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Good morning Fedizens!
It's already hot. Drinking coffee and listening to chill music by
Johann Christian Bach: Concerto in E-flat major for Keyboard & Strings Op.7 No.5 W.C 59
The Hanover Band
Anthony Halstead, fortepiano
https://youtu.be/CZ02nOjAE98
##Coffee & #ClassicalMusic
#FranzSchubert 1797 - 1828
#PianoTrio No. 2, op. 100 (1827) #D929
i Allegro
ii Andante con moto
iii Scherzo. Allegro moderato - Trio
iv Allegro moderato
#sabelleFaust #Violin
#SolGabetta #Cello
#KristianBezuidenhout #Fortepiano
#musik #music #musique #musica
#Schubert ¤ronabticmusic #classicalmusic
#AmyBeach 1867 – 1944
#PianoQuintet, Op. 67 (1907)
I. Adagio - Allegro moderato
II. Adagio espressivo
III. Allegro agitato - Adagio come prima - Presto
#NicholasTavani #Violin
#JisunYang #Violin
#CaitlinLynch #Viola
#MichaelKatz #Cello
#JohnNovacek #Piano
#ErikSatie 1866 –1925
Gnossienne No.1
#KarinNakagawa - #Koto 25 string
#André Buser - #Bass
#Urs Wiesner - #Vibraphone
#Günter Wehinger - #Flute
#musik #music #musique #musica #Satie #classicalmusic #modernistmusic
[#rediffusion] Redécouvrez ma #composition : Escapades scandinaves op. 4 pour #violon #alto #violoncelle https://makertube.net/w/2eVsY7HoAKkihXGiWao7Pi #musique #musiqueClassique #classicalMusic #music #myWork #NewMusic Merci d'avance pour vos vues / likes / abonnements / partages 😍🙏🎶🎻 @music
https://www.europesays.com/dk/92174/ Vilnius Launches “Unearthing the Great Synagogue of Vilna” #ClassicalMusic #Jazz #Lithuania #Opera #SplashMagazinesWorldwideIsYourDestinationForInDepthCultureCoverageIncludingTheatre #Vilnius
今日はピアニストのヴラド・ペルルミュテールの誕生日。1904年、当時ロシア帝国領のコヴノ、現在のリトアニアのカウナス生まれ。後にフランスに移住してフランス国籍を取得している。
この人のラヴェルの演奏が好きなんだよなぁ。直接ラヴェルに指導を受けたという話だけれど。
Let's resurrect #MoodMusicMonday. In honour of me killing time until surgery, today's mood will be "waiting".
Post the song or songs that fit the mood of "waiting" interpreted however you want, it can literally be a song about waiting, it can be meta where a song took a long time to come out or a artist/band waited a long time to release it, etc whatever you want!
Remember to include the mood "waiting" and hashtag #MoodMusicMonday so others can participate!.
#music #pop #rock #kpop #jpop #cpop #classicalmusic #metal #RnB #hiphop #rap #techno #dance #countrymusic #anime #vgm #videogames #punk #HeavyMetal
Girolamo Frescobaldi - Canzon dopo l'epistola (Fiori musicali). #classicalMusic youtu.be/fRa33qGCcP4?...
The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford 🇬🇧 / Mark Williams
Muhly: With Eys Lift Up (2026)
#classicalmusic #choral #modernclassical
https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/album/783m5kUKuvoxgoNuVNUAmr?si=hHwn7gC-RD-4XncKN6gaLg
Today, I shall mostly be listening to Philip Glass.
@classicalmusic #ClassicalMusic
Philip Glass: Prison and Protest from Philip Glass, Anton Batagov
https://philipglass.bandcamp.com/album/philip-glass-prison-and-protest
Coming up in the next few hours:
12:00UTC The Global Classical Hour🔁 by Shawn Klein: An hour of global #ClassicalMusic.
13:00UTC Music For the Mountain Bluegrass🔁 by Jon 'Chip' Colcord: That hard-driving #bluegrass sound, with classic and new tunes.
