John Tilbury: At Home album review – an eclectic and extraordinary treasure trove
By Clive Paget

John Tilbury(Another Timbre, four CDs)The great interpreter of Morton Feldman and a towering figure of experimental music signs off with four discs of intimate, revelatory recordings

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/31/john-tilbury-at-home-album-review-another-timbre

#Classicalmusic #Music #Culture #TheGuardian #ClivePaget

Today is brought to you by #SigurRos :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4v-dumTNqo

#Music #PostRock

This song always brings me to tears: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzjtLm0G49E

#Music #AmigoTheDevil

BBCSSO/Wigglesworth / Booth review – Brett Dean’s song cycle is rich and strange
By Alexandra Coghlan

Royal Albert HallSoprano Clare Booth, Ryan Wigglesworth and the BBC Scottish gave the world premiere of Dean’s theatrical and engaging The World’s Wife. Elgar’s 1st didn’t quite achieve lift-off but Weir’s Moon and Star had sweep and shimmer

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/30/proms-bbcsso-wigglesworth-booth-review-brett-dean-elgar-weir

#Classicalmusic #Proms2026 #Proms #BBCScottishSymphonyOrchestra #Music #Culture #Festivals #TheGuardian #AlexandraCoghlan

‘It’s the Meryl Streep of the orchestra’: why cinema loves the cello
By Jonathan Wells

From Audrey Hepburn to Pedro Pascal, cellists have become a movie shorthand for sensitivity, intensity and emotional depth. But why has Hollywood turned one orchestral instrument into a character in its own right?

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jul/30/its-the-meryl-streep-of-the-orchestra-why-cinema-loves-the-cello

#Film #Culture #Classicalmusic #Music #PedroPascal #AudreyHepburn #JamieFoxx #EmilyWatson #TheGuardian #JonathanWells

Die Fledermaus review – Strauss staging has flourish and froth, but not enough fizz
By Clive Paget

Opera Holland Park, London Liam Steel relocates Johann Strauss’s operetta to London 1929 to create the feel of a Noël Coward-style farce. Rebecca Bottone, Olivia Carrell and Clare Presland shine amid a strong cast.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/30/die-fledermaus-review-opera-holland-park-london

#Opera #OperaHollandPark #Classicalmusic #Culture #Music #TheGuardian #ClivePaget

Giordano: Marina album review – a fascinating resurrection of an unsung early opera
By Clive Paget

Buratto/De Tommaso/Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali/Milletarì(Decca)The long-lost score, finally premiered 138 years after it was written, brims with melodic promise despite its dramatic shortcomings

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/30/giordano-marina-album-review-a-fascinating-resurrection-of-an-unsung-early-opera

#Classicalmusic #Music #Opera #Culture #TheGuardian #ClivePaget

Freudian trip: how psychoanalysis and skydiving are helping Aurora orchestra open up Mahler’s First
By Jane Mitchell

When Mahler premiered his first symphony, it left audiences baffled. For their latest Prom, Aurora are bringing it to life – with the help of Sigmund Freud

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/30/freudian-trip-how-psychoanalysis-and-skydiving-are-helping-aurora-orchestra-open-up-mahlers-first

#Classicalmusic #Culture #Music #AuroraOrchestra #Proms2026 #SigmundFreud #TheGuardian #JaneMitchell

BBCSO/Oramo review – Turnage’s satisfying and clever Festen Suite makes UK debut
By Alexandra Coghlan

Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe festering atmosphere of Thomas Vinterberg’s film and its celebrated opera adaptation lingers in this vivid orchestration, a foil to Sibelius’s cathartic second symphony

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/29/bbcso-oramo-review-royal-albert-hall-london-turnage-festen-suite-sibelius

#Classicalmusic #Culture #Music #Proms2026 #BBCSymphonyOrchestra #MarkAnthonyTurnage #JeanSibelius #Proms #TheGuardian #AlexandraCoghlan

I thought Nolan’s Odyssey was an epic bore. If you want Greek myths brought to life, try the thrill of opera!
By Tom Service

Composers from Purcell to Birtwistle have created passionate dramas inspired by ancient Greek stories – and none of them require you to sit through three hours of solemn spectacle without an interval

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/29/odyssey-christopher-nolan-opera-greek-myths

#Music #Classicalmusic #Opera #Culture #TheOdyssey #TheGuardian #TomService

For my new followers: this year I finished designing and sewing this series of four wall quilts inspired by the four movements in Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt symphonic suite (you absolutely know the tunes for #1 and #4). One shape per bar of music, the chord determines the colour. Details at my blog: https://www.icemoonprison.com/blog/?p=282 #ThrowbackThursday #OC #quilting #quilts #music #ClassicalMusic #FiberArts @fiberarts@a.gup.pe

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"Morning Mood". Rectangular wall quilt with hexagonal tiles laid out to resemble colourful clouds against a blue sky. Some lapel pins dot the background.

