My mental health has struggled since Gramophone fired me after underperforming after going to be with family as my grandmother died.

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Listening to the 'Respair' album by the University of North Texas Wind Symphony after a week of too much Rachmaninov on the radio. Available on Presto Music here:

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Today's listening: Shostakovich Symphony 15, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink: available from Presto Music here: www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...

Heard of Welsh composer Grace Williams? Until yesterday I hadn't. I played played 'Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes' w/ Sinfonia Twyi last night. Fantastic piece by prolific composer not getting enough credit. On @PrestoMusicCom here:

www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...

Today's opera is Bellini's 'The Capulets and the Montagues', currently performed by English Touring Opera
(featuring my friend's daughter, the amazing Sam Price!). Recording=Lead by Roberto Abbado, available on
@PrestoMusicCom
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Today's opera: 'Neither', music by Morton Feldman on a poem by Samuel Beckett. Available on Presto Music here:

www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...

Today's opera is Beethoven's only one: Fidelio, currently playing to rave reviews at the Metropolitan Opera. I'm listening to a London Symphony Orchestra Live recording, led by the late Sir Colin Davis, available on Presto Music:

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Thinking of Bernstein on English music: ‘too much organ voluntary in Lincoln Cathedral, too much coronation in Westminster Abbey, too much lark ascending, too much clodhopping on the f*ck*ng village green’. So today's opera is 'Vanessa', by Samuel Barber. Available from Presto Music
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Holst's 'At the Boar's Head' is today's opera. It's a one act ('Le Prophète' listening creeped into today), which you can get from Presto Music.

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Opera of the day today:

'Le Prophète', by Meyerbeer.

LSO with Sir Mark Elder leading.

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In honour of Ravel's of 150th birthday, the opera of the day today is 'L'heure espagnole', lead by François-Xavier Roth (available on Presto Music
prestomusic.com/classical/pr...).

A classical music magazine with < 20k subscribers is nothing to be proud of. It's time for a change. Print needs to be really good; the current top magazine looks like a slightly spruced up People Magazine.

Don't waste your ad budget on today's classical print.

Today's entry in my self-directed 'remedial opera course' is Handel's 'Acis and Galatea', featuring The Sixteen.

TBH, I struggle with Handel, but he's unavoidable!

@slippedisc.bsky.social is the first account I've followed on Blue Sky!