14:00UTC Der Aad Leeflang Mix by Aad Leeflang: (Auf Deutsch, in German): #eclectic, #worldMusic, #pop, #rock, #metal, etc.
16:00 Eyes On Success🔁 by Peter and Nancy Goodman Torpey. : the ever changing world of #accessibility. #a11y.
Today has been a full one and I am glad it is nearly over.
This morning started with a GP appointment where my blood test results came back. My diabetes management needs adjusting, so my medication has changed. I am now on Synjardy, a combination tablet that brings metformin and empagliflozin together into one. Simpler on paper. A lot to sit with in practice.
What I did not feel I got today was a proper rundown of the side effects, and I have another appointment tomorrow where I plan to push for that conversation properly. I wish medical professionals would simply lead with the information rather than making patients ask. What I do know already is that empagliflozin increases urination as part of how it works, flushing excess glucose through the kidneys. That is a real problem for me. Managing bathroom urgency is already difficult enough without a medication actively making it worse, and I am not entirely sure how I am going to navigate that, especially on days when I am out or studying.
Food management is its own frustration. Texture sensitivities and sensory processing differences make low carb eating genuinely hard. Breakfast stumps me every single time. Lunch has been salad again, with the occasional sandwich. Snacks may need to disappear entirely. It is exhausting.
This afternoon I also found out my new support worker has broken her wrist and is booked off for three weeks. It happened last week while she was on my shift. She fell going to the bathroom while I was finishing my coffee. I feel terrible about it, and it also leaves me in a complicated spot practically.
The one thing that has genuinely carried me through today is Haydn's piano trios. I have been listening to them and they are extraordinary. Haydn wrote over 40 of them across his life, and they sit in a fascinating place in chamber music history, formally structured but full of warmth, wit, and surprise. The cello in Haydn's trios is largely tied to the piano bass line rather than given an independent voice, which sounds like a limitation but creates this remarkable tightly woven texture. The piano carries the melodic weight while the violin sings above it. The Gypsy Rondo from Trio No. 43 in G major is the most well known, with that irresistible Hungarian-inflected final movement, but the quieter, more reflective trios are the ones I keep returning to. There is something in the balance of structure and tenderness in late Haydn that feels exactly right when a day has been too much.
Studies started today too. Relationship counselling and addictions counselling, both already making me think hard. Addiction is not a moral failure or a willpower problem. It is relational at its core, rooted in pain and disconnection, and the neuroscience supports that entirely. What someone is really learning from the substance is always the more important question. First lecture is Wednesday evening, not my favourite time slot, but I am looking forward to it.
#AuDHD #Blind #Counselling #Neuroscience #Haydn #ClassicalMusic #StudentLife #Diabetes #PeerSupport #MentalHealth
Good morning Fedijockeys!
Starting this Holiday Monday with lots of ☕ ☕ ☕ & music by
Alessandro Stradella: Sinfonia in D major 'A concertino e concerto grosso distinti'
Capriccio Barockorchester, Dominik Kiefer
https://youtu.be/stBTSgvn42s
#Coffee & #ClassicalMusic
I see that nrw.social/@ohrenweide has a BBC Radio 3 bot that saves music played on Spotify. How do I search their posts to find any references to the Composer of the Week programme? Maybe editorial content is out of their scope, only recorded music.
I'd like to be able to listen back to last week's series on Palestrina. I miss the BBC Sounds app now that it is UK only.
#classicalmusic #renaissance #polyphony #bbcradio3 #bbcsounds
#Introduction: Alto choral scholar and counselling postgrad by day, compulsive reader and writer by night.
I came to counselling through a winding path that includes a Bachelor of Music with a vocal major, AMEB Grade 8 piano, and a Graduate Certificate in Neuroscience, because I have always needed to understand both the human voice and the human brain. The counselling is where those two obsessions finally make sense together.
I sing alto as a choral scholar, and classical music is less a hobby and more a way of existing. I also write long-form and reflective pieces, the kind that try to articulate what sits just underneath the surface. I have worked as a piano teacher, a peer support facilitator, a reference group member in the disability sector, and a freelance writer, which together form a fairly honest portrait of what I care about.
