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Jacob 🇵🇸

4 months

When I was 11, I put this stuff into my ears after reading about how Odysseus' crew plugged their ears with wax to escape the Sirens. I got such a bad earache that I got sent to the doctors. The wax took a week to come out.

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why the hell would you package cheese like this

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

9 months

Last night I was punched in the face, kicked between the legs and thrown to the ground by cops at a peaceful pro-Palestine rally at Port Botany. I spent nine hours in an overcrowded cell, forced to curl up into a ball on the concrete floor due to the lack of space.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

9 months

I was charged under NSW's draconian new protest laws, with a maximum sentence of 2 years jail time, or a fine of $22k. Our government has revealed the extent of its moral bankruptcy.

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9 months

My hearing will take place on the 15th of January. We will not let this abominable repression silence us. We will keep fighting until Palestine is free, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

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@murmurations24

9 months

Peacefully protesting a genocide is deamed violence, and police brutality so excessive that other cops were trying to rein the worst perpetrators in is praised by our premier.

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2 years

The gatekeeping of music is so sad. I tweeted about what Bach means to me, and was qrted by three strangers calling me an idiot for not appreciating Bach the “correct way”. Some elitists want as few people to listen to classical music as possible, so they can feel superior.

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@murmurations24

3 years

Mozart is fast becoming my favourite composer. I used to believe that the darker and more chaotic a piece of art was, the more profound it was, but I’ve come to believe that it takes just as much skill to create something authentically happy and ordered in a world full of pain.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

2 years

@biggestjoel Your beard is more unkempt than Hasan’s (this makes you the better socialist)

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

2 years

Sure, sex sounds cool I guess… but have you heard the ending of Mahler’s second symphony??

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@murmurations24

1 year

The Tomb of Claudio Monteverdi!!!! I wasn’t looking for it, so coming across it was a delightful surprise.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

2 years

Bach’s music is so sublime, so perfect, that it always boggles my mind that a human being wrote it. It feels like the Goldberg Variations have always existed, written into the fabric of the universe, and us humans merely discovered them.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

2 years

A Mahler Symphony can contain the entire world, but a Bruckner Symphony can contain the heavens themselves.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

3 years

It’s such a shame that Mozart’s masterful 39th Symphony is not as popular as his 40th and 41st. In my opinion, it’s the most beautiful of all of them- the woodwinds sound so pure, and the texture is truly radiant. It brings to mind an illuminated manuscript in its loveliness.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

2 years

Bernstein’s Mahler is too hot, Abbado’s is too cold, but Kubelik’s is juuuuuust right :)

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

2 years

I’m literally a teenager! If my appreciation of classical music sounds naive it’s because I only started listening to it recently. Treating people who are just embarking on their musical journey with contempt only ensures that classical music will fade into obscurity.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

1 year

Strauss’ Four Last Songs made me tear up again today. The final flute trills at the end of Im Abendrot are like the fluttering wings of cherubim softly wafting the soul into heaven. Few other passages of music sound so magical to me.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

1 year

I am incapable of listening to Strauss' "Morgen!" without tearing up. I was listening to it on my way to Uni this morning and started sobbing in the middle of the footpath. Maybe I should wait until I'm home to listen to it again.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

1 year

No matter how many times I listen to it, the opening of Im Abendrot makes me feel choked up. This was my first recording of the Four Last Songs, and it’s still a favourite. Schwarzkopf doesn’t have the power of Norman, but her performance is so exquisitely wistful and delicate.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

7 months

Is there any valedictory work as perfect as Strauss' Four Last Songs? The 84-year-old composer discovers a pathos and profundity which surpasses all his prior masterpieces. It's a farewell to life as moving as Mahler's Ninth, but a full hour shorter.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

2 years

Otto Klemperer’s 1967 recording of Mahler’s Ninth with the New Philharmonia Orchestra is one of my favourite performances of anything ever. After listening to it today, I was once again left emotionally devastated and exhausted by the end. There’s no other recording like it.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

2 years

Schubert’s Sonata D.960 makes me sob every time I hear it. I can think of very few other works with such a devastating combination of earnest, disarming sincerity, and cosmic, transcendent mysticism. Schubert is unveiling the unspeakable mysteries of the soul.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

9 months

Thank-you for all your messages of support ✊ I’m feeling refreshed and revitalised. I’ve got a lawyer, I’ve talked to representatives, I’ve coordinated my next steps, and I am not backing down. Long live Palestine!!

Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

9 months

Last night I was punched in the face, kicked between the legs and thrown to the ground by cops at a peaceful pro-Palestine rally at Port Botany. I spent nine hours in an overcrowded cell, forced to curl up into a ball on the concrete floor due to the lack of space.

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@murmurations24

10 months

It’s my 21st birthday! I’m celebrating with one of the most joyful of all symphonies. Szell and Cleveland’s Beethoven is in a league of its own, combining warmth and precision like no other cycle.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

2 years

The best thing about classical music is that there is ALWAYS more stuff out there.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

1 year

The first Mahler album I ever heard, and the piece that hooked me into classical music.

Andy K (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️

@MsMahler7

1 year

Quote tweet with the album that changed your life

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

2 years

My New Year’s resolution is to learn how to play the piano!

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

1 year

I have no idea why everyone is arguing about Bartok on my timeline, or how it started. I love Bartok deeply, but I don’t mind at all if you aren’t moved or entertained by his music! Anyway, if anyone needs me I’ll be listening to his Third Piano Concerto in my room.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

1 year

Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony is the ultimate piece of comfort music for me. It’s nice to have something constant and constantly beautiful and blissful to lean on in times of instability and confusion in my life.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

2 years

Listened to Bach's St John Passion this morning in preparation for Easter. That opening chorus is SO terrifying- the dissonant, wincing oboes, whirling snarling strings and howling chorus sound nearly demonic- no music better captures the existential horror of the crucifixion.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

2 years

I’ve been letting Mozart listen to some Schoenberg. He loves it.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

1 year

I finally listened to Holst’s “The Planets” in full today! What an awesome masterpiece… Each movement has its own character, colour palette and atmosphere. My favourite is Saturn, I love how ominous and shadowy it is, and the trombones are very formidable!

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

1 year

Listening to Strauss’ Four Last Songs after his Symphonia Domestica really impressed upon me Strauss’ emotional range. The Symphonia Domestica is such a silly, rambunctious piece, whereas the Four Last Songs are so heartbreakingly beautiful that I never fail to get choked up.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

2 years

A few bars into Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 131 I started weeping- all the pent up frustration and loneliness of isolation poured out of me. I feel cleansed by this superhuman masterpiece.

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@murmurations24

1 year

I didn’t want to study this afternoon, so instead I curled up in an old armchair with Pope’s Iliad, and listened to Klemperer’s epic performance of Mahler 9. It was a sublime hour and a half, but I was left teary and emotionally devastated.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

2 years

Mozart’s Mass in C minor seems to live in the shadow of his legendary Requiem- but it’s a gripping masterpiece in its own right. The big, grim choral movements owe a lot to JS Bach, whom Mozart had recently discovered, but the arias are straight from the world of opera.

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@murmurations24

2 years

It’s so wild to me that Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique was written just 3 years after Beethoven’s death- it sounds so totally different in its conception and ethos. If I had to name a single composition that marked the beginning of the romantic period in music- I would pick this

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

2 years

I can always depend on Mozart to make a good day even better, and console me on a bad day. The 19th Piano Concerto KV459 is one of my favourite of his creations- the woodwinds are bright and colourful, and the counterpoint in the finale makes me beam with joy.

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@murmurations24

2 years

This is the first night of performance at the reopened Sydney Opera House Concert Hall! So excited to hear Mahler 2 in concert!

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

2 years

The opening of Brahms Symphony 4 gives me shivers every time. Those slinky string arpeggios, the off-kilter woodwinds and that chilly melody, swaying like a colossal bell has as much neurotic decadence as a lake of absinthe, and as much classical poise as the Parthenon.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

1 year

Oistrakh! I’ve never heard another violinist convey so fiercely the sublimity of Brahms’ Violin Concerto. He gives the double-stops a vicious bite, and soars over the peaks and valleys of the first movement. In the finale, he is weighty and rustic, ablaze with raw, simple joy.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

1 year

Barbirolli’s performance of Mahler 6 with the NPO is the darkest interpretation I’ve ever heard. The opening is genuinely scary, I can’t get the cellos out of my head- it’s the sound of Yeats’ rough beast, slouching towards Bethlehem to be born.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

2 years

No-one comforts me more than Schubert, when I’m at my lowest. The Fantasy in F minor is one of the most heartbreaking pieces I’ve ever heard. It’s the kind of piece only Schubert could write, simultaneously a personal confession and a fevered vision of a vast spiritual cosmos.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

2 years

I love how transposable Bach is. Because his music is so abstract and architectural and unconcerned with timbre or colour, you can pretty much play it on whatever instruments you like, and it still sounds sublime.