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"Ase's Death". Rectangular wall quilt with several horizontal bands in colourful gradients. They are organized to suggest a phone text conversation.

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"Anitra's Dance". Rectangular wall quilt made of tiled triangles. They are arranged to fill a spacj with a meandering line. There are triangular rhinestones and there is wavy metallic embroidery.

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"In the Hall of the Mountain King". Rectangular wall quilt which looks a bit like a step pyramid, or maybe a top-down view of a xylophone. Each row gets progressively bigger and brighter until there are starburst explosions in the last three rows.

Another random poll, on music. Although, not sure if this will be biased by the Fediverse specifically attracting specific kind of people.

The question is, how many people listen to music that they developed a taste for in their youth (usually high school and college age?), vs. later, vs. always changing?

(My music tastes drift constantly, but my extended family's taste in music is fixed and does not change, is why I ask.)

#music

Tuatara's "Trading With the Enemy" is still one of my all-time favorite albums. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekpS4SfuBxE&list=PL4x9UMJPVN3y-G0XK2_xUkOXXV1HpCYp- #music

LPO/Gardner review – squirrels, shepherdesses and a tumultuous storm
By Clive Paget

Royal Albert Hall, London From Kristine Tjøgersen’s tranquil woodland reverie to Canteloube’s Auvergne and Strauss’s thunderous mountainscape, the London Philharmonic – with Louise Alder – conjured colours and brought drama to this vivid programme

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/28/lpo-gardner-review-louise-alder-kristine-tjgersen-strauss-proms

#Proms2026 #Music #Classicalmusic #Culture #LondonPhilharmonicOrchestra #EdwardGardner #TheGuardian #ClivePaget

[#rediffusion] Redécouvrez ce grand classique de #Debussy, orchestré par moi-même et interprété par Jean-Yves Malmasson et son #orchestre ! Claude Debussy, Arabesque n° 1 (orchestration de Nicolas Hussein) https://makertube.net/w/5mvp6ecWoLUT4z9cfj4t4K Merci d'avance pour vos vues / likes / abonnements / partages 😍🙏🎶🎻 #musique #musiqueClassique #classicalMusic #music #myWork #orchestration @music

Recommendation to people who enjoy Kukeiha Club's fusion jazz: try Vancouver band Skywalk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-oFttPvMBM

#music #jazz

It's Monday, which means it's time for #MoodMusicMonday where I pick the mood and you pick a song or songs you think fits the mood!

Today's mood is going to be "wobbly".

The song or songs can be about wobbling or sound wobbly or be when the artist or band's career or lives were wobbling or whatever you want! It's up to you to interpret the mood!

Be sure to include the hashtag #MoodMusicMonday and the mood "wobbly".

If you can, include a link to the song so others can hear too!

#music #popmusic #songs #vgm #anime #Jpop #kpop #classicalmusic #rock #rap #rnb #countrymusic #opera #hiphop #edm

Rienzi review – Wagner’s early opera makes its Bayreuth debut as a frenzied contemporary election drama
By Flora Willson

Bayreuth festival theatre, BayreuthAlexandra Szemerédy and Magdolna Parditka’s production swaps 14th-century Rome for an abstract near future in an over-busy staging . Jennifer Holloway’s Adriano is a standout in a strong cast

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/27/rienzi-review-bayreuth-wagner-stutzmann-schager

#Opera #RichardWagner #Culture #Classicalmusic #Music #TheGuardian #FloraWillson

CBSO/Yamada review – Poulenc and Adams pairing is stylish, witty and thrilling
By Alexandra Coghlan

Royal Albert Hall, LondonLucas and Arthur Jussen brought fun and energy to Poulenc’s Concerto for Two Pianos, and John Adams’ Harmonium was monumental and moving in the City of Birmingham Orchestra and Chorus’ Prom under their chief conductor Kazuki Yamada

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/27/cbsoyamada-review-poulenc-and-adams-pairing-is-stylish-witty-and-thrilling

#Proms2026 #Classicalmusic #CityofBirminghamSymphonyOrchestra #Culture #Music #TheGuardian #AlexandraCoghlan

Random/clueless LP/music question:

How do you file/organize your LPs?

