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Good morning Flowers!
Starting Friday with refined music by
Jean-Marie Leclair: Concerto in E minor for Violin, Strings & B.c Op.10 No.5
https://youtu.be/sNe4nNUyaXE
#music #ClassicalMusic #BarockMusic
Exaudi: Pocket Universe album review – virtuoso vocals with a joyfully bonkers bent
By Erica Jeal
Exaudi/Weeks(NMC)Four substantial, eclectic works written for James Weeks’ ensemble are brought together here, encompassing swooping folk phrasing, delicate harmonising and exuberant stylistic skill
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/sep/18/pocket-universe-album-review-exaudi-weeks
#Classicalmusic #Music #Culture #Choralmusic #TheGuardian #EricaJeal
YouTube star Ms Rachel to match Macklemore’s $1m Palestine aid donation
By Uwa Ede-Osifo
Educator talks of ‘moral obligation’ and urges ‘every wealthy white celebrity’ to make similar donation
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/sep/17/ms-rachel-macklemore-palestine-donation
#Culture #Palestine #USnews #Worldnews #MiddleEastandnorthAfrica #Celebrity #Macklemore #Music #Lifeandstyle #TheGuardian #UwaEdeOsifo
I admit I started watching this video because an electronic version of Purcell's "Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary" opens "A Clockwork Orange," one of Stanley Kubrick's greatest, if most disturbing, films. I kept watching because the piece is so beautiful. This is a lovely performance. #Music #England #ClassicalMusic #Film #Cinema #Movies #Culture #Entertainment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EruGzQnG2w&list=RD8EruGzQnG2w&start_radio=1
Bill Bailey on music, mischief and touring Australia
By Ria Andriani
Bill Bailey talks about what makes Australia special, making music across language barriers, midnight rehearsals and preparing for a typewriter solo, jammed keys and all.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-18/bill-bailey-on-music-mischief-and-touring-australia/107154298
Opus13: Mendelssohn and Grieg album review – an assured and distinctive debut
By Erica Jeal
Opus13(Alpha Classics)The young quartet – winners of the Wigmore Hall String Quartet competition – continue to impress in a recording pairing Mendelssohn and Grieg
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/sep/17/mendelssohn-and-grieg-album-review-opus13
It’s going to be a blast: why 100 tubas are heading for a garden in Haddington
By John Harris
Faced with a new concert venue – a vast and beautiful walled garden – John Harris and the Lammermuir festival had to decide how to fill it with sound. Anthony Braxton’s colossal composition was the irresistible solution.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/sep/17/100-tuba-players-lammermuir-festival-anthony-braxton
#Classicalmusic #Culture #Jazz #Music #Festivals #Experimentalmusic #Musicfestivals #Scotland #TheGuardian #JohnHarris
Good morning Faes!
Have agreat Thursday!
Starting with magnificent music by
Christoph Schaffrath: Ouverture in D minor for Strings & B.c
https://youtu.be/_74R2lswlzE
#music #ClassicalMusic #BarockMusic
#JeudiAutoEdition Retrouvez ma #transcription pour #trio à #cordes du Clavier bien tempéré de Jean-Sébastien #Bach ➡️ https://nicolashussein.fr/produit/jean-sebastien-bach-le-clavier-bien-tempere-extraits/
#violon #alto #violoncelle #préludes #fugues #musique #musiqueClassique #classicalMusic #music #myWork #partition
Disponible sur Amazon, The Book Edition ou Planète Partitions 😍🎶🎻
The secret of Mozart’s genius unlocked – has a teenager succeeded where generations of musicologists have failed?
