๐ต Music for 06 February 2026
"Shostakovich: Symphony No.11 In G Minor, Op. 103, "The Year 1905" - 1. The Palace Square" by Stokowski, Houston Symphony Orchestra
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 11 In G Minor, Op. 103, "The Year 1905"
This is one of the first recordings of Shostakovich's music I owned on CD, along with Bernstein versions of Symphonies 5, 6 and 9. I still have the CDs and still listen to all of them, although usually in digitised form ๐ฟ
๐ต Music for 05 February 2026
"Symphony No. 1, 'The Gothic': I. Allegro assai" by Ole Schmidt, LSO, Manning, Minty, Mitchinson, Thomas
Havergal Brian - Symphony No. 1, 'The Gothicโ
Oma, Borough Market. Wonderful meal here Sunday evening, just found Grace Dentโs review in The Guardian ๐ฌ๐ท๐
Six Nations fare ๐
Need some rationing ๐๐โท๏ธโฝ๏ธ
Six Nations starts tonight with France ๐ซ๐ท v ๐ฎ๐ช Ireland. Then England ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ v ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Wales on Saturday ๐
ICC Under-19 Menโs Cricket World Cup Final is tomorrow - England ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ v ๐ฎ๐ณ India in Harare ๐
The Winter Olympics has started - but the opening ceremony in Milan is tomorrow evening.
ICC Menโs T20 World Cup starts in India and Sri Lanka early Saturday ๐
Plus Premier League โฝ๏ธ
๐ The Fire Doors, The Dublin Castle review - Field Music assume the role of Jim Morrison and Co ๐ต
Unaffected Doors homage from the most unlikely band
๐ Keats Bar at The Globe
Timothy Taylorโs Landlord ๐บ
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Barbican Library. ๐
Blondie in Camera 1978 Exhibition ๐ต
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Two days in London, away from Wales. But Iโve ended up having Abergavenny goatsโ cheese for breakfast each morning ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Old-fashioned basement bar at Wigmore Hall๐ท
Wigmore Hall. ๐
Wigmore Hall
Here for a Sunday afternoon concert ๐ต
ARC Ensemble
ALBERTO HEMSI
1898-1975โจ
3 Egyptian Dances Op. 11
Mรฉditation Op. 16
3 Arie Antiche (dalle Coplas Sefardies) for string quartet Op. 30
PAUL BEN-HAIM
1897-1984โจ Clarinet Quintet Op. 31a
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Radical Reprint: Who’s afraid of the A Word?
๐ต My top weekly artists as logged byย last.fm: Arc Ensemble (17 plays), Dove Ellis (11), Phish (10), Mandrake Handshake (9), Black String (6)
Walking away ๐ท
Literally got back row seats to see The Unthanks at the Barbican ๐ต
