Peter Quantrill
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Mahler 9, LSO, Rattle's farewell as Music Director. Pole position. Nowhere I'd rather be than right here, right now.
#BBCProms
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Mahler 6 with Rattle has been in my life for almost 35 years, since the EMI recording. Then a 1995 Prom with the CBSO, and more recently with the BPO and LSO. Well, here we are again. BRSO this time. Life journeys.
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@JohannaTC
@TheTimesBooks
I am confident that, whatever barriers are put in their way, children will continue to discover in books things that adults think they shouldn't.
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Let's face it, classical music Twitter, we're all the guy in the suit.
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Another fine Bruckner orchestra! Time for No.4: Bavarian Radio SO, Rattle.
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@RevRichardColes
@ScottishPower
I have found
@OctopusEnergy
to be unfailingly courteous, and the customer service phone number yields a real and polite person at the other end.
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Another treat. Only my second live Paradise & the Peri. Part 2 is one long purple patch, Schumann never equalled it again.
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@wmarybeard
Gosh, what a moment. You were formative for me, Mary (X course 94-5), in expanding ideas of Classics past, present and future. I knew at the time those seminars were a privilege. It didn't stop them being fun, esp arguing the toss with yr Newnham protegees!
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Rhinegold
@E_N_O
didn't disappoint. Irresistible and straightforward storytelling, as fabulously ambiguous as Wagner's score. I must see it again.
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@CSMFHT
This is almost as funny as the joke itself. Always a relief to reach the edge where AI falls off a cliff.
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@holysmoke
Thanks for the tip. You're right, in your upside-down way: she's terrific, well worth following.
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The great Berlin Philharmonic, and Ma vlast. After stupendous Schumann from Vikingur Olafsson.
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2023 is
#Ligeti
year - the centenary of his birth - and his crazy and intense music opened the world of new music to me as a teenager. Here's my intro to his life and music for
@HiFiNewsmag
.
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A Mahler 8 moment, thanks to the
@RPOonline
today at the RAH: sometimes a moment in a musical performance is more meaningful and memorable than the whole event or even the piece itself. 🧵/1
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Bayan Northcott wrote as piercingly about music as anyone in English. I have paid a small tribute in his memory
@GramophoneMag
.
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The music world is as full of egos as any other, of course. But it’s also full of collegiality and fellow feeling. In front of me, today, I saw three singers enjoy the success of their colleague, and it made a moment of transcendence no less than Mahler does in the 8th. 🧵/ends
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Here's a nice gesture. Though the Philharmonie itself is closed, the BPO and Rattle will play Bartók and Berio tonight to an empty hall, broadcast *free* by the Digital Concert Hall, repeated over the next two days.
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The tradition of drumming up publicity for the Last Night of the Proms by having the conductor suggest now's the time to freshen it up a bit is almost as old as the event itself.
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There's nothing quite like a big Morton
#Feldman
piece to recalibrate the mind and ear. What a treat to hear the UK prem of Violin and String Qt (1985!) done by Apartment House & organised by Music We'd Like To Hear - one of London's most illuminating concert series.
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Because the Enescu Festival is crackers, and so am I, I've been in Bucharest for four hours and this is my second concert. Cameron Carpenter, Bach recital. Ateneul Roman, astonishing venue.
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Would you like to know why freeports are a terrible idea? How so-called Special Economic Zones exploit our labour? What a hollowed-out, Amazonified economy looks like? Here's a sad tale from James Meek
@LRB
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Glagolitic - what happens when you get blind drunk on Czech lager.
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Outstanding LPO concert tonight. Jonathan Biss so lucid and focused in Beethoven PC2. Then Karina Canellakis renewed all my teenage love for Shostakovich 8.
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All of human life, in C major: ★★★★★ Diabelli Variations and
#Haydn
from Paul Lewis
@wigmore_hall
- my review
@theartsdesk
here:
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@Furedibyte
@TeleMusicNews
Gosh and there was me thinking a festival of 75 concerts is a celebration of... music.