By Tom Service
US student Linus Chen-Plotkin has analysed music by four canonical composers looking for patterns. Turns out Mozart’s music moves in the least predictable way
#Classicalmusic #Music #Culture #WolfgangAmadeusMozart #TheGuardian #TomService
Alcina review – Handel’s opera of sex and sorcery comes alive in vivid staging
By Erica Jeal
Royal Opera House, LondonThis revival of Richard Jones and Antony McDonald’s 2022 staging has kept most of its excellent original cast Lisette Oropesa is imperious and gleaming as the enchantress Alcina
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/sep/16/handel-alcina-review-royal-opera-house-london
#Opera #Classicalmusic #Music #Culture #RoyalOperaHouse #TheGuardian #EricaJeal
Mishka Rushdie Momen review – unforced elegance and plenty of fireworks
By Clive Paget
Wigmore Hall, LondonA programme based around works by French baroque composers, played on a concert grand, made for an unusual but thoughtful and beautifully played recital
#Classicalmusic #Culture #Music #WigmoreHall #TheGuardian #ClivePaget
Golden Boy review – Great Depression boxing melodrama swings between hope and despair
By Chris Wiegand
Almeida theatre, London Josh O’Connor makes a powerful return to the stage as a New York violinist driven by dire straits to risk everything in the ring
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/sep/16/golden-boy-review-almeida-theatre-london-josh-oconnor
#Theatre #Almeidatheatre #Boxing #Classicalmusic #JoshOConnor #Culture #Music #Sport #Stage #TheGuardian #ChrisWiegand
Cette semaine, à l'occasion du #MercrediPromo, je vous invite à (re)découvrir ma #transcription de "Songe" de Bernard Fleurette pour #alto et #piano (1er cycle). Plus d'infos : https://nicolashussein.fr/produit/bernard-fleurette-songe-pour-alto-et-piano/ (disponible dans la plupart des librairies musicales) 😍🎶🎻🎹
#myWork #partition #musique #musiqueClassique #classicalMusic #music
Music education is powerful, yet its provision is frail | Letters
By Guardian Staff
Elizabeth Williams and Luke Madams respond to an article by Robert Ames in which he argues that doors are closing for working-class musicians
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/sep/15/music-education-is-powerful-yet-its-provision-is-frail
#Music #Music #Classicalmusic #Culture #Education #Wales #Money #UKnews #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff
The lion, the witch and the warblers: behind the scenes of Handel’s Alcina at the RBO – in pictures
By Tristram Kenton
The colourful and larger-than-life staging of the opera about an enchantress who transforms her lovers into beasts returns to the Royal Opera stage this week. We went behind the scenes on the final day of rehearsalsAll photos: Tristram Kenton
#Opera #Classicalmusic #RoyalOperaHouse #Culture #Music #GeorgeFridericHandel #TheGuardian #TristramKenton
[#rediffusion] Laissez-vous entraîner par cette #valse entêtante, envoûtante... Omar #Yagoubi, Valse de la Sensée (extrait) par le #trio Isnino #violon #alto #violoncelle https://makertube.net/w/bHudbx7jYdhd6aNwkDeVV9 Merci d'avance pour vos vues / likes / abonnements / partages 😍🙏🎶🎻 #myWork #musique #musiqueClassique #classicalMusic #music #newMusic @music
#Oxford #music people: come along and #PlayForFun with #Cowley #orchestra #tomorrow! No auditions, no performances, no commitment required. https://cowleyorchestra.weebly.com/dates.html All #OrchestralInstruments welcome. #violin #viola #cello #DoubleBass #flute #clarinet #oboe #bassoon #trumpet #cornet #horn #trombone #tuba why not try #conducting taking turns with others? Also, feel free to suggest a piece from our vast #MusicLibrary (>350 sets). #JoinIn #PlaySomeMusic #ClassicalMusic #Baroque thru to #FilmMusic
Good morning Flowers!
