William Orbit obituary
By Adam Sweeting

Musician and record producer who reignited Madonna’s career with his work on her 1998 album Ray of Light

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/09/william-orbit-obituary

#Popandrock #Madonna #RobbieWilliams #London #Classicalmusic #Electronicmusic #Music #Comedy #HarryEnfield #PaulWhitehouse #CharlieHigson #LosAngeles #TheGuardian #AdamSweeting

Which of these bands is the best?

#EvanPoll #poll #music

National Youth Orchestra/Adès review – assured young musicians end their season all guns blazing
By Flora Willson

Royal Albert Hall, LondonThunderous timpani, stereo harps, a supersized horn section and 160 teenagers combined for Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, Adès’s Dante and a Liszt waltz

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/09/national-youth-orchestra-thomas-ades-review-proms

#Proms2026 #Proms #Music #Culture #Classicalmusic #ThomasAds #TheGuardian #FloraWillson

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Venditti review – a fervent but lithe-limbed Stabat Mater
By Clive Paget

Royal Albert Hall, LondonNil Venditti’s animated account of Rossini’s choral work embraced its lyricism and theatricality – paired on the bill with the Proms debut of Respighi’s Church Windows

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/09/bbc-symphony-orchestra-nil-venditti-stabat-mater-prom

#Proms2026 #BBCSymphonyOrchestra #Classicalmusic #Music #Culture #Proms #RoyalAlbertHall #Opera #TheGuardian #ClivePaget

Coming up in the next few hours:
00:00UTC The Global Classical Hour by Shawn Klein: An hour of global #ClassicalMusic.
01:00UTC Radio Ecoshock 🔁: #ClimateChange, #polution, the #economy, #peace. #EnvironmentalScience #talk.
02:00UTC L.A. Connection: Emperor Rosko your transatlantic dj. #Movies, #Radio, #tv #PopMusic.
04:00UTC The Country Jamboree: Mike & Maureen have your #ClassicCountry & #bluegrass.
05:00UTC The Memory Lane Show🔁 #music from the good old days with Big Bob. #radio #oldies.

Great Big Sea: "The Chemical Worker's Song" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whdzP0GHuc4 #music

Yo chooms!

Bandcamp Friday is here again - the one day where the whole cut goes straight to the artist instead of getting eaten up along the way.

So I figured I'd make it worth your while: use the code "cyber" at checkout and everything digital in my shop is 90% off. Grab one track, pull the entire catalogue onto your cyberdeck, whatever you feel like. It's all yours to keep, DRM-free, offline, forever.

https://revengeday.bandcamp.com/

This one lands at a good moment for me, too. I've got a surgery coming up that I'm partly covering myself. Nothing dramatic - but knowing there are people out there still listening makes it a whole lot easier. Whatever you load up today is part of that.

Thank you

#BandcampFriday #Music #FediMusic #MastoMusic

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Screenshot of my Bandcamp page overlaid with a CRT effect, making the text and cover artworks not immediately recognizable.

Record #3 from the Sunday haul: Crime of the century by Supertramp #music #records

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Supertramp's crime of the century record on top of a record player

Alyssa Hankey: "Werewolves of London" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh923deNfVU #music

Oberon review – part panto, part grand opera, Weber’s final work has charm but doesn’t quite convince
By Alexandra Coghlan

Royal Albert Hall, LondonThere’s a new narration delivered by Tamsin Greig and the crack forces of the Monteverdi Choir, the ORR and world-class singers, all led by Mark Elder, but the 200-year-old piece remains a strange hybrid

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/07/weber-oberon-review-opera-proms-elder-monterverdi-choir-and-orchestra

#Proms2026 #Opera #Classicalmusic #Culture #Music #TheGuardian #AlexandraCoghlan

Grieg Lyric Pieces album review – Feltsman brings a probing flexibility that transforms this music
By Clive Paget

Vladimir Feltsman(Nimbus)Feltsman’s comprehensive survey of the Lyric Pieces is revelatory and authoritative

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/07/grieg-lyric-pieces-album-review-feltsman-brings-a-probing-flexibility-that-transforms-this-music

#Classicalmusic #Music #Culture #TheGuardian #ClivePaget

Strange Loops: Clarinet Quintets album review – drama, imagination and sonic flair
By Clive Paget

Van de Wiel/Soloists of the Philharmonia(Signum)Clarinettist Mark Von de Wiel performs music by Anna Clyne, Ruth Gipps and Weber

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/07/mark-van-de-wiel-strange-loops-clarinet-quintets-album-review-drama-imagination-and-sonic-flair

#Classicalmusic #Music #Culture #TheGuardian #ClivePaget

Stick Figure w/ Jack Johnson: "Home" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFdtFyUIQPM #music

Time to hallucinate.

