Waiting for 2025 to end

BWV 903: Chromatic Fantasia and fugue in D minor

There's nothing quite like a feel-good Christmas film. Ho! Ho! Ho! #NowDrinking #NowWatching

My favorites of the year. Up at Classical Candor. classicalcandor.blogspot.com/2025/12/ryan...

Favourite ghost sighting of the year was January in Ramsgate #ghosts #haunting

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Wagner’s undiscovered 9-hour mega opera

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Gary Graffman, Piano Virtuoso and Renowned Teacher, Dies at 97 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/a...

Paying a bit more in return for knowing that Bezos is getting none of my money is worth every fucking penny

JD Vance’s French Horn Solo Booed At Kennedy Center https://theonion.com/jd-vances-french-horn-solo-booed-at-kennedy-center/

Nerds of the world, unite! ❤️

Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.

🧵 1/9 The history of Hollywood's Golden Age is linked with the story of Europeans fleeing the rise of fascism in the 1930s. This is especially true for some of the film composers of that era. None more so than the great Franz Waxman, whose birthday we celebrate today (1906-1967). #filmsky #musicsky

My mental jukebox has been playing Bond movie themes ever since I saw that we were having our Christmas lunch next door to John Barry's childhood home.

GEEEEEEEEETTTTTTT DRESSED, you merry gentlemen, let nothing you dismay! For it is Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Day! IIIITTTTT’S Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Christmas Day! It is Chriiii-i-i-i-i-istmas Day Christmas Day! It is Chri-HI-HI-HI-HI-HI-HISTMAS DAY!

It's time. #NowListening

Oh litmus tree Oh litmus tree I know your precise acidity

A splen-did reeeeeeead I re-com- meeeeeend

I've had this on my shelf for ages. Finally, I'm ready to get stuck in #NowReading

Jamiroquai when Jamiro vewwy sad

@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social is the best Bluesky account I have followed this year. You'll follow him too if you know what's good for you.

“The conductor John Andrews seems to have an unerring touch when approaching music which is little known, having been little performed. Samantha Ege is a most persuasive soloist, and she makes light of the formidable technical difficulties. All those involved are to be congratulated” 😍🎁

I'm making a list I'm checking it twice I'm gonna recall What's naughty and nice Santa Symphonist's coming to town I whittled down 200+ symphony & orchestral #NewReleases I listened to this year to a shortlist of 25. I'm now bingeing them to choose my Top 10 #SymphonistsChoice2025. Me right now ⬇️

I'm making a list I'm checking it twice I'm gonna recall What's naughty and nice Santa Symphonist's coming to town I whittled down 200+ symphony & orchestral #NewReleases I listened to this year to a shortlist of 25. I'm now bingeing them to choose my Top 10 #SymphonistsChoice2025. Me right now ⬇️

Spooner's career as a continuity announcer was short-lived

2026 starts with an amazing opportunity! 🎶 Launching on 5 January, join Choir of the Earth & The Gesualdo Six to learn William Byrd’s Mass For Five Voices with one of the world’s leading Renaissance vocal ensembles: choiroftheearth.com/courses/byrd... Director, Owain Park has a message for us!✨

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Erik Satie predicts:

You Gotta Be Fuckin’ Kidding, Charlie Brown

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

Please be real

Ok, from today it's acceptable to play Christmas music. #NewReleases2025 #261 #NowListening

they should make classical music fun and by fun i mean hardcore drugs and violence you know something for the ladies

Ok, from today it's acceptable to play Christmas music. #NewReleases2025 #261 #NowListening

Th burger place we're having an early dinner in is playing Yellow Magic Orchestra 👍

#AdventInFemDur Tür 19 🎄 Dora Pejačević (1885–1923) – vizekönigliche Prinzessin, die in ihrer kroatischen Heimat jedes Kind kennt & so bekannt ist wie Mozart, darüber hinaus erst durch einen deutschen Dokufilm quasi aus dem 🕯️ mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de/receive/mugi... 🎁 www.youtube.com/watch?v=940d...

There is always something pleasingly ghostly about encountering a heron, as if they are constantly passing surreptitiously between dimensions and we aren't officially supposed to see them.

Happy #NewReleaseFriday! Time flies, and before we know it another year is almost gone. If you want more for Christmas than Mariah Carey, Wham or Shakin' Stevens, then try my symphony & orchestral #NewReleases playlist, updated every Friday. ▶️ spoti.fi/400asdn

Fame at last!

My top five favourite words to pronounce like they’re Greek philosophers…   5. Monocles 4. Bicycles 3. Popsicles 2. Obstacles 1. Testicles

I'm now officially ON HOLIDAY for the rest of 2025!

#AdventInFemDur Tür 18 🎄 Amy Beach (1867–1944) – ihre "Gaelische Sinfonie" war die erste einer Frau auf dem gesamtamerikanischen Kontinent, die als Kind 'Luftklavier' spielen musste (& konnte), weil es nicht ans Klavier durfte. 🕯️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Beach 🎁 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmLU...

Happy Beethoven's baptismal day to all those who don't celebrate his birthday because we're not certain when it is.

Yesterday I listened to Felix Weingartner's orchestration of the Hammerklavier sonata. Yesterday was probably Beethoven's birthday. Transcribing Op. 106 for orchestra was definitely a bad idea. #NewReleases2025 #258

Happy Beethoven's baptismal day to all those who don't celebrate his birthday because we're not certain when it is.

Sabine Meyer gave her final concert last night in Bern, closing an international career that reshaped the clarinet’s place on the concert stage. Read more at moto-perpetuo.com/sabine-meyer...

Imagine if cities demanded the same of car manufacturers.

People with December 16 birthdays would make a great dinner party: Jane Austen, Noel Coward, George Santayana, Arthur C. Clarke, Margaret Mead, Quentin Blake With Beethoven playing the piano. Speak up, everyone!