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Writer, critic, biographer of Strauss, likes decadent French, German and Italian literature, can sometimes be found slouching around in leather.
East Sussex, by the sea
Joined August 2011
My @GramophoneMag Collection piece on Debussy's Le martyre de Saint Sébastien is now out in the September issue. I just love this work, and have wanted to write about it for ages, so it's been a total joy and a real privilege to do so.
gramophone.co.uk
Debussy’s sensuously beautiful music for D’Annunzio’s ambivalent mystery play has been well served on recordings. Tim Ashley chooses his favourite from among the many available versions
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RIP Terence Stamp. A beautiful man and a wonderful actor, unforgettable in so many films. Loved him above all in Pasolini's Theorem: here's the trailer.
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RT @DrDavidVernon: My review of Rie Qudan’s prize-winning novel Sympathy Tower Tokyo is in today’s Spectator. No secret that I absolutely….
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Rafael Kubelík died #OnThisDay in 1996. So here is his performance of Jenufa from Munich in 1971. I've posted it before, but it's one of the great things so it's time to hear it again. Astrid Varnay is simply astonishing as Kostelnicka.
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RT @DrDavidVernon: @TimAshAsh @GramophoneMag Wonderful, beautifully written piece about this astounding score, Tim: thank you. It's so exqu….
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RT @dennistmc: "I need solitude. I need space. I need air. I need the empty fields round me, and my legs pounding along roads, and sleep, a….
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Shostakovich died #OnThisDay fifty years ago. So here's his Sixth, my favourite of his symphonies, with Rudolf Barshai conducting the WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley was born #OnThisDay in 1792. So here is Irmgard Seefried singing Il Tramonto, Respighi's great 1918 setting of The Sunset, with the Lucerne Festival Strings and Rudolf Baumgartner.
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Wounded Angels: Glyndebourne revives Damiano Michieletto's 2021 staging of Kát'a Kabanová. Frankly, it doesn't do it for me as theatre, but it's wonderfully well sung.
theguardian.com
Robin Ticciati conducts the London Philharmonic in this finely sung but inconsistent revival of Damiano Michieletto’s 2021 production
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Suddenly there appears to be a monsoon going on on the South coast . 🌧️.
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Liszt died in Bayreuth #OnThisDay in 1886. So here's a film Louis Kentnter playing the second (Italian) book of Années de pèlerinage at a recital in London in the 1960s. This is just utterly wonderful.
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Bach died #OnThisDay in 1750. Kirsten Flagstad sings Erbarme dich, mein Gott from the St Matthew Passion with the Philharmonia and Walyer Susskind in 1950.
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Vivaldi died #OnThisDay in 1741. Sara Mingardo sings Mentre dormi, Amor fomenti from L'Olimpiade with Concerto Italiano and Rinaldo Alessandrini.
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RT @Nash_Ensemble: We are deeply sad to announce the death of our beloved Artistic Director Amelia Freedman. She had been ill for some time….
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Really sad that Tom Lehrer has died aged 97. We have lost a genius. RIP great man.
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