Starting today with fantastic music by Johann Gottlieb Graun: Concerto in D minor for Violin, Strings & B.c GraunWV C:XIII:75
https://youtu.be/L2hMSl6u4IM
#music #ClassicalMusic #BarockMusic
I'm going to post the full text of #Macklemore's response to his cancellation from #EdSheeran's tour
I'm not going to editorialize. I'm not going to provide context- you can search the news
I think it's important because he doesn't get angry. He doesn't burn bridges
And he doesn't back down from a clear moral stance. He's generous and even-handed
Effective communication on an important topic
https://www.instagram.com/p/DdRdsy0m2HK/
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BLAHBYLON'S MUSIC SELECTIONS
#BlahbylonsMusicSelections #Music #80sMusic
Young people will never understand how important this song was to the 80s.
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeMFqkcPYcg&list=RDqeMFqkcPYcg&start_radio=1
Good morning, Faeries!
A new Monday, a new week, hope you all had a great weekend & have a good start.
Don't let them drag you down. Here is some uplifting music by J.D.Heinichen: Concerto in D major for Flute, Oboe, Theorbo, Violin, Cello, Strings & B.c S.226
https://youtu.be/zJxTFUwRC9o
#music #ClassicalMusic #BarockMusic
Last Night of the Proms review – musical chaos ensues in near four-hour finale
By Alexandra Coghlan
Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe evening features everything from a rendition of an inscrutable Samuel Barber concerto to a celebration of Dolly Parton, but the real star is tartan-clad tenor Nicky Spence
#Proms2026 #Classicalmusic #Culture #Music #TheGuardian #AlexandraCoghlan
Good morning FLowers!
Starting Sunday with lovely music by Willem de Fesch: Concerto in C minor for Violin & B.c Op.5 No.5
https://youtu.be/Xl6E-MUsIeg
#music #ClassicalMusic #BarockMusic
Good morning Flowers!
Starting the weekend with festive music by Mauro D’Alay: Concerto in D minor for 2 Violins, Strings & B.c
https://youtu.be/AhdxPEhu4g8
#music #ClassicalMusic #BarockMusic
Bruno Schrecker obituary
By Stephen Venables
Cellist and a member of the Allegri String Quartet for their 1970s recordings of Schubert, Elgar and Britten
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/sep/11/bruno-schrecker-obituary
#Classicalmusic #Music #UKnews #Culture #TheGuardian #StephenVenables
Longshot, but: are you in Canada and have a copy of a CD called "Great Northern" by the fusion jazz band Skywalk? I've been on the hunt for a physical copy, would love to buy it off you.
Playing With Fire review – like Disney’s Fantasia on steroids as a virtual Yuja Wang plays amid luminous dreamworlds
By Erica Jeal
Southbank Centre, London Wang’s avatar performs music from Ravel and Debussy to Prokofiev and Liszt while dizzying virtual worlds take shape around her in this virtual reality installation
#Classicalmusic #Culture #Music #SouthbankCentre #YujaWang #Virtualreality #Installation #Technology #TheGuardian #EricaJeal
'Insane’: Australian organist plays 16 hours of back-to-back Bach
By Dee Jefferson
Starting at 6am this Sunday, Calvin Bowman will embark on an epic feat of endurance so physically demanding he’ll have a masseur on hand to aid his recovery
#Australianmusic #Classicalmusic #Culture #Music #Brisbanefestival #TheGuardian #DeeJefferson
Conductor Julian Wachner receives suspended sentence for possession of child sex abuse material https://www.npr.org/2026/09/09/nx-s1-5962805/conductor-julian-wachner-suspended-sentence-for-possession-of-child-sex-abuse-material?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #classicalmusic #music #npr
Don Giovanni review – reality recedes in visually dizzying Mozart tour de force
By Clive Paget
Royal Opera House, LondonThis revival of Kaspar Holten’s 2014 staging puts the focus on the Don’s psychology. Aigul Akhmetshina’s Elvira is a standout performance in a strong cast
#Opera #Classicalmusic #Culture #Music #RoyalOperaHouse #WolfgangAmadeusMozart #TheGuardian #ClivePaget