to be a negroni to accompany such an obvious homage to Italian Giallo cinema. #NowWatching #NowDrinking

#NowWatching with My Darling.

It's World Opera Day. #opera #worldoperaday #filmsky #moviesky #musicsky

It's time to staaaart Rea-ding this booook #NowReading

A happy Martinů morning to you, me hearties! #NowListening #NewReleases2025 #212 I'm not familiar with the concertos at all, and they're certainly getting my weekend off to an energetic start.

"He made his living as an orthopedist and later as the manager of a saw mill and glass factory, and became more appreciated as a composer after his death than he had been in his lifetime"

During his career Vaughan Williams wrote no less than six operas, including Hugh the Drover, Riders to the Sea and The Pilgrim’s Progress. This #WorldOperaDay why not explore them?

A happy Martinů morning to you, me hearties! #NowListening #NewReleases2025 #212 I'm not familiar with the concertos at all, and they're certainly getting my weekend off to an energetic start.

What's your favorite use of pre-existing classical music in a movie not directed by Stanley Kubrick? Mine is probably "Hall of the Mountain King" from Fritz Lang's M, the main melody of which is whistled by the killer. Runner up: Howard Hanson's Symphony No. 2 ("Romantic") at the end of Alien

I always have a soft spot for Holst, his music is such a great entry point for children and it certainly was for me but I also greatly appreciate that he was so committed to women’s education and women in classical music

🎶 Cinque… Otto… Tredici… Ventuno… Trentaquattro… Cinquantacinque… 🎵 (Le Nozze di Fibonacci)

I recently obtained this record of Bartók piano & orchestra works, it's been a real treat. I think I might love Bartók...

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How I'll be feeling until at least mid-December.

Oh Antonín, you beauty! Sometimes only Dvořák will do. #NewRelease2025 #211 is a wonderful way to welcome in the weekend #NowListening ❤️🧔

Happy #NewReleaseFriday! A Russian quartet opens my playlist this week: a bumper box of Scriabin orchestral works (+ the concerto that follows them round on record), Ustvolskaya's 5 increasingly laser-focused symphonies, a Tchaikovsky twosome, plus Prokofiev 4. Try them here ▶️ spoti.fi/400asdn