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You might not think you want this, but you do: i of Mahler 3, arr for and played (sensationally well) by the US Marine Band. Takes the piece straight back to the Iglau/Jihlava of Mahler's childhood.
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*outstanding* Eroica from Karabits and Bournemouth SO. Can't think of a finer one I've heard in the flesh. Rather lays down the gauntlet for the other bands
@BarbicanCentre
#BeethovenWeekender
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Is anyone else here being increasingly spammed with posts that list their @ handle along with a string of random others?
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'La joie parfaite' - my ***** review of Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise in Bucharest
@bachtrack
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@hannahrosewoods
'In the USSR' - clearly Stanley's grasp of history is as self-serving as his son's.
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Because I prefer not to remember people in a Mahler 9 sort of way, and somehow saying goodbye like that doesn't tally with his humanist outlook. The filming shows how he did indeed do everything with the eyes. RIP Haitink.
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#TheresaMay
now channelling
#LeagueOfGentlemen
. 'A local country for local people. There's nothing for you here'.
#CPC16
#CitizenOfTheWorld
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@theanalyst
Why should wickets be the exclusive achievement of the bowler? It's a bad, cheap, somehow shameful way for a wkt to fall. The responsibility for that lies with one person, and it’s not the bowler.
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@LeeAndersonMP_
If we disagree with Miriam Cates about anything from sex education to tax policy, does that mean we're saying it how it isn't? If we, too, stand our ground on our convictions, do we meet with your approval?
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@LeeAndersonMP_
Is it that you object to banking staff holding (reasonable) opinions? Or to them sharing those opinions online? Should employees in other sectors be prohibited from holding, or sharing, opinions? Nurses, teachers, lawyers?
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@ianpacemain
@HelenRichenda
@RoyalAlbertHall
@rpoonline
That's a curious perspective to me. Large symphonic choruses (of the kind demanded by Mahler, Elgar etc) have always been amateur by organisation, and composers wrote for them accordingly.
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This was an exceptional Eroica in the hall. The thing in itself. Oramo works the strings so hard (2nd vlns!) for maximum articulation, and the solo winds have such strong personalities.
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Spurs have won the Champions league semi in literally the last minute, I've seen Rattle do a super Mahler 5 and the barman has basically given me free wine. So I'm fine, thanks.
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This week has been spent reading about Marie Pleyel. What a woman! Here she is all Clara-like. But she knocks Clara into a cocked hat.
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Buttonholes and hankies at the ready: Elgar and Tippett at the Proms in memory of Sir Andrew Davis. My ★★★★★ review
@bachtrack
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I am sad to share news that Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs has died, aged 58. Ben suffered much, in his health and for his work. That work centred on Bruckner, as an editor, scholar and performer, but he was a man of parts. And he was a kind and gentle soul.
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Epic symphonies and sonic slagheaps - my **** review of 'Voices from the East'
@bachtrack
, featuring the heroic Bournemouth SO and Kirill Karabits
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New issue of
@GramophoneMag
with my perspective on
#ErikSatie
#Satie150
: more than white food and velvet suits.
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@operamagazine
@jessicaduchen
Oh! Clark seemed ageless. Fierce intelligence, twinkling good humour and generosity of spirit are very rarely encountered in one person. And there was so much more to his singing than Mime, but what a Mime he was!
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My inordinate fondness for Tchaik 2 would probably survive calling it his 'Ukrainian' Symphony from now on. I guess we're starting to understand why Ukrainians aren't wild about being known as from 'Little Russia'.
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Sheku KM did an amazing job projecting Shost CC1 into the cavernous Sala Palatului. And the Hungarian National PO played Dances of Galanta like they were singing it. Enescu 2 to come!
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Enescu is such an all-encompassing figure, yet so little known outside Romania, that it was a pleasure to discuss him with
@CristiMacelaru
, director
@Enescu_Festival
, and look forward to the 2024 Competition
@bachtrack
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I am hearing the usual nonsense that now the
#Ashes
are lost England will be able to play with ‘more freedom’. BAN compiled 458 v NZ with discipline and technique, not 'freedom'. This is the kind of magical thinking that told us we need to ‘believe in’ Brexit.
