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The world's first daily classical music magazine, launched 1 January 1999 by the late Basil Ramsey and Keith Bramich.
Something new every day, hopefully to inspire you, at https://www.classicalmusicdaily.com/?bsky
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John Dante Prevedini will be leading an online discussion at Classical Music Daily later today, Thursday 28 August 2025, on the subject 'The effect of higher education on classical music and musicians'. All welcome!
www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/08/disc...
#MusicSky #ClassicalMusic #discussion
August 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Guy Johnston, Andrew Manze and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra play the Arthur Bliss Cello Concerto on Onyx Classics - digital album out 25 July. Geoff Pearce's review is here:

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#ClassicalMusic #UK #RPLO #Liverpool #MusicSky #ClassicalMusicSky
July 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Monumental and Breathtaking Proportions: Adam J Sacks visits the Estonian Song and Dance Festival in Tallinn:

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#MusicSky #ClassicalMusicSky #Estonia #Tallinn #ClassicalMusic #song #dance #ChoralMusic #Laulupidu #Baltics
July 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Wales' Presteigne Festival starts in under 6 weeks. Eleanor Alberga is composer-in-residence & the festival marks 50 years since Shostakovich's death:
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‪#MusicSky #ClassicalMusicSky #Wales #Powys #Herefordshire #UK @georgevass.bsky.social
Pic: Ben Ealovega
July 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Today: A Critical Examination - Sandrine Erdely-Sayo writes about the misuse of the terms 'intellectual' and 'artist':

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#MusicSky #ClassicalMusicSky #art #artsky #ClassicalMusic #intellectualism #essay #creativity #authenticity
Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer and music theorist Claudius Ptolemy. 1476 portrait by Justus van Gent and Pedro Berruguete
July 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Chicken Feed? Ron Bierman listens to Mozart and Beethoven in San Diego's Epstein Family Amphitheater. Just published at Classical Music Daily:

www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/07/main...

@619sdld.bsky.social‬ #ClassicalMusicSky #MusicSky #ClassicalMusic #SanDiego #California #USA

Pic: Ken Jacques
July 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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The Girl with the Squeezebox :
Peter King on the career of Latvian accordionist Ksenija Sidorova:
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#MusicSky #ClassicalMusicSky #ClassicalMusic #accordion #Latvia #Argentina #France #Italy #Lithuania #Montenegro #Peru #Russia #UK

Photo © Janis Spigovskis
Ksenija Sidorova playing the accordion. Photo © Janis Spigovskis
July 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Robert McCarney's Resounding Echoes series is back with two new episodes about lesser-known 20th century music:

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#ResoundingEchoes #ClassicalMusicSky #ClassicalMusic #MusicSky #Austria #Germany #Norway #Russia
July 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Classical Music Daily welcomed 4 new writers during June 2025. First articles here:

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July 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Today at Classical Music Daily, Mike Wheeler listens to choral music by Mozart, Orlando Gibbons, David Bednall and Cecilia McDowall:

www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/07/sitw...

Sitwell Singers #MusicSky #ClassicalMusicSky #ChoralMusic #Derby #UK ‪#Mozart #Austria @orlandogibbons.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Nikolas Mavreas' review of Michael Downes' book 'Wagner and the Creation of the Ring' has been quoted on the publisher's website & Amazon :

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This is Nikolas' first review for Classical Music Daily. He's one of 4 new writers who appeared during June 2025.
July 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Gerald Fenech strongly recommends organ and choral music by English composer Herbert Howells on the Regent Records label. '... as virtuosic as one could wish for.' :

www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/05/howe...

#ClassicalMusic #MusicSky #HerbertHowells #Durham #UK #RegentRecords #choir #OrganMusic
Herbert Howells: Psalms and Psalm Preludes. David Hill, organ; The Choir of Durham Cathedral / Daniel Cook. Copyright 2025 Regent Records
May 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Review of Saturday's Elgar Festival choral concert given by the Proteus Ensemble conducted by Stephen Shellard in Pershore Abbey, Worcestershire, UK:

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#MusicSky #ClassicalMusic #Elgar #Worcestershire #UK #choir

Photo: Michael Whitefoot
May 26, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Birmingham Bach Choir and Paul Spicer return to Great Malvern Priory in Worcestershire, UK on Saturday 5 July 2025 for music by Fauré, Poulenc, Debussy and Russell Hepplewhite.

