Andrew Mitchell
@chaconato.bsky.social
🇺🇳 🏳️🌈 classical music audience member since 1976, insufficiently gay, greenish-socialist, CPTSD survivor #InsertTibetanFlag
The new brochure from @musikfabrik.bsky.social takes us into a world of Douglas Adams. youtube.com/shorts/3rTMl...
Ensemble Musikfabrik brochure #augmentedreality #classicalcontemporary #ensemblemusikfabrik
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February 1, 2026 at 9:59 PM
The new brochure from @musikfabrik.bsky.social takes us into a world of Douglas Adams. youtube.com/shorts/3rTMl...
Apple Classical track listing fail number…I’ve lost count. Will ditch it when I have a day to organise replacement.
February 1, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Apple Classical track listing fail number…I’ve lost count. Will ditch it when I have a day to organise replacement.
A French afternoon of elegance and decadence awaits.
February 1, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A French afternoon of elegance and decadence awaits.
Many north Londoners have recently adopted the practice common in the northeast of England to thank the bus driver as they leave the bus and this is a good thing.
February 1, 2026 at 8:12 AM
Many north Londoners have recently adopted the practice common in the northeast of England to thank the bus driver as they leave the bus and this is a good thing.
Spellbinding performance from memory of Stockhausen’s Kontakte by GBSR Duo. Packed out Purcell Room, no cough or sound to be heard even in the two minutes’ closing silence. What a work of subtle drama, sounds as fresh as a Sothic daisy even after all these years.
January 31, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Spellbinding performance from memory of Stockhausen’s Kontakte by GBSR Duo. Packed out Purcell Room, no cough or sound to be heard even in the two minutes’ closing silence. What a work of subtle drama, sounds as fresh as a Sothic daisy even after all these years.
Final weekend to see Thirst at the Wellcome Collection: excellent historical/geographical/cultural survey of water and our problems with it. Wide range of exhibits and videos communicating the science effectively. Exhibition free and was packed out.
January 31, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Final weekend to see Thirst at the Wellcome Collection: excellent historical/geographical/cultural survey of water and our problems with it. Wide range of exhibits and videos communicating the science effectively. Exhibition free and was packed out.
Last time hearing Kontakte live two uncouth types walked out giggling half-way through and a bravo buffoon interrupted the final chord. Hoping for a better audience tonight.
January 31, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Last time hearing Kontakte live two uncouth types walked out giggling half-way through and a bravo buffoon interrupted the final chord. Hoping for a better audience tonight.
If ever there were a time for Argos to open up its excellent distribution network and stores as a platform for UK- and EEA-owned suppliers/retailers/manufacturers it’s absolutely right now.
January 30, 2026 at 2:01 PM
If ever there were a time for Argos to open up its excellent distribution network and stores as a platform for UK- and EEA-owned suppliers/retailers/manufacturers it’s absolutely right now.
Vaguely amused having to explain to younger man who used odd term “high art”: Spears’ ‘I did it again’ has similar sentiments to some early 19th century lieder/musical concepts from baroque/plenty more precedents, and BBC Traitors is reworking of Jacobean revenge tragedy via Moscow State University.
January 30, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Vaguely amused having to explain to younger man who used odd term “high art”: Spears’ ‘I did it again’ has similar sentiments to some early 19th century lieder/musical concepts from baroque/plenty more precedents, and BBC Traitors is reworking of Jacobean revenge tragedy via Moscow State University.
Not yet 11am here, but I woke at 5am so am playing music written post-1600 already. Some nicely balanced registration choices here on the restored Juvigny organ, complete with meantone and A=392 classical.music.apple.com/gb/album/184...
Louis Couperin: The Complete Works, Vol. VI (At the Organ of Notre-Dame, Juvigny) by Jean Rondeau — Apple Music Classical
Listen to Louis Couperin: The Complete Works, Vol. VI (At the Organ of Notre-Dame, Juvigny) by Jean Rondeau. 2025. 36 tracks. 1 hour, 18 minutes.
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January 30, 2026 at 10:08 AM
Not yet 11am here, but I woke at 5am so am playing music written post-1600 already. Some nicely balanced registration choices here on the restored Juvigny organ, complete with meantone and A=392 classical.music.apple.com/gb/album/184...