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@murmurations24

2 years

I used to think that the great Mozart piano concertos started with 20. Then I decided that they started from 14. Now, I think that they’re all great!

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@murmurations24

2 years

Schubert’s piano sonatas are my comfort music. Every single one is a piece of such tenderness and sympathy. Schubert understands grief and suffering so well, and yet keeps looking for the beautiful, the sublime and the good in the world. D. 960 inspires me so much for this reason

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

1 year

This recording of Tchaikovsky’s Pathetique Symphony is my go-to album when I need a good cry. Fricsay conducts as if possessed by the spirit of the composer, channeling his inconsolable pain, and with loving caresses, conjuring every tear, every drop of blood from the score.

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@murmurations24

1 year

Karajan and the BPO's legendary Prokofiev Fifth is colossal, a grand monumental portrait of some classical demigod. The Tam-Tams shake the firmament, the brass bellow from the underworld, the strings pulse and wail like a great tragic threnody. I'm left thunderstruck.

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@murmurations24

1 year

One of my favourite albums. This is THE definitive Das Lied von der Erde for me. The two soloists soar with effortless beauty, the contrapuntal lines are so clear, the orchestral playing so crisp and colourful, and Klemperer’s conducting is darkly majestic. Truly sublime.

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@murmurations24

1 year

Bernini’s Rape of Proserpina. Bernini is a sorcerer. He’s made solid marble flow like living water, and created warm flesh out of cold stone.

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@murmurations24

1 year

Look what I found at the record store today! The entire Ring Cycle, performed by Furtwängler and La Scala, for 18 Australian Dollars! What a find!

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@murmurations24

1 year

Wearing my Schumanns and Brahms shirt today :)

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@murmurations24

1 year

Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto was the piece that ‘unlocked’ the composer for me. Its bracing, but strangely lyrical, melodies blossom organically out of its rigorous dodecaphony, proving the brilliance of Schoenberg’s harmonic system.

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@murmurations24

11 months

Sibelius’s Fourth Symphony is not just my favourite Sibelius Symphony, it’s one of my favourite symphonies ever. It’s a perfect example of how the composer combines economy of means and clarity of expression with such profundity of feeling.

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@murmurations24

2 years

Brahms’ Piano Concerto 2 might very well be the greatest concerto in the standard repertoire. It’s certainly my favourite. Mozart 14-27 are all sublime, and Beethoven’s are legendary, but the expressive power, and technical brilliance of this piece is mindblowing.

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@murmurations24

9 months

@diva_the_doll Thanks Charlie ✊ I hope you are doing ok :)

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@murmurations24

1 year

I don’t think anyone sang Mahler as well as Dame Janet Baker. The intensity she gives to “die Kinder hinaus” in “In diesem Wetter” is chilling, and the rapturous tranquility of “Und ruh’ in einem stillen Gebiet” in “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen” is unmatched.

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@murmurations24

1 year

What’s an album you fell in love with instantly on first listen?

Andy K (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️

@MsMahler7

1 year

What’s an album you fell in love with instantly on first listen?

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@murmurations24

2 years

The opening chorus of the Johannes Passion still terrifies me. The churning strings, the dissonant oboes, the wailing voices perfectly sets the tone for a musical drama of visceral tangibility and apocalyptic connotation.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

10 months

Kleiber’s legendary Brahms 4 with the VPO was the recording with which I first discovered the piece. I was nervous to return to it, for fear that it wouldn’t be as magnificent I remembered it. Thankfully, my fears were invalid! It’s just as rich, taut and vicious as I remember.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

11 months

I just finished Maazel’s legendary Sibelius cycle with the VPO. These are urgent, assertive, eruptive performances. The rich Wiener strings and brass make Bruckner’s influence on Sibelius evident. It’s well worth a listen for die-hard Sibelians, and for newcomers to the composer.

