Why Haydn Is Best ep.1 has arrived! And we start with his obscurissimus obscurissimorum - the 77th symphony. Has anyone actually ever heard it? Well, finally you have a reason to. shows.acast.com/why-haydn-is... via @acast podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1... on.soundcloud.com/FeOx9PGhp9Jb...

Introductory episode of my new podcast about Haydn's symphonies is now up. Don't all rush at once. Why Haydn Is Best shows.acast.com/why-haydn-is... via @acast on.soundcloud.com/DqtGgf2X5qw9...

One of my favourite things is people in fancy dress looking furious

POTOm 033. We're 33er than Jesus right now. Sketches incl. Alan Sugar's toilet endorsement, Coffee-tee-fee & the Granosphere. Chat topics incl. courtroom artwork in the Take Hart gallery + the DFS man & his partner Lettice Cootes-Campbell. Evryone's talkin about em! www.patreon.com/TheTrapComed...

Today's commute, a.m.: Haydn - The Creation Part 3; Handel - Water Music nos.1-3. Today's commute, p.m.: Handel - Water Music no.4-end; Handel - Music for the Royal Fireworks.

Today's commute, a.m.: Haydn - The Creation (not Die Schöpfung) Part 1 Today's commute, p.m.: Haydn - The Creation Part 2.

Today's commute, a.m.: Haydn - Symphony no.79. Today's commute, p.m.: Haydn - Symphony no.80. Don't worry, no essay today, just to say that no.79 ("seldom was Haydn less inspired" - Robbins Landon, Haydn's CHAMPION) I found to be as inspired as ever - the 1st movement's development section ...

Today's commute, a.m.: Haydn - Symphony no.77. Today's commute, p.m.: Haydn - Symphony no.78 (i and iv twice). WARNING: Another Haydn panegyric coming up So these two symphonies are from what is considered Haydn's least interesting period (post-Sturm und Drang, pre-Paris & London)...

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Just the lentils, please

Today's commute, a.m.: Haydn - L’Incontro Improvviso Act 2 nos.29-39; Act 3 nos.40-43. Today's commute, p.m.: : Haydn - L’Incontro Improvviso Act 3 nos.44-end + 3 cracking insertion arias & an insertion trio that if it were the finale of a symphony would be regarded as one of his very greatest.

Today's commute, a.m.: Haydn - L’Incontro Improvviso Act 1 nos. 1 - 10. Today's commute, p.m.: : Haydn - L’Incontro Improvviso Act 1 nos. 11 - 22; Act 2 nos.23-28. There is so much great music in this opera, and yet it only seems to have been performed about 5 or 6 times... EVER.

Yesterday's commute, a.m.+p.m.: Haydn - Die Schöpfung Part 1, Part 2 (nos. 14-22) Today's commute, a.m.+p.m.: Haydn - Die Schöpfung Part 2 (no.23-end), Part 3. Related book bonus (both days): Milton - Paradise Lost.

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Today's commute, a.m.: Handel - Water Music Suite in D-G nos. 4-10, Music for the Royal Fireworks. Today's commute, p.m.: Haydn - Symphony no.76.

Today's commute, a.m.: Grainger - Danny Deever, Londonderry Air, $1.5 a Day, Molly on the Shore; Handel - Water Music Suite in F nos. 1-3. Today's commute, p.m.: Handel - Water Music Suite in F nos. 4-9; Water Music Suite in D-G nos. 1-3.

New! OOH, YOU ARE AWFUL (1972) pod.link/1569929507 After conman Charlie Tully's partner is killed he discovers a Swiss bank account number has been tattooed on four women's bums. Can he find them before a gang bumps him off? Cinema gold with guests @jlimb.bsky.social and @paullitchfield.bsky.social

Dear Nobber ep.7 out now; the fifth-of-a-feature-length season finale! Not tried anything quite like this before, but I'm quite chuffed with the results... shows.acast.com/dear-nobber via @acast feeds.acast.com/public/shows... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d... soundcloud.com/jlimb-1

LATE NEWS Last Friday's commute, a.m.: Handel - Acis and Galatea Act II, no.8 - end Last Friday's commute, p.m.: Grainger - assorted choral/folk-based pieces

Today's commute, a.m.: Handel - Acis and Galatea Act I, nos.1-10 Today's commute, p.m.: Handel - Acis and Galatea Act I, nos.11-12; Act II, nos.1-7

I'm not sure who I'm aimed at

Can't wait for s02.e01...