That time when one asks an online classical music site for a breakdown of statistics which would better represent different eras of music and receives a blunt rejection then they implement it anyway without giving thanks or credit.
January 29, 2026 at 3:51 PM
That time when one asks an online classical music site for a breakdown of statistics which would better represent different eras of music and receives a blunt rejection then they implement it anyway without giving thanks or credit.
In bed with Neighbours. youtu.be/e_aSowDUUaY?...
Neighbours
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January 27, 2026 at 9:58 PM
In bed with Neighbours. youtu.be/e_aSowDUUaY?...
Sadly missed the Leopold’s Hidden Modernism exhibition, but the catalogue arrived today and is as seductive/erotic/disturbing/intriguing as one could hope. Assuming those feelings are what one hopes for.
January 26, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Sadly missed the Leopold’s Hidden Modernism exhibition, but the catalogue arrived today and is as seductive/erotic/disturbing/intriguing as one could hope. Assuming those feelings are what one hopes for.
More Mahler this afternoon, this time DLvdE in the new historic instrument recording from Les Siécles.
January 25, 2026 at 3:21 PM
More Mahler this afternoon, this time DLvdE in the new historic instrument recording from Les Siécles.
Seriously though, either the film will be made without music and singing (unlikely if not impossible), or Tom Ford’s production company is too lazy and uncultured to bother naming in the current marketing splashes any musicians involved in the project. Angry face emoji.
January 25, 2026 at 10:47 AM
Seriously though, either the film will be made without music and singing (unlikely if not impossible), or Tom Ford’s production company is too lazy and uncultured to bother naming in the current marketing splashes any musicians involved in the project. Angry face emoji.
Worried that the Cry to Heaven film will give castrati a bad name.
January 25, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Worried that the Cry to Heaven film will give castrati a bad name.
Am I missing something or is ENO really rehearsing and staging Mahagonny for only three nights?
January 24, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Am I missing something or is ENO really rehearsing and staging Mahagonny for only three nights?
That was magnificent. Unless there really are some alternate realities we’ll never know how this symphony actually sounds, but for now I’ll take the Barshai orchestration any day.
January 24, 2026 at 9:27 PM
That was magnificent. Unless there really are some alternate realities we’ll never know how this symphony actually sounds, but for now I’ll take the Barshai orchestration any day.
It’s Mahler 10, Jim, but not as we know it.
January 24, 2026 at 7:28 PM
It’s Mahler 10, Jim, but not as we know it.
First ever visit to Sad East, surprised/pleased at the massive rake. Will never not be amused by Guardian’s architecture critic thinking fan-shape for seating was for audience to connect with each other, rather than, you know, sight lines that have been common place since the ancient Greeks.
January 24, 2026 at 2:33 PM
First ever visit to Sad East, surprised/pleased at the massive rake. Will never not be amused by Guardian’s architecture critic thinking fan-shape for seating was for audience to connect with each other, rather than, you know, sight lines that have been common place since the ancient Greeks.
Late night Couperin. Somewhat delirious quarter-comma meantone. classical.music.apple.com/gb/album/184...
Louis Couperin: The Complete Works, Vol. V by Jean Rondeau — Apple Music Classical
Listen to Louis Couperin: The Complete Works, Vol. V by Jean Rondeau. 2025. 23 tracks. 1 hour, 15 minutes.
classical.music.apple.com
January 22, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Late night Couperin. Somewhat delirious quarter-comma meantone. classical.music.apple.com/gb/album/184...
Riot Ensemble, at Milton Court. First concert of the year. Well-balanced programme moving from the elusive through the propulsive and exuberant to the contemplative.
January 22, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Riot Ensemble, at Milton Court. First concert of the year. Well-balanced programme moving from the elusive through the propulsive and exuberant to the contemplative.
No relation, icyw. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
This Cultural Life - Katie Mitchell - BBC Sounds
Theatre and opera director Katie Mitchell on her career and formative influences.
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January 22, 2026 at 4:49 PM
No relation, icyw. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
This is good, sung in the Auden/Kallman English translation. bisrecords.lnk.to/2779
Kurt Weill, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, H.K. Gruber - Kurt Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins
Listen to Kurt Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins by Kurt Weill, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, H.K. Gruber.
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January 22, 2026 at 8:55 AM
This is good, sung in the Auden/Kallman English translation. bisrecords.lnk.to/2779