🎵 Music for 13 February 2026
"Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 "Pastoral": I. Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande. Allegro ma non troppo (2019 Remastered Version)" by Bruno Walter & Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No.6 'Pastorale'
Bruno Walter's 1958 recording with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra.
Revisiting Drafts as a way to post to Micro.blog 🤔
🎵 Music for 11 February 2026
"Pagan Symphony: I. Tranquillo molto lento sostenuto" by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & Vernon Handley
Granville Bantock - Pagan Symphony
Continuing a mini-exploration of listening to some English symphonies.
Watched: Breathless, 1983 - ★★★★ 🎥
🎵 My top weekly artists as logged by last.fm: Arc Ensemble (28 plays), Anaïs Mitchell (19), Ole Schmidt, LSO, Manning, Minty, Mitchinson, Thomas (8), Jonathan Powell, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin & Johannes Kalitzke (7), Stokowski, Houston Symphony Orchestra (4)
Location check in — 🗺️ The Bunch Of Grapes
Pints of Cwrw Otley Oxymoron and Druid’s Circle 🍺
Great meal, then an espresso martini 🍸
🔎 Zoom in
The T20 World Cup has started. Some early listening to Pakistan 🇵🇰 v 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🏏
🎵 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 💿
🎵 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 Gothic’
Oma, Borough Market. Wonderful meal here Sunday evening, just found Grace Dent’s review in The Guardian 🇬🇷🔗
