I've got all your symphony and orchestral #NewRelease Easter eggs in one basket this #NewReleaseFriday: Shostakovich from John Storgårds and my local BBC orchestra, contemporary works down the road from me in Liverpool, plus Mozart expanded and more. ▶️ open.qobuz.com/playlist/513...

#NewRelease Pascal Rogé: The Complete Decca Recordings on 43 CDs @loveinner.bsky.social Is the Easter Bunny bringing you a present this weekend?

de laatste in de #Nordic reeks: de dark forces of #BaraGisladottir 🇧🇻 Bára Gísladóttir/Iceland SO, cond. Eva Ollikainen - VAPE / Hringla /COR (Dacapo 2024) #np

Today’s #OnlineArtExchange theme is ‘music’ for A Grand Chorus: The Power of Music at Foundling Museum. Explore the life-affirming power of music through the lens of Handel’s iconic ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ in this exhibition 'A Choir of Foundling Girls' by Thérèse Schwartze 📷 The Foundling Museum

I’ve loved Howard Hanson’s Second Symphony for a long time. Now I love his Third too (and the Fourth, and getting to know the others)

#TheCompleteBritten #64 Coal Face - film score for commentator, whistler, chorus, flute, piccolo, 2 clarinets, percussion & 2 pianos (1935) The GPO Film Unit's "first influential film" (BFI), was Britten's first collaboration with two men who assumed "vital roles in Britten's life" (Paul Kildea).

Je continue ma série d'articles sur les symphonies de Beethoven avec cette semaine un article sur la 2e symphonie, une œuvre d'une étonnante légèreté composée à un moment où Beethoven prenait conscience que sa surdité s'aggravait considérablement. beethovenetlesautres.wordpress.com/2026/03/31/l...

A multiple-choice question asked the villagers their favourite moon of another planet. Many picked B), which was Titan, but Old MacDonald had a far more personal selection: E) (i.e., Io).

It's no joke - my #TheCompleteBritten Youtube playlist now has 132 videos of over 60 different musical works. And it's still only 1935!

#TheCompleteBritten #63 The King's Stamp - film score for flute, clarinet, percussion and two pianos (1935) Britten's first music for the General Post Office's new Film Unit. The film documented the design and production of a postage stamp to commemorate King George V's Silver Jubilee.

Women's History Every Day Orin O'Brien, double bass player, was the first woman in the NY PHILHARMONIC. She was hired by Leonard Bernstein in 1966. She retired in 2021.

#TheCompleteBritten #62 Two Insect Pieces for oboe and piano (1935) 1. The Grasshopper Britten had planned a suite of five movements, all inspired by insects but, as with Holiday Diary, another work composed in the wake of his father's death, the other movements never got past the sketch stage.

#TheCompleteBritten #62 Two Insect Pieces for oboe and piano (1935) 1. The Grasshopper Britten had planned a suite of five movements, all inspired by insects but, as with Holiday Diary, another work composed in the wake of his father's death, the other movements never got past the sketch stage.

Ho ho! #ComingSoon

All the versions of the Third Symphony are interesting, but I'm not sure I'd agree that one is better than another. It's worth remembering that Bruckner himself regarded the 1889 version as the one he wanted to leave to posterity.

#TheCompleteBritten #61 A Poison Tree (1935) Britten cast aside this sharp-edged, angular, tonally endangered setting, his first of William Blake ("it’s not much good - more an exercise than anything"), but returned to the same text three decades later in his Songs and Proverbs cycle, Op. 74.

The sun's still shining, and the birds are still singing, and at last, on Sunday evening, I feel like the weekend has begun #NegroniTime

I'm giving myself a damn good Haydn for the rest of the weekend. #NowListening #NewReleases2026 #57 #58

#TheCompleteBritten #60 Holiday Diary, Op. 5 1. Early Morning Bathe Instead of a holiday, I'm spending Sunday morning catching up on some work, after a cold shower that I'm anticipating with much the same apprehension you can hear in Britten's depiction of a dip in the chilly North Sea.

Racist twats turning on Matthew Goodwin for being a fellow twat whose twattishness transcends even their epic racism are still racist twats. Try not to praise them for it.

When are they gonna do something that IS for the faint hearted? I've been waiting so long.

READ: “While I know that driving is a necessity for some, for me, it has been 1st and foremost a habit. My experience of driving less has reminded me that when we can, it’s worth questioning our habits…because what’s comfortable doesn’t necessarily make us feel happy or free.” How change can start.

Rule Britalia! #NowListening #NewReleases2026 #56

Herb Alpert, who turns 91 on March 31, performing in the Lyric Opera House, Baltimore, last night: "Nice to play in a building that's older than me." baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/dan-...