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@murmurations24

2 years

Happy Birthday to one of the coolest composers of them all. Stravinsky is like the David Bowie of classical music- his music is colourful, ironic, unique, rhythmic, sexy, camp, and in a state of constant reinvention.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

1 year

We came across the house of Maria Callas on our walk back from the Grottoes of Catullus! Another of the serendipitous little surprises that have come to define my trip. I shall have to listen to one of her performances tonight. Any recommendations?

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@murmurations24

2 years

Unpopular opinion (?): I prefer Mozart’s Mass in C minor to his Requiem in D minor (but both are among my favourite pieces ever)

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@murmurations24

1 year

I’m so thankful for the music in my life. Today was a hard day, but listening to this gorgeous performance of Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony tonight cheered me up so much. The VPO strings are like a warm hug.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

2 years

@etherealmyths I think the Odyssey TECHNICALLY passes the Bechdel test with the scene between Nausicaa and Athene (disguised as her nurse)

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@murmurations24

2 years

Mahler’s Fifth Symphony is perhaps the perfect introduction to the composer’s craft. It demonstrates all the things Mahler does best- boiling emotional climaxes, flamboyant orchestration, operatic melodies, ecstatic counterpoint, jubilant dances, and a glorious conclusion!

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

9 months

Resistance is justified when Palestine is occupied! 🍉

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@murmurations24

10 months

Böhm’s Vienna Pastoral Symphony deserves all its rapturous praise. It’s a generous, soaring rendition of this most rapt and joyous of symphonies. The VPO manages to sound rich and powerful, while still glowing with warmth and life.

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@murmurations24

1 year

An astonishingly good Mahler First! Boulez is sensitive to every detail of the score, but never loses sight of the big picture. It's a sweeping, poetic performance, with some truly radiant playing from the CSO, particularly the trumpets!

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@murmurations24

2 years

Elgar’s Cello Concerto is still one of the most overwhelming pieces of art I’ve ever experienced. The low, rasping E minor chords of the opening are like raw gashes, pouring out warm blood in dark surges over the audience- a kind of brutal Eucharist, a communion of suffering.

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1 year

Schubert’s late works are a place of refuge for me. Sonata D. 959 is so consoling because it understands and incorporates the most agonising, blind despair, the howl of lonely desperation. And yet, it is able to follow the golden thread of hope out of the labyrinth of loneliness.

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@murmurations24

2 years

Friendly reminder that 18th century critics and aestheticists said that Bach was “unnatural” “contrived” and “intellectual” as well. If you don’t like Boulez, that’s ok! But don’t pretend his music is somehow an aberration from a tradition that is largely a retroactive construct.

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@murmurations24

2 years

I’m continuing to prepare for my Mahler 2 concert on Wednesday with this iconic recording by Bernstein and the NYP, which I’m hearing for the first time.

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@murmurations24

2 years

I wish I understood harmony better. I can listen to a Bach fantasia, or an act of Wagner, or a Scriabin Sonata, and know that something beautiful and exhilarating is happening, but I don’t know WHY that sequence of chords excites me so.

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@murmurations24

2 years

I avoided Elgar for so long, out of distaste for the Empire with which he was so associated, but now I feel rather silly for cheating myself out of such sublime music. His First Symphony is resplendent; Brahms 3 meets Wagner’s Meistersinger meets Westminster Bridge at dawn!!

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@murmurations24

1 year

Friday night at the Symphony!

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@murmurations24

2 years

The perfect music for a chilly morning in bed. What are your favourite recordings of Brahms 4? I’m looking for more performances to try out.

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@murmurations24

2 years

Shostakovich is one of my favourite composers, but sometimes I think his fans allow his biography to obscure his music’s value. His 10th Symphony is a mind-blowing masterpiece, because it’s expressively intense and structurally flawless, not because it’s “about Stalin”.

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@murmurations24

2 years

Franck’s Symphony in D minor exhilarates me. The melodies are all so lush and exciting, and the brass is pungent and powerful! The grand return of the Allegretto theme in the Finale makes my heart soar. It saddens me how much this piece has fallen out of favour.

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@murmurations24

6 months

Gooood morning! I haven’t listened to this recording for months, but it’s a knock-out! It’s more Germanic than Austrian, driven by dark orchestral forces and Böhm’s unsentimental force. The finale is a tidal wave, surging inexorably forward towards a crushing coda.