I am #AuDHD and #Blind and hard of hearing, navigating postgraduate study and a life built largely on listening closely to things. I am here for depth. Conversations about #MentalHealth, #Neuroscience, #Counselling, #ClassicalMusic, #Choral, disability, and lived experience. If any of that resonates, I would love to connect. #Alto #PeerSupport #Introduction
Elim Chan named San Francisco Symphony music director | Classical Music https://www.classical-music.com/news/elim-chan-san-francisco-music-director?utm_medium=mastodon&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=article&utm_campaign=campaign #ClassicalMusic
The lilac tree at one end of the deck has blossomed and you can’t see ‘em in the photo but take my word for it there’s at least four bigass bumblebees working it over. A hummingbird also made a pass or two before flitting away. I watch ‘em for a bit then go back to some reading and listening to some Tchaikovsky out here.
#MusicOfMastodon
#ClassicalMusic
#1812Overture
今日はグスターヴ・ホルストの命日。1934年、ロンドンにて没、享年59。
死の前年に書いた「ブルック・グリーン組曲」の後は断片的な作品が何点か残されただけになった。スケルツォは交響曲になる予定だったが、未完に終わっている。
遺灰はサセックスのチチェスター大聖堂 https://maps.app.goo.gl/Xx1fEaHpueMrKk456 に埋葬され、床にモニュメントが埋め込まれている。https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Memorial_For_Gustav_Holst.jpg#/media/File:Memorial_For_Gustav_Holst.jpg ここに刻まれた“The heavenly spheres make music for us” はホルストの「イエス讃歌」の中の一節。
Aus Anlass seines heutigen Geburtstages – Louis François Dauprat: „Grand Trio 2 Performede by Euphonium Trio“
L.F.DAUPRAT Grand Trio 2 pour 3 cors en MI Op.4-2
#classicalmusic
#OTD
https://fediserve.de/preview.php?v=3Y8NqK-B064
Jetzt #Zwischenstille und den Trabaci auf die Ohren. 🎧
#Klassik
#Barock
#classicalmusic
https://fediserve.de/preview.php?v=Tx49nY8PjLE
The most interesting version perhaps:
https://open.spotify.com/album/5rstsAWsBeIO71nrlXV4dU?si=DPnVavVkRLOwZacGr8r-FQ
Simeon ten Holt
Canto Ostinato

There’s a new Amanita Design game in town! That means a new Floex soundtrack with Phonopolis. The game launched on 20th May and there’s 60 minutes of new musical excellence to experience.
Whilst offering all the familiar looping, neoclassical, electronic familiar Floex-ness, it also has a unique soundscape that has a heavy emphasis on sound effects, drawing players into the experience unlike previous Amanita games. It’s a wonderful score and offers something for everyone.
Amanita Design has very kindly put the whole score up for free on its official YouTube channel. We’ve timestamped our favourite of the lot above, that’s the track called Anton (but feel free to swoop through the whole score, that’s it above right there).
Anton is the eighth composition, but there are 17 in total.
And whilst his previous work (such as the incredible Samorost 3 soundtrack) offers more unusual, cosmic themes of experimentation, we’d say the Phonopolis score is one of his more accessible works.
The genre is sometimes called folktronica. As in, mixing traditional instruments with synthesisers and ambient sound design.
But… that characteristic Floex (Tomáš Dvořák is his real name) style is always there. Like with the beautiful Composer’s Apartment below, that signature blend of electronic production alongside acoustic instrumentation.
He merges tension and natural musicality, always there with that adventurous and nervous spirit.
Amanita Design teased us all pre-release with one of the tracks. Railway Electro is a classic Floex composition, that looping electronic ambience in action. He has this capacity, like all great composers, to make pieces that feel instantly familiar.
If this was an album from the ’70s, you’d bet this would be “the single” studios would hope for a top 10 hit kind of deal.
The work is a collaborative effort, too, as Amanita noted in its press release:
“The music for Phonopolis is being written and produced by Amanita’s long-term collaborator Tomáš Dvořák aka Floex (Machinarium, Samorost, Pilgrims) with sound effects provided by audio engineer and foley artist Matouš Godík (Samorost 3, Creaks). Until now, Amanita Design has been known for including no comprehensible language in their games. That changes with Phonopolis, as its story will be told in a narrative voice.”