Today's commute, a.m.: Fauré - Piano Quintet 1; 2: i. Today's commute, p.m.: Fauré - Piano Quintet 2: ii,iii,iv. (different recording to March 19th) Still find these works very elusive.

Today's commute, a.m.: Grainger - The Warriors; Fauré - Piano Quartet 2: i. Today's commute, p.m.: Fauré - Piano Quartet 2: ii,iii,iv. (different recording to March 12th)

Dear Nobber eps. 3 & 4 now available! You can avail them here: shows.acast.com/dear-nobber via @acast feeds.acast.com/public/shows... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d... soundcloud.com/jlimb-1

Yesterday's commute, a.m.+p.m.: Gesualdo - Madrigals Book 1 (La Compagnia del Madrigale) Today's commute, a.m.+p.m.: Gesualdo - Madrigals Book 2 (Delitiæ Musicæ)

Dear Nobber episode one heaves into view... shows.acast.com/dear-nobber feeds.acast.com/public/shows... soundcloud.com/jlimb-1/dear...

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I'm more of a through a glass half lightly kinda guy

NEW POTOm! Chat topics include: Smash, David Icke, shitting on the moon. Sketch topics include: 17 Magpies, Charles I's dirty execution, Ocean's 56. It could easily be vice versa, tbh. www.patreon.com/posts/potom-...

I tweeted this over 8 years ago. Of course I've reconsidered my words since then... These days I would add "anyone who doesn't like Elgar: I will never respect your opinion about ANYTHING"

Dreamt this joke: Miss Michael Learned complains of being "man-handled"

Sneak preview of POTOm 032 youtu.be/uXk4-GB_JMQ patreon.com/c/TheTrapComedy

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Today's commute, a.m.: Finzi - For St.Cecilia; Magnificat. Today's commute, p.m.: Finzi - Romance op.11; Earth and Air and Rain.

Today's commute, a.m.: Finzi - In terra pax. 𝘍𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘺 Today's commute, p.m.: Finzi - Dies natalis.

Great work. Apparently he also came up with the note orchestras tune to.

What's the worst UI? 1. "fucking" iTunes 2. "stupid fucking" YouTube 3. "fuck off" Instagram 4. "SHUT THE FUCK UP" Alexa

Today's commute, a.m.: Peter Racine Fricker - Symphony 1. Today's commute, p.m.: Peter Racine Fricker - Symphony 2.

Today's commute, a.m.: Fauré - Piano Quintet 1. Today's commute, p.m.: Fauré - Piano Quintet 2.

CHIFFCHAFF. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. CHIFFCHAFF.

Today's commute, a.m.: Elgar - Dream of Gerontius: from start up to where they first start chuntering about "Praise to the Holiest". Today's commute, p.m.: Elgar - Dream of Gerontius: from where they really start wanging on about "Praise to the Holiest" to the end. (Hickox. 27/2's was Barenboim)

Today's commute, a.m.: Howard Ferguson - Partita op.5a Today's commute, p.m.: Howard Ferguson - The Dream of the Rood. 𝘍𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘶𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘣𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘴: Fauré: Piano Quartet 1 (different recording to Feb 13)

Yesterday's bonus commute, a.m.: Fauré - Piano Quartet 2: i, ii,iii. Yesterday's bonus commute, p.m.: Fauré - Piano Quartet 2: iv; Howard Ferguson - Two Ballads op.1.

Nope, still never wondered if my reviews are getting noticed.

Rewatched 'The Tall Guy' the other day. In retrospect, it now seems tenuous of Kate Lemon to interpret Dexter's continual pausing before saying someone's name as proof that he'd been having an affair given that he was portrayed by JEFF FUCKING GOLDBLUM

Looking forward to the Foundation Christmas episode

Today's commute, a.m.: Elgar - Symphony 1*: i, ii, iii. Today's commute, p.m.: Elgar - Symphony 1*: iv; Howard Ferguson - Overture for an Occasion. *Barenboim/Staatskapelle. Stunning

Also, I dreamt there was a van selling falafels on plates with a localised gravitational field at right angles to the Earth's one; if you dropped your falafel on the ground everyone jeered. I dropped mine.