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Mine too! Such a good touch. Thank you for adding that
These original sketches are currently on display at the Royal College of Music Museum, as part of a cabinet I co-curated with @sarahinthepark.bsky.social
Avril Coleridge-Taylor on the radio! 🥳
Great to hear @leahbroad.bsky.social discussing Coleridge-Taylor's move to South Africa and the historic first flight of the Comet jet airliner, as well as her subsequent Comet Prelude!
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GOOD MORNING TO THIS NEW DISC! Insanely beautiful and fresh music from Sarah Kirkland Snider.
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Absolute shocker of a rights grab - academics may want to push back hard
Our Composer of the Week is the pioneering Amy Beach. Donald Macleod explores the life & music of one of the most distinctive American musicians of the early C20th. Each weekday 4pm @BBCRadio3 Produced by Steven Rajam & Sam Phillips #classicalmusic www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
There’s a brilliant new recording of an earlier version of the Quartet by the London Chamber Ensemble. Howells let revising the work for different reasons (he once left the MS on a train). It’s really interesting to compare the different versions!
The Mel Bonis disc is also great! So much fantastic French music has being rediscovered atm
Not on YouTube, but Elsa Barraine's 'Les Tzgaines' was a new discovery over the weekend, and it has been on REPEAT. Very excited for the whole album to come out soon!
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Coming in hard is this GEM from Charles Koechlin. I've recently spent a lot of time getting to know Koechlin's music and boy oh boy are we sleeping on all this.
Originally for voice and piano, the later orchestration is gorgeous.
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A super-thread of all the music I've (re)discovered in 2026!
Because it's always good to start these things mid-February...
'How dare people want to eat food that is natural and better for them, their community, and the planet!!!'
Brilliant talk from @leahbroad.bsky.social all about Avril Coleridge-Taylor, Women's music-making in WWII, and issues in biography. All hosted by the Boulanger Initiative!
kipper the cartoon dog, who has orange fur, brown ears, and kind eyes
We did Snoopy, we did Gromit, which cartoon dog do we raise from the ranks next? I propose this diva
I literally only realised last Christmas watching Muppet Christmas Carol that the Swedish Chef has human hands and now I can't stop focusing on it
Give it up for your trillion dollar hype bubble, ladies & gentlemen!
🥳🥳🥳 4.5 stars for Avril Coleridge-Taylor's Piano Concerto and Orchestral Works
@jkaconductor.bsky.social @leahbroad.bsky.social
And it all happened INSANELY quickly?! Always a shame when a series basically serves setting up the next one…
New Substack, for anyone wanting to get to know the music and life of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor!
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Catherine O’Hara didn’t steal scenes she just showed up and ownership automatically defaulted to her
I read this, and I am freshly reminded that one of the most important insights in humanism is that this our one and only life.
"it’s slow, it sounds serious, so it can be filled with whatever grandiloquent storytelling we like. The music can take it because it’s just earnest enough to suggest its own emotional orbit, yet sufficiently denuded of content that it never insists on dictating its own expressive terms."
Let's! Go!!!
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Cover Art for Overtures from the British Isles, Volume 3. BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Rumon Gamba. Chandos CHAN20351. The cover shows a photograph of Whitby Abbey. "Rumon Gamba directs the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra on the third instalment of his exploration of Overtures from the British Isles. As in the case of the previous volumes, the recorded repertoire is rarely played, and the album includes three world premiere recordings. All the works were composed in a period of eleven years, between 1938 and 1949, against the background of the horrific world events of that era. Presenting an eclectic mix of musical styles, the album, like its predecessors, sheds light on some wonderful discoveries, passionately and enthusiastically performed by orchestra and conductor." https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9833462--overtures-from-the-british-isles-vol-3
Happy #NewReleaseFriday! Only one release this week, but as it's the latest volume of an outstanding and valuable series I can hardly complain. Three premiere recordings among a host of long-neglected music just waiting to be rediscovered.
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Firearm safety is my passion
"Hearing all her orchestral works on one sweep is an enjoyable experience...The BBC Philharmonic and John Andrews are on excellent form and the whole project has been brought together with great care by Ege, Andrews and @leahbroad.bsky.social. A Valuable Achievement" ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (BBC Music Magazine)
The Royal College of Music just appointed Vasily Petrenko as an International Visiting Artist in conducting, so what better time to revisit his interview with @vanmusicmag.bsky.social than now...
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May be a meme of text that says 'Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewic Thanks for the free 7-day trial of 2026 I'd like to unsubscribe from whatever the hel this is'
Get involved! Listening to a composer's entire catalogue is hoenstly one of the msot fascinating endeavours