Alphabetically?
By Genre?
By Color?
Favorites vs. not favorites?

(assuming you only have a small collection, of course).

(also, impossible to read the edges of most of the albums I have. You just pull them out until you get to the one you're looking for?)

#lp #music

The Oresteia review – this body-shaking, blood-soaked opera is exhilaratingly wild
By Dee Jefferson

Sydney Chamber Opera, CarriageworksSix singers put not only their vocal cords but their bodies on the line in a physically demanding performance of Liza Lim’s aurally challenging opera

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/27/the-oresteia-review-sydney-chamber-opera

#Opera #Classicalmusic #Culture #Music #Australiantheatre #Sydney #Stage #Australianews #TheGuardian #DeeJefferson

The Tragically Hip: "Bobcaygeon" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6QDjDPRF5c #music

Barenaked Ladies: "Pinch Me" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3NE6UuaLiY #music

The Tragically Hip: "Ahead by a Century" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QE2joQsWXJg #music I've never understood this song but it always pulls at my heart.

🦄 🤘 You’re an angry #MetalHead person but you’re fighting this whole shit while riding a purple unicorn and throwing flowers at people’s face! It’s not Sad But True!

https://youtu.be/7ykY9FJLnoA

#Metallica #Music #Cover #melodicka_bros

Three Choirs festival review – impressive opening salvo full of crackling energy and exuberant fireworks
By Clive Paget

Gloucester CathedralA packed crowd greeted this year’s curtain raiser for a delightfully Tiggerish premiere of Gavin Higgins’ Fanfare Americana, an exhilarating Elgar’s First and a joyful rendition of Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/26/three-choirs-festival-review-impressive-opening-salvo-full-of-crackling-energy-and-exuberant-fireworks

#Classicalmusic #Culture #Music #Choralmusic #Gloucestershire #Festivals #TheGuardian #ClivePaget

Title: Dawn
Composer: @h0ffman
Format: Amiga, Protracker, 8bit, 4CH Mod.

made for Revision Party 2026

https://invidious.tiekoetter.com/watch?v=xetsdAxKBTI

#Amiga #Protracker #music #8bit #4ch #revision #compo #scene

Sinfonia of London/Wilson review – night of Technicolor masterpieces from one of the finest orchestras on the planet
By Clive Paget

Royal Albert Hall, LondonVerdi’s La Forza del Destino felt vital, cellist Jonathan Aasgaard was immaculate in Walton’s Concerto but it was John Wilson’s wizardly conducting through Respighi’s Roman Trilogy that brought the audience to their feet

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/26/sinfonia-of-londonwilson-review-night-of-technicolor-masterpieces-from-one-of-the-finest-orchestras-on-the-planet

#Classicalmusic #Proms2026 #Culture #Music #RoyalAlbertHall #TheGuardian #ClivePaget

Spinnage - A Midsummer Night's Dream https://ahiweb.bandcamp.com/track/a-midsummer-nights-dream

#music #techno

The cool cat version of Summertime:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbnibpGp2Bw

#music #jazz

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.

Blue Rodeo: "5 Days in May" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuUnApNzIz0 #music

Samuel Barber: "Adagio for Strings" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQsgE0L450 #music

Wildes Holz: Pachelbel meets Greenday, a canon in a basketcase 🤘 🪈

#music #classical #PunkRock

https://youtu.be/KIa9CLw-BTQ

Appropriate for today.

https://song.link/s/6uU0Hu8oVk9gBihokcrDMH

#Music #SoundTrackOfTheDay #JukeBox #MastoMusic #MastoRadio #FediMusic #FediRadio

John McCabe: Symphonies 2 & 3 and Cello Concerto album review – writing of enormous scope and colour
By Erica Jeal

BBCSSO/Woods/WallfischSignumThe late pianist and composer deserves a wider audience for the edgy, lucid soundworld of his compositions

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/24/john-mccabe-symphonies-2-3-and-cello-concerto-album-review-writing-of-enormous-scope-and-colour

#Classicalmusic #Music #Culture #BBCScottishSymphonyOrchestra #TheGuardian #EricaJeal

Beethoven: The Last Three Sonatas/Mitsuko Uchida album review – the music emerges as if new
By Erica Jeal

DeccaThere are no major surprises in this live recording, just the simple but sublime sense that the music is being handed from composer, through pianist, to us

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/23/beethoven-the-last-three-sonatasmitsuko-uchida-album-review-the-music-emerges-as-if-new

#Classicalmusic #Music #Culture #LudwigvanBeethoven #TheGuardian #EricaJeal