They were really a jazz band with brassy electric guitars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7anpSApXtUo

#music #rock #psychedelic

Feisty, funny and for real – how new opera the Galloping Cure puts drama at its heart
By Tom Morris

Missy Mazzoli’s bold new work is about the opioid crisis. The director of its world premiere staging tells of bringing it to life, from tragic arias to blood rehearsals – and a flock of singing sheep

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/06/opera-the-galloping-cure-edinburgh-premiere-opioid-crisis-tom-morris-mazzoli

#Opera #Edinburghfestival2026 #Classicalmusic #Culture #Music #ScottishOpera #Edinburghfestival #Festivals #Stage #TheGuardian #TomMorris

Today is brought to you by #Mogwai : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRFspCUN3IQ

#Music #PostRock #MogwaiBand

Should a tech tycoon be able to pay his way into conducting a world-class orchestra? And should they really sell tickets?
By Tom Service

Elon Musk may be able to buy a trip to Mars, but when the super wealthy pay to be conductors – as Canadian entrepreneur Mandle Cheung is doing – it makes a mockery of a meritocracy in classical music

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/05/mandle-cheung-mahler-second-symphony-royal-philharmonic-orchestra-london

#Music #Classicalmusic #Culture #RoyalPhilharmonicOrchestra #London #UKnews #TheGuardian #TomService

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

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Couverture partition : Bernard Fleurette, Songe, transcription pour alto et piano de Nicolas Hussein

Today is brought to you by #TheNeighborhoodKids : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgj73E0eQ8A

#Music #ICE

Liberated from its ludicrous libretto: how the magnificence of Oberon can be properly heard at last
By Mark Elder

Full of panache and originality, Weber’s grand opera is the work of a composer at the height of his powers – but its plot is a load of nonsense. The conductor of its Proms premiere celebrates its brilliance

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/04/weber-oberon-proms-mark-elder-opera

#Classicalmusic #Culture #Music #MarkElder #Proms2026 #Opera #TheGuardian #MarkElder

[#rediffusion] Venez méditer et planer avec le #trio Isnino #violon #alto #violoncelle ! François-Pierre #Descamps, Méditation pour trio à cordes https://makertube.net/w/pFnigvnN3h2emVGDNrumtw Merci d'avance pour vos vues / likes / abonnements / partages 😍🙏🎶🎻 #myWork #musique #musiqueClassique #classicalMusic #music #newMusic @music

I am psyched to announce last night I finished a new song.

"Welcome To 2025" is the hard-hitting opening track to SECTOR 1, my immersive, empathy-driven #antifascist #art project.

It is now available on #SoundCloud. The link is below.

https://soundcloud.com/peteorrall/welcome-to-2025

#industrial #cyberpunk #dystopia #empathy #electronicmusic #SECTOR1 #musicproduction #MastodonMusic #fiction #WelcomeTo2025 #Music

How a father's love of music took his daughter to the world stage
By Ria Andriani

From Newcastle in NSW to Windsor Castle in England, Christopher and Miriam Allan have carried their family’s love of music across generations and continents.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-04/australian-singers-father-daughter-christopher-and-miriam-allan/106970880

#ClassicalMusic #Choral #Music #Family #RiaAndriani

It was flea market Sunday, so naturally I either spent too much on broken records from randos or ridiculously overspent on good records sold by professionals.

I slept on Stevie Wonder apparently, because this album seems to be the record everyone sampled in the last 40 years 🤯 #music #records

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The record "songs in the key of life" by Stevie wonder resting on a record player.

Ring Cycle review – AI staging dispenses with drama to create banal bric-a-brac
By Flora Willson

Bayreuth festival theatre, BayreuthFor the festival’s 150th anniversary, the creative team have turned to AI to generate visuals reflecting Wagner’s tetralogy’s past, present – and future. The hyperactive result is a dismal, mindless mess

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/03/wagner-bayreuth-ring-cycle-review-ai-staging-dispenses-with-drama-to-create-banal-bric-a-brac

#Opera #Classicalmusic #Culture #Music #AIartificialintelligence #Technology #TheGuardian #FloraWillson

BBCSO/Järvi/Kavakos review – virtuosic violinist makes fiendishly light work of Tchaikovsky
By Clive Paget

Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe intricate concerto was paired with the world premiere of Dani Howard’s likable Concerto for Brass and a lush Scriabin symphony, all admirably led by Paavo Järvi

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/03/bbcso-paavo-jarvi-leonidas-kavakos-review-royal-albert-hall-london-tchaikovsky-dani-howard-concerto-for-brass-scriabuin

#Proms2026 #Music #Classicalmusic #Culture #BBCSymphonyOrchestra #TheGuardian #ClivePaget

‘Trumpeters? We think we’re the kings of the orchestra’: Wynton Marsalis prepares to blow the Edinburgh festival away
By John Lewis

It has 12 movements, 200 musicians and aims to unite America. The great US trumpeter and composer talks about his All Rise symphony, his jazz great mentors – and learning humility from his wife

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/03/trumpeters-wynton-marsalis-edinburgh-festival-all-rise

#WyntonMarsalis #Classicalmusic #Jazz #Culture #Music #Edinburghfestival #Edinburghfestival2026 #Festivals #TheGuardian #JohnLewis

Aurora Orchestra/ Collon review – Freud analyses Mahler to decipher music from the heart
By Clive Paget

Royal Albert Hall, London An acted prelude by Jane Mitchell teased out the composer’s motivations for his engrossing First Symphony before the orchestra assayed the work from memory

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/aug/02/aurora-orchestra-collon-review-royal-albert-hall-proms-mahler-first-symphony-heart-freud

#Classicalmusic #Proms2026 #AuroraOrchestra #GustavMahler #Music #Culture #Proms #TheGuardian #ClivePaget

Coming up in the next few hours:
00:00UTC The Global Classical Hour by Shawn Klein: An hour of global #ClassicalMusic.
01:00UTC Radio Ecoshock 🔁: #ClimateChange, #polution, the #economy, #peace. #EnvironmentalScience #talk.
02:00UTC L.A. Connection: Emperor Rosko your transatlantic dj. #Movies, #Radio, #tv #PopMusic.
04:00UTC The Country Jamboree: Mike & Maureen have your #ClassicCountry & #bluegrass.
05:00UTC The Memory Lane Show🔁 #music from the good old days with Big Bob. #radio #oldies.