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@RobBowness
@MahanEsfahani
I sometimes wonder who belongs to this much-derided elite. I follow a lot of classical accounts and I can't find any evidence of them.
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I love this. Having listened six times on the spin I still love it. It's the modulation at 0'37 that really gets me but then I am a creature of simple pleasures.
Harpist Feuerzauber! Six harps in the final minutes of Die Walküre. From Facebook page of
@MetOpera
principal harp
@EmmanuelCeysson
(hope ok to share). To my mind this completely exonerates Facebook as a platform
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@annalapwood
@RoyalAlbertHall
In fact you *can* hear it if you stand further back, esp out by the front (Door 6) or the back (Door 12), because the sound comes out of the roof.
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Gramophone nirvana. Yes, I visited *the world's largest collection of gramophones*. And, naturally, wrote about it
@GramophoneMag
#PyeongChang2018
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@NotationIsGreat
Do you know the page-by-page illustration of the First Sonata's score with complementary paintings by the artist Sevek? I wrote a bit about it here:
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My first visit to the Elbphilharmonie. Messiaen's Saint François d’Assise (of course)
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Alongside Wagner – and this is what made the moment – her three colleagues were willing her on, almost as engaged with the singing as she was herself. Sarah Wegener,
@jjohnstonmezzo
,
@ClaudiaHuckle
. All having done their own part to lift the performance to another level. 🧵/5
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@sophygurl
@deannatwit
@mgilles_2000
@MNRiverOtter
@Cassandraglynn
@1Biotensegrity
I'm with you. But nothing I found resolved my confusion until a straightforward explanation from
@MomAshour
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#Haitink
The eyes are everything - my ★★★★★ review
@theartsdesk
of John Bridcut's wonderfully musical retrospective over the life and career of Bernard Haitink:
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The voting so far only goes to show that, as ever, we get the politicians we deserve.
The rules on masks in shops and on public transport will be tightened, Boris Johnson has said. Will you wear a mask again?
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Mozart of my nightmares but Bruckner 3 of my dreams. On Cloud Nine after
#Thielemann
Staatskapelle Dresden at
#BBCProms
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75+ Missa solemnis recordings = labour of love.
Suitcase of Polish music
@PWMedition
= an education.
Slipping new Padilla
@delphianrecords
& Bing Crosby
@EloqClassics
into a What Next on the Xmas Oratorio = serious fun.
We are delighted to introduce the December 2020 issue of Gramophone. Featuring: The Art of Operetta; The finest Beethoven Missa solemnis recordings; Critics’ Choice: our reviewers’ picks of 2020; Christmas music: a festive feast of new albums:
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@musicologyman
@ianpacemain
What did Monteverdi and his patrons think Orfeo was? Many things but 'fundamentally entertainment' seems to fit. Before that, most music was music to pray by, which is the spiritual equivalent. If there's a switch in fundamental intent, it's a Romantic project.
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Pops programme - Dvorak 9 etc - but you don't see The Consecration of the House in a month of Sundays. Super tight playing from the Tonhalle Zurich.
#BBCProms
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I had a lot of fun interviewing Currentzis. He talked about being beaten up on the set of 'Dau' as well as serious hi-fi nerdery (and Beethoven) but a lot fell on the cutting-room floor. Maybe I'll pick it up in a sequel one day!
The March 2020 issue Gramophone features revealing interviews with conductors Teodor Currentzis and Michael Tilson Thomas and, of course, the world's best classical music reviews...
Read more here >
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From 1983, Clive James on Prince Andrew 'with his lonely chopper' - trust
@LRB
to deliver the coup de grace...
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Frost's resignation is your periodic unlooked-for reminder that however cruel and immoral this govt gets, there are Conservative politicians for whom it isn't nearly cruel or immoral enough.
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