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1 year

Karajan’s and the BPO’s live Mahler 9 is a performance of Apollonian nobility. The Berliner strings sound sublime in the finale, like an ocean of golden light, and the trombones ring out with magisterial force. It’s a recording which has really grown on me…

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@murmurations24

2 years

The performance of “Ich bin der welt abhanden gekommen”, with Janet Baker and John Barbirolli, is one of my absolute favourite recordings. I rarely listen to it too anymore though, it’s so sad…

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1 year

Bluebeard’s Castle was the first opera I listened to in full, and I couldn’t have asked for a better introduction to the genre. Despite its short length, it builds an overwhelming sense of atmosphere, a cavernous dreamscape full of mists and heavy shadows.

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11 months

Chamber music is all too often stereotyped as refined, subtle and miniature. Brahms’ Piano Quartet in G minor shows how it’s possible to compose music of symphonic scale and operatic emotional range within a chamber music context. The intimate meets the infinite.

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8 months

Mahler’s Third Symphony is a sprawling paean to nature in all its manifold extravagance. You can hear every living thing, the beautiful and the beastly, blossom towards heaven, burgeoning with the same sublime impulse. A divine whole is harmonised from the most disparate elements

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1 year

Solti’s VPO Salome is as gory, decadent and spectacular as I could ask for! The VPO horns bloom and swell like overripe fruits, the woodwinds cackle, the strings shriek, the trombones bellow. However, Nilsson is the star here- combining sensual allure with terrifying intensity.

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2 years

What are your favourite recordings of Mozart’s Requiem? Mine is probably Savall’s- it’s so visceral and intense!

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@murmurations24

2 years

This Mahler 4 is one of the best I’ve ever heard! The interpretation is crisp, accented and unsentimental, with classical elegance combined with weird, sinister menace. The final note of the symphony is terrifying. This is Mahler’s vision of the work at its most confronting.

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@murmurations24

1 year

Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1 is the perfect combination of majesty and turbulence, particularly in this colossal performance by Arrau, Giulini, and the incomparable Philharmonia Orchestra of the 1960s. I’ve rarely heard a more beautiful and sublime vision of this piece.

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@murmurations24

2 years

Brahms’ Fourth Symphony is still the most perfect piece of music ever to cross my ears. Whenever I listen to it I feel purged and cleaned of all the anxiety and tedium of the mundane.

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1 year

I split from my class to find the place where Richard Wagner died. Sadly, the museum was closed, but at least there was a plaque!

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2 years

After months of avoiding it, on the advice of one American critic, who shall not be named, I finally listened to Barbirolli’s Mahler 9. This is it- I’ve never been so moved by a performance before.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

1 year

I’ve never heard the VPO sound scarier than in Maazel’s Sibelius Fourth. The opening throws us into a grim, frozen wilderness, jagged icebergs rising out of a sunless sea. The cellos and basses have a grainy, grim sound, rumbling like some primal beast out of the abyss.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

6 months

Mozart’s Piano Concertos represent a glorious, incorruptible legacy. No-one understood the genre quite like him. They’re not just dialogues between piano and orchestra, they’re intimate conversations in which every instrument gets their chance to make a confession.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

2 years

Tchaikovsky Symphony 4, and Brahms’ Piano Concerto 1 with @sydsymph and @STrpceski !!! Absolutely sublime

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

2 years

The originality of each of Bach’s cantatas is mind-blowing. Every time I listen to a new one, I’m totally enchanted by the melodic beauty, the orchestral colour, the emotional expressivity, and the contrapuntal rigour

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

1 year

How lucky are we to have a recording of Mahler 9 in gorgeous stereo sound by the same man who premiered the piece? One of my most prized possessions.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

2 years

Happy New Year from Bach!! I appreciate you all, and have met so many lovely people on this platform this year. Here’s to much more reading, listening and drawing in 2023 :)

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

2 years

My favourite Das Lied von der Erde! Klemperer points to the abyss with the lamenting harshness of an Old Testament prophet, the Philharmonia plays with clarity, colour and character, and the two soloists pour their souls into every line, while maintaining beauty of tone.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

2 years

The opening melody from Brahms’ piano trio in B major might just be my favourite melody of all. It’s so magnificent and majestic, but also so comforting and tender. I’ve never heard anything quite like it- the music just GLOWS and warms me up from the inside.

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Jacob 🇵🇸

@murmurations24

9 months

#SpotifyWrapped no surprises here!

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