That’s correct, as the game features narration for the first time in the Amanita universe. An English guy called Joe Acheson. Very nice, lending a soothing tone to complement the soundtrack. Acheson is a composer in his own right, he works as a solo artist as Hidden Orchestra and he composed the soundtrack to Amanita Design’s puzzle platformer Creaks (2018).
So, yes, Floex doesn’t always do the scores for Amanita’s games.
But he usually does and his style is so distinctive. Every moment in Phonopolis has been meticulously crafted to offer something unique. Heck, even the main menu theme is a melodic little number we’ll happily have drifting in the background whilst we work.
Amanita Design and Floex remain a match made in ambient heaven. These abstract, curious, intriguing games have been brought to immersive life through his music over the last decade. Long may this continue.
#acoustic #AmanitaDesign #ClassicalMusic #Composers #electroacoustic #electronicMusic #Floex #Folktronica #IndieGames #Lifestyle #Music #Phonopolis #TomášDvořák #worldMusicGuillaume de Machaut Ma fin est mon commencement Mie Miki, Akkordeon Nobuko Imai, Viola. #classicalMusic youtu.be/89Y6AXpFpSU
https://www.europesays.com/ch/71258/ LOOKING BACK: Geneva Choral Society thrived in early 20th century | Lifestyle #choir #ChoralMusic #ClassicalMusic #EvanWilliams(tenor) #Geneva #LouiseHomer #music #opera #PaulAlthouse #singing #soprano #tenor #VocalMusic
Sollte es bei Euch zu warm sein empfehle ich dieses vorzügliche Konzert.
#hitze #hitzewelle #music #classicalmusic #jsbach
https://youtu.be/IImakFsEHL8?si=uNynvIzphIEi7Gsy
I wrote this originally for piano and later on, made this arrangement for orchestra.
#composer #originalcomposition #composition #music #musician #orchestra #orchestral #symphony #dtm #virtualorchestration #sheetmusic #classical #classicalmusic #neoclassical
VR Experience Transports Guests to Ancient Rome
My first encounter with Virtual Reality (VR) came with the purchase of a Sony Playstation. Donning a futuristic…
#Italy #Europe #Europa #EU #Rome #classicalmusic #jazz #opera #SplashMagazinesWorldwideisyourdestinationforin-depthculturecoverageincludingtheatre
https://www.europesays.com/italy/19245/
今日はアラム・ハチャトゥリアンの誕生日。1903年(当時はグレゴリオ暦で6月6日)、当時はロシア帝国領だったティフリス(現在はジョージアの首都トビリシ)に生まれている。
生家は特定できなかったが、1906年から22年までを過ごした家は現存している。https://maps.app.goo.gl/RgKwerGsJwgYK9nX6 その間は特に音楽教育は受けていなかったという。
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: It's Emperor Rosko your transatlantic dj. #Movies, #Radio, #tv #PopMusic.
04:00UTC The Country Jamboree: Mike & Maureen have your #ClassicCountry & #bluegrass fix.
05:00UTC Tripledutch 🔁 (Broadcast in Dutch): #music from nowadays. #radio.
As the cello and the bass compete to bring the flutter and grounding of the scene, the oboe and tuba begin the march of rhythm, slowly the flute viola and piano bring a bounce into the work like a fresh breeze on a summer's day, then with triumph and majesty the trumpets roar to life bringing the entire horn section to the party, the drums begin to roll like the thunder in the distance, as they get closer the cymbals bells and guitars lift you to your feet just as the xylophones and bassones wake the trombones and saxophones, a lone voice begins to sing then sudden calm of silence and then an entire chorus and orchestra springs to life with the force of a billion stars, transporting you into a cosmic journey as their harmonious rhythm embraces your soul; I am not sure of where this goes but I can hear it in my soul;
You can encourage my continued useless #poetry, creativity and expression of self, #commentary, random thoughts, #philosophy and ideas, and by doing so your helping to feed, house and clothe a #disabled man living in #poverty, $5-10-15 It All Helps, via #cashapp at $woctxphotog or via #paypal at paypal.com/donate?campaign_id=…
Aus Anlass seines heutigen Geburtstages – Michel Farinel (auch: Michel Farinelli): „Michel Farinel: The Faronell's Ground for violin and basso continuo (1685) / Trio Sonnerie MICHEL FARINEL [1649-1726] FARONELL'S GROUND for violin and basso continuo – 0:05 Stephen Stubbs (baroque guitar & theorbo) 1993
from THE DIVISION-VIOLIN (London, Playford, 1685)
Andrew Lawrence-King (harpsichord)
Trio Sonnerie / Andrew Lawrence-King (conductor)
Teldec – DDD“
#Barock
#classicalmusic
#OTD
https://fediserve.de/preview.php?v=KVlfkX9w4V4
In quiet moments of reflection. 🖤 Looking forward to sharing more music and thoughts with this wonderful community soon. #musician #portrait #journalism #artists #classicalmusic #creative #pianist #musicology #blackandwhite #Weekend #Saturday
Hudba na sobotní večer.
Chtěl jsem něco klidnějšího a volba padla na #jordisavall kterého jsem kdysi objel díky #violadagamba .
I just added Llobet's "El Mestre" to my classical-guitar repertoire: it took about 3 weeks, 15–30 minutes/day, to memorise it.
Here's the full list of pieces I can play from memory now, includings studies and short pieces:
Continuing my effort to share #music that is new to me (and hopefully to others as well): Brilliant exhibition of "Naadaswaram", a woodwind instrument from #India. Watch just 11mins if pressed for time; 20 to fully appreciate the #skill. 🎶
The player Kaleeshabi Mahaboob and her husband (also in the #video) have an impressive story.👇
#JohannSebastianBach 1685 -1750
Partita No.2 in D Minor (1717 ~1720) #BWV1004
#ViktoriaMullova #Violin
#musik #music #musique #musica #JSBach
#classicalmusic #galantmusic
#MikhailGlinka /#МихаилГлинка/ 1804 - 1857
#Second Spanish overture. 'Summer Night in Madrid- (1848-1851).
#USSRSymphonyOrchestra
#YevgeniSvetlanov
#musik #music #musique #musica #classicalmusic #romanticmusic #Glinka #Глинка
Good morning Fedifaes!
Starting the weekend with lots of ☕ ☕ ☕ & music by
Johann Joachim Quantz: Concerto in G minor for Flute, Strings & B.c QV 5:200
The Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman
Rachel Brown, flute
Sally Jackson, bassoon obbligato
https://youtu.be/ndmINdGyDYg
#Coffee & #ClassicalMusic
今日はジャン・フランセの誕生日。1912年、ル・マンの生まれ。
あまり著名な作曲家とは言えないが、いわゆる「現代音楽」とは無縁の明るく洒落た作風の作品が多く、特に管楽器を含んだ室内楽や協奏曲に再演を続ける作品が多い。クラリネット協奏曲は難曲。
コントラバスのための協奏曲も書いているが、岩城宏之の指揮で録音が残っている。
Aus Anlass seines heutigen Geburtstages – Gaetano Andreozzi:
„Gaetano Andreozzi Largo - estratto dall'opera "la Vergine del sole"
Maria Tersa Roncone (Cembalo)
Fabio Di Lella (Flöte)“
#Klassik
#classicalmusic
#OTD
https://fediserve.de/preview.php?v=LFtKWeCbdM8
Listening to Schubert’s last piano sonata, D960 in B flat major, and lamenting his loss. Thinking what was coming, that never happened.
It was written in the last months before he died, aged 31. Thirty-one.
Herbert Blomstedt (mentioned the other day) has lived more than three Schuberts. I’m not far off two Schuberts.
Sibelius: Violin Concerto - Lemminkäinen Suite.
- Ava Bahari, Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Gothenberg Symphony Orchestra
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6Dlwn9HbzuoDZxOGctTyzq?si=56f1043ab4d14242 #music #classicalmusic #Sibelius