Aksel Tollåli
@akseltoll.bsky.social
At the crossroads of 20th century musicology and rampant homosexuality. Dispensary of musical opinion. Classical music critic and editor.
Occasional knitting.
akseltollaali (at) gmail . com
Occasional knitting.
akseltollaali (at) gmail . com
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jenter vil ikke ha gutter, jenter vil ha nynorsk
November 20, 2025 at 6:57 AM
jenter vil ikke ha gutter, jenter vil ha nynorsk
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Universal first-name basis is a great and wondrous gift that the Nordics are offering to the world, that we've been impatiently waiting for like half a century for them to pick up.
November 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Universal first-name basis is a great and wondrous gift that the Nordics are offering to the world, that we've been impatiently waiting for like half a century for them to pick up.
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Happening right now: BWV 1178 and BWV 1179!
(Bach compositions with BWV numbers as high as this are typically highly unstable and decay rapidly, releasing fugal radiation in the process. Catch them before it happens.)
(Bach compositions with BWV numbers as high as this are typically highly unstable and decay rapidly, releasing fugal radiation in the process. Catch them before it happens.)
Two newly discovered Bach keyboard works are premiering in 1 hour
November 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Happening right now: BWV 1178 and BWV 1179!
(Bach compositions with BWV numbers as high as this are typically highly unstable and decay rapidly, releasing fugal radiation in the process. Catch them before it happens.)
(Bach compositions with BWV numbers as high as this are typically highly unstable and decay rapidly, releasing fugal radiation in the process. Catch them before it happens.)
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Two newly discovered Bach keyboard works are premiering in 1 hour
November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Two newly discovered Bach keyboard works are premiering in 1 hour
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feel like pure shit just want them back x www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiPJ...
Concerto in D minor for 2 oboes, RV 535 - Vivaldi
YouTube video by VivaldiGuys
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2024 at 9:50 AM
feel like pure shit just want them back x www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiPJ...
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With its recent associations with Lydia Tar and Jeffrey Epstein, do we need to rehabilitate Mahler 5's public image?
November 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
With its recent associations with Lydia Tar and Jeffrey Epstein, do we need to rehabilitate Mahler 5's public image?
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“Queer theory…is in its flop era.” My review of Kay Gabriel’s PERVERTS is out today in @thebaffler.com. Kay’s book is a funny and true antidote to the cheap sentiment of bad queer discourse, a reckoning with sex/gender as pleasure center and system requiring defeat. thebaffler.com/latest/we-wa...
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
“Queer theory…is in its flop era.” My review of Kay Gabriel’s PERVERTS is out today in @thebaffler.com. Kay’s book is a funny and true antidote to the cheap sentiment of bad queer discourse, a reckoning with sex/gender as pleasure center and system requiring defeat. thebaffler.com/latest/we-wa...
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du er ikke målgruppen
November 13, 2025 at 6:56 AM
du er ikke målgruppen
Noen må nesten sette foten ned og si NEI til spanjolene snart
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Noen må nesten sette foten ned og si NEI til spanjolene snart
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Excellent news - keep up the good work everybody
November 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Excellent news - keep up the good work everybody
The children yearn for the Catalan Pyrenees
November 12, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The children yearn for the Catalan Pyrenees
Trapped! on a bus going through Central Catalonia with about 40 15-year-olds and all their attendant smells and odours.
November 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Trapped! on a bus going through Central Catalonia with about 40 15-year-olds and all their attendant smells and odours.
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God kveld fra meg og denne biten av en altertavle som viser apostelen Bartolomeus' martyrdød ✌️
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
God kveld fra meg og denne biten av en altertavle som viser apostelen Bartolomeus' martyrdød ✌️
God kveld fra meg og denne biten av en altertavle som viser apostelen Bartolomeus' martyrdød ✌️
November 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
God kveld fra meg og denne biten av en altertavle som viser apostelen Bartolomeus' martyrdød ✌️
Birthday vermut 💃💃
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Birthday vermut 💃💃
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
On Giorgia Meloni’s favourite conductor, for @vanmagazin.bsky.social
van-magazine.com/mag/beatrice...
van-magazine.com/mag/beatrice...
Is Beatrice Venezi’s Appointment Really Based on Merit?
Everywhere you look, politics are seeping into opera. In New York, Metropolitan Opera General Manager Peter Gelb, accompanied onstage by Democratic senator Chuck Schumer, gave a rousing opening-night ...
van-magazine.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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Det er få kommentatorer i rikspressen som liker å fortelle folk hva de bør gjøre med mer enn @joacimlund.bsky.social - men et sted går grensen, og den går tydeligvis ved Spotify. Joacim er selvsagt ikke alene - avmakt preger hvordan vi ser på oss selv som lyttere:
www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...
www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...
November 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Det er få kommentatorer i rikspressen som liker å fortelle folk hva de bør gjøre med mer enn @joacimlund.bsky.social - men et sted går grensen, og den går tydeligvis ved Spotify. Joacim er selvsagt ikke alene - avmakt preger hvordan vi ser på oss selv som lyttere:
www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...
www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...
My review is out (sans shoe mention, sadly :( ) www.aftenposten.no/kultur/i/OoL...
November 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
My review is out (sans shoe mention, sadly :( ) www.aftenposten.no/kultur/i/OoL...
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helveds makt og list.
November 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
helveds makt og list.
Oh, and massive shoutout to Mélisande's shoe that flew off her foot last night during act 4 and landed right in the middle of the last desk of violas
Seeing Pelléas tonight and I absolutely cannot stop humming Mes longs cheveux
November 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Oh, and massive shoutout to Mélisande's shoe that flew off her foot last night during act 4 and landed right in the middle of the last desk of violas
Wie einst im Mai. youtu.be/70qgpUAHAw0?...
Jessye Norman; "Allerseelen"; Richard Strauss
YouTube video by Lieder Greats
youtu.be
November 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Wie einst im Mai. youtu.be/70qgpUAHAw0?...
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it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
November 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
Seeing Pelléas tonight and I absolutely cannot stop humming Mes longs cheveux
November 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Seeing Pelléas tonight and I absolutely cannot stop humming Mes longs cheveux
More contemporary music concerts with picnic seating!
October 31, 2025 at 6:36 PM
More contemporary music concerts with picnic seating!