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#Malvern #Worcestershire #Birmingham #UK #France #ClassicalMusic #MusicSky
Paul Spicer
May 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Dated Classical Stoicism?

Paul Bodine reports on a @sdbalboa.bsky.social concert, featuring Anne-Sophie Mutter, Yefim Bronfman & Pablo Ferrandez :
www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/05/mutt...

#ClassicalMusic #MusicSky #violin #cello #piano #SanDiego #USA #Germany #Austria #Russia

Pic: Madi Nguyen
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Yefim Bronfman and Pablo Ferrandez in San Diego on 3 May 2025. Photo © 2025 Madi Nguyen
May 6, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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The 'Alice in Wonderland' Phenomenon - Frances Forbes-Carbines listens to Andrea Bocelli presented using innovative sound technology to an audience of twenty thousand:

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#Italy #Czechia #Moldova #ClassicalMusic #O2Arena #London #UK

Pic © 2025 Luca Rosetti
Andrea Bocelli at the O2 Arena in London. Photo © 2025 Luca Rosetti
May 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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The Performing Artist as Co-creator - watch and listen to our illustrated online discussion, chaired by John Dante Prevedini:

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(runs for nearly 69 mins)

#ClassicalMusic #Jazz #MusicSky #discussion #composers #performers #Czechia #Japan #Russia #UK #USA
The Performing Artist as Co-Creator. John Dante Prevedini (host), Béla Hartmann, Keith Bramich, Halida Dinova, Yekaterina Lebedeva, Stephen Francis Vasta, David Arditti. www.classicalmusicdaily.com - discussion recorded on 23 April 2025
May 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Serenade to Shakespeare: Mike Wheeler has no complaints about the choral contribution to this inspired idea:

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#Shakespeare #SitwellSingers #AlexWyatt #ClassicalMusic #MusicSky #StJohnTheEvangelistDerby #Derby #UK #Australia #Germany #ChoralMusic #piano
Sitwell Singers: Serenade to Shakespeare. Saturday 26th April 2025, 7.30pm. St John the Evangelist Church, Mill Street, Derby DE1 3HZ
May 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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We're inviting everyone to a 1 hour discussion on Zoom about 'The Performing Artist as Co-creator' - all welcome. Starts in less than 90 minutes from now. Details (including start time in your region) here:

www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/04/disc...

#ClassicalMusic #MusicSky #discussion #Zoom
A choir performing
April 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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The Last Days of Immanuel Kant - Donald Nally's professional chamber choir The Crossing gives the first performance of a new work by British composer Gavin Bryars:

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#ClassicalMusic #MusicSky #GavinBryars #TheCrossing #DonaldNally #Germany #USA #UK
The Crossing choir with conductor Donald Nally (bottom right)
April 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Tomorrow we're inviting everyone to a 1 hour discussion on Zoom about 'The Performing Artist as Co-creator' - all welcome. Full details (including the start time in your region) here:

www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/04/disc...
'The Performing Artist as Co-creator' - four different pictures of performing musicians
April 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Just Shut Up and Play?
High profile musicians cancel tours of the USA:
www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/03/usa-...

#ClassicalMusic #USA #Germany #Hungary #Ukraine #Russia #UK

Photo © Nadia F Romanini / ECM Records
András Schiff. Photo © Nadia F Romanini / ECM Records
March 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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'... a very compelling work on so many levels ... it is certainly worth familiarising yourself with this work and composer.' - Geoff Pearce, reviewing a recent Lyrita recording of Grace Williams' Missa Cambrensis:

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#Wales #ClassicalMusic #UK #BBC #Cardiff
Grace Williams: Missa Cambrensis. (c) 2025 Lyrita Recorded Edition
March 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Mike Wheeler is impressed by Dvořák, Prokofiev and Shostakovich from Gabriela Montero and the Prague Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tomáš Brauner at Nottingham Royal Concert Hall :

www.classicalmusicdaily.com/2025/02/prag...

#ClassicalMusic #Prague #Czechia #Russia #Nottingham #UK #MusicSky
Tomáš Brauner with members of the Prague Symphony Orchestra
February 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Gerald Fenech strongly recommends early recordings of orchestral music by Danish composer Rued Langgaard on the Danacord label.

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#ClassicalMusic #Denmark #MusicSky #NewReleases #Danacord #OrchestralMusic @jenscornelius.bsky.social‬
February 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM