Recently watched some of those when visiting my mum in the UK where they're available via one of the streaming platforms. A certain stiffness to the early panel show format but the musical erudition required and displayed is rather refreshing. I saw one with a very young Mitsuko Uchida as guest
It's so hard to find a parking space in Canberra these days... 🙄
I misread that cover as 'Sibelius and Sarasate' and thought 'what an odd choice of programming' 😀
"How many divisions has the Pope?" as another authoritarian once (apocryphally) said...
All this apparent beef between the Trump administration and the Papacy and everyone's talking about Avignon but few are mentioning Canossa. I know where my money lies... #Guelphs
It's almost lasted....
The Easter egg offerings in Australia are especially woeful this year. I'm glad I brought something back from the UK in February
The Grauniad asking the important questions of our time...
"A little less conservation..."
There comes a point when you wake up and realise you've become an organ nerd... #nowplaying
🤦🏼♂️Oh dear...
Could anyone translate this for me? Unfortunately, I don't speak classical music marketing...
Surely a sub-editor could have rémedied the situation
To be honest, that's how I've been feeling in the Australian summer this year...
I think that whoever came up with 'a busker on every corner' didn't quite understand how sound works
Canberra's "Braddon Busking Festival" going well with two buskers plonked 50 metres from one another, drowning each other out and their respective speaker systems creating feedback loops 😂
By the by, I really enjoyed your Reaktion book on Shostakovich. A perfect example of how to convey a great deal of complex music history and biography in a concise but comprehensive fashion: and very readable too!
I'd be tired too if I dated from the third century...
Yon Salvini has a lean and hungry look...
'O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß...'
Ah, so H was in fact HRH...?!
Quod non fecerunt Barberini, fecerunt barbari...
This was superb. Bartók's Wooden Prince is always fun but the two works by Vítězslava Kaprálová were worth the price of admission alone. The Rustic Suite in particular should be repertoire stuff
Ending my brief London sojourn with a bit of Bartók
I take it back..
There are few cities quite as unappealing as London in the rain...
The organ is perhaps an acquired taste... (Would pay to hear a whole morning of rehearsal)
A review: '
Never managed to hear it live...
The magnificent 'Father' Henry Willis organ at Lincoln cathedral (1898). Three manuals and swell, with 3560 pipes, most on the choir screen but with some in the north quire triforium.