J'ai hâte d'entendre Die Schöpfung en français 🥖 #NewRelease

Happy #NewReleaseFriday! This week Andris Nelsons hopes we'll all be happy to hear him conduct 8 hours of Felix Mendelssohn with the orchesta the composer himself once led, and that we'll stop speculating why the Boston Symphony board decided to show him the door. ▶️ open.qobuz.com/playlist/513...

I tink I like Haitink.

Happy #NewReleaseFriday! This week Andris Nelsons hopes we'll all be happy to hear him conduct 8 hours of Felix Mendelssohn with the orchesta the composer himself once led, and that we'll stop speculating why the Boston Symphony board decided to show him the door. ▶️ open.qobuz.com/playlist/513...

J'ai hâte d'entendre Die Schöpfung en français 🥖 #NewRelease

Good morning @loveinner.bsky.social. Will Bernard Haitink's Complete London Philips Recordings be in your postbox? #NewRelease

there was a young man from cork who got limericks and haikus confused

Then perhaps I can interest you in a free 920-page PDF? 😋 archive.org/details/TheS...

I once had the great fortune of having dinner with the Haydn expert Robbins (Robbie) Landon (in the late 1990s). An incredible man with an amazing energy, generosity, and convivial spirit.

What he said

#TheCompleteBritten #59 May, for unison children's voices and piano (1934) May may still be two months away, but listening to this jolly little song will make you feel as if spring has well and truly sprung, and like the weekend has arrived two days early 🐝🐦🐰

Born on this day: Aretha Franklin

#TheCompleteBritten #57 Jubilate Deo in E-flat (1934) 🧵 Britten had been so prolific until now, that it seems strange he composed nothing for months after completing the Simple Symphony in February 1934, until you notice the period coincides with his father's death in April, after a long illness.

#TheCompleteBritten #57 Jubilate Deo in E-flat (1934) 🧵 Britten had been so prolific until now, that it seems strange he composed nothing for months after completing the Simple Symphony in February 1934, until you notice the period coincides with his father's death in April, after a long illness.

Born 24 March 1935 - Carol Kaye, one of the most prolific bass guitarists, who has played on an estimated 10,000 recordings in a career spanning over 50 years. Kaye was the bassist on many Phil Spector and Brian Wilson productions in the 1960s and 1970s. She is 91 years old today. #CarolKaye

#TheCompleteBritten #56 Simple Symphony, Op. 4 for string orchestra or string quartet (1934) 1. Boisterous Bourrée 2. Playful Pizzicato 3. Sentimental Sarabande 4. Frolicsome Finale Britten's first published piece that's playable by amateurs. If you're this good 🔽 you don't even need a conductor!

I like it and I have its score. Seeing score, Britten's skillfull instrumentation can be analysed. BTW, it is said this is Korean ensemble so let me rewrite my above sentence in Korean. lol (I'm not a native Korean speaker). 저는 이 음악을 너무 좋아하고 그 악보(스코어)를 가지고 있어요. 악보를 보면 프리텐의 매우 능숙한 작곡 기술을 해석할 수 있네요.

#TheCompleteBritten #56 Simple Symphony, Op. 4 for string orchestra or string quartet (1934) 1. Boisterous Bourrée 2. Playful Pizzicato 3. Sentimental Sarabande 4. Frolicsome Finale Britten's first published piece that's playable by amateurs. If you're this good 🔽 you don't even need a conductor!

Good morning

Lisi Tribble Russell, Ken Russell's widow, said that the great director asked William Shatner to play Franz Schubert in a film about the composer. Alas, the film was never made. In the words of Tom Lehrer, "take me to your lieder."

William Shatner is 95. Here’s what was going through his mind as he boldly went where a small group of people went before. Humble & haunting.

#TheCompleteBritten #55 A Boy was Born, Op. 3 (1933) Britten's first masterpiece marked the changing of England's musical guard. Premiered on the day Elgar died, his 19-year-old successor married compositional virtuosity to vivid word painting and emotion that goes straight to the heart ❤️

Lie: Bike-lanes cause traffic congestion. Truth: Bike-lanes help solve traffic congestion. Lie: Bike-lanes hurt street shops if they replace parking. Truth: Bike-lanes help street shops more than street parking does. Lie: Bike-lanes cost us too much. Truth: Bike-lanes save us all public money.

#TheCompleteBritten #55 A Boy was Born, Op. 3 (1933) Britten's first masterpiece marked the changing of England's musical guard. Premiered on the day Elgar died, his 19-year-old successor married compositional virtuosity to vivid word painting and emotion that goes straight to the heart ❤️

#NowListening to a new Mahler 5 that slipped under my radar when it appeared a few weeks ago. It's on Reference Recordings, so the sound should be good at least. Let's see if #NewReleases2026 #52 lights my fire ...