Jeremy D.
@jndk.bsky.social
Tutor in medieval English literature, classical music lover. I have two cats and like all cats.
#NowListening to the Van Baerle Trio playing Beethoven's Archduke. Gosh, this is good.
November 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
#NowListening to the Van Baerle Trio playing Beethoven's Archduke. Gosh, this is good.
I really should have put the folded bed linen away in the cupboard, but phase one of the job tired me out, somehow. Now it's a cat bed, needless to say.
October 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I really should have put the folded bed linen away in the cupboard, but phase one of the job tired me out, somehow. Now it's a cat bed, needless to say.
Nina can't resist a fleecy dressing gown.
October 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Nina can't resist a fleecy dressing gown.
Listening to Nielsen's Chaconne Op. 32, and Humoreske-Bagateller Op. 11, in this release of broadcasts by Arne Skjold Rasmussen on Danacord (thanks to Jonathan Woolf's review on MusicWeb International). The sound is a little careworn on top but still vivid, and the performances utterly persuasive.
October 19, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Listening to Nielsen's Chaconne Op. 32, and Humoreske-Bagateller Op. 11, in this release of broadcasts by Arne Skjold Rasmussen on Danacord (thanks to Jonathan Woolf's review on MusicWeb International). The sound is a little careworn on top but still vivid, and the performances utterly persuasive.
I get obsessive sometimes. Having listened a dozen times today to the Pas de deux from Nutcracker in Pletnev's transcription the new album of ballet suites by Gugnin, I've now listened another half dozen times to Pletnev himself (who is phenomenal in the whole suite, unsurprisingly).
October 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I get obsessive sometimes. Having listened a dozen times today to the Pas de deux from Nutcracker in Pletnev's transcription the new album of ballet suites by Gugnin, I've now listened another half dozen times to Pletnev himself (who is phenomenal in the whole suite, unsurprisingly).
As this year's #NationalPoetryDay theme is "play", I thought I'd share this.
October 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
As this year's #NationalPoetryDay theme is "play", I thought I'd share this.
Reminds me of when we got our kitchen done... At least Chloe got a new cardboard box out of it. Otherwise the whole process was incomprehensible.
August 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Reminds me of when we got our kitchen done... At least Chloe got a new cardboard box out of it. Otherwise the whole process was incomprehensible.
Quote with a gif from the last show/movie you watched
August 19, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Quote with a gif from the last show/movie you watched
#NowPlaying Haydn's String Quartet in B flat, Op. 64 no. 3. I don't know the Opp. 50s and 60s quartets as well as those before and after, so it's been lovely getting to know them, albeit at nowhere near the rate of #A-Haydn-A-Day. This one is astonishingly good.
August 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
#NowPlaying Haydn's String Quartet in B flat, Op. 64 no. 3. I don't know the Opp. 50s and 60s quartets as well as those before and after, so it's been lovely getting to know them, albeit at nowhere near the rate of #A-Haydn-A-Day. This one is astonishingly good.
You'll all know this already I imagine, but for a xylophone-free experience, Robin Holloway's orchestration of the Piano Quintet / Sonata for two pianos is rather wonderful, as is the whole album.
August 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
You'll all know this already I imagine, but for a xylophone-free experience, Robin Holloway's orchestration of the Piano Quintet / Sonata for two pianos is rather wonderful, as is the whole album.
Post a book you love from the 1970s.
![Michael Moorcock:
The Dancers at the End of Time.
An Alien Heat [1972];
The Hollow Lands [1974];
The End of All Songs [1976].
Cover illustration of Lord Jagged of Canaria riding his swan chariot by Rodney Matthews for the 1981 Granada omnibus edition.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5yxkbsr7ngtqw55cogtoycvv/bafkreigx33j6lloiz3i7ch4vrxyych6od4sgkvwczfouiay2qxzh7irs44@jpeg)
July 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Post a book you love from the 1970s.
Nina is off to her den with a twig she has bravely caught and murdered. Bea meanwhile thinks the pigeons in our neighbour's tree are up to no good and thinks she had better investigate. (They are sisters, though they don't look like it.)
July 10, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Nina is off to her den with a twig she has bravely caught and murdered. Bea meanwhile thinks the pigeons in our neighbour's tree are up to no good and thinks she had better investigate. (They are sisters, though they don't look like it.)
Our two big kittens (c. 9 months) have been with us long enough to be allowed out in the garden. Nina on the left, Bea on the right.
July 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Our two big kittens (c. 9 months) have been with us long enough to be allowed out in the garden. Nina on the left, Bea on the right.
Not my normal listening, but goodness me this is something special. Act I in particular is out of this world.
![CD Cover: Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Carousel". Nathan Hackmann, Mikaela Bennett, Sierra Boggess, Julian Ovenden, Francesca Chiejina, David Seadon-Young [soloists]; Sinfonia of London, John Wilson.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5yxkbsr7ngtqw55cogtoycvv/bafkreib4z4etdarxlldzsgz4ozz3pghuhzvxkz2krhyokaljehrrncp72m@jpeg)
July 10, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Not my normal listening, but goodness me this is something special. Act I in particular is out of this world.
Also possibly disadvantageous.
June 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Also possibly disadvantageous.
I'm not an expert, but that's probably not ideal in a motor race.
![Team radio - Sainz to Williams
"Something is stopping the car from moving forward".
[BBC Sport].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5yxkbsr7ngtqw55cogtoycvv/bafkreidc6s73simplxlvxp75otqyzrcwx2rqw4codt4opqt43dzmbfjpsq@jpeg)
June 29, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I'm not an expert, but that's probably not ideal in a motor race.
Quote a record that you found in your parents' collection when you were young
June 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Quote a record that you found in your parents' collection when you were young
I wonder if you know this sonnet by Herbert Garrod, a rather obscure late-Victorian scholar and poet? It's certainly going for the Romantic, post-Miltonic sublime; I feel it has a kind of magnificent awfulness about it.
![ON LISTENING TO BEETHOVEN’S CHORAL SYMPHONY.
Master! whose hearing, closed to grosser sound,
Quickened for all the subtler harmonies
Of soul-entrancing chords, e'en as the eyes
Of sightless Milton saw beyond the bound
Of earth, to where the white-stoled host surround
The holiest of the holy, in what guise,
Of bird or seraph, through the immensities
Of interstellar avenues profound
Hied thy bright spirit, lifting its grand refrain
Up, up through throbbing ether, with the beat
Of mighty wings, to where the listening throng
Wait breathless, while glad throats take up the strain,
When string and trumpet fail, and at the feet
Of God lay tribute of immortal song?
[First published in] The Academy, March 27th, 1886.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5yxkbsr7ngtqw55cogtoycvv/bafkreicyj533vlbj5w6ta7siv32wf3qszcnnnsmr3nhz45uwgpciiwawyq@jpeg)
June 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I wonder if you know this sonnet by Herbert Garrod, a rather obscure late-Victorian scholar and poet? It's certainly going for the Romantic, post-Miltonic sublime; I feel it has a kind of magnificent awfulness about it.
Beerhoven's Op. 70 no. 2 with the fab Sitkovetsky Trio and a glass of white wine. It's hot, I've managed to write some tutorial reports: you know what, I deserve a treat.
June 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Beerhoven's Op. 70 no. 2 with the fab Sitkovetsky Trio and a glass of white wine. It's hot, I've managed to write some tutorial reports: you know what, I deserve a treat.
Yup:
Now listening to Brendel playing Haydn's wonderful Andante con variazioni in F minor (Un piccolo divertimento) in December 2008, from the Farewell Concerts album on Decca. (Doesn't seem to be on streaming services, but Presto has the download.)
A few tears, I won't deny.
Now listening to Brendel playing Haydn's wonderful Andante con variazioni in F minor (Un piccolo divertimento) in December 2008, from the Farewell Concerts album on Decca. (Doesn't seem to be on streaming services, but Presto has the download.)
A few tears, I won't deny.
June 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Yup:
Now listening to Brendel playing Haydn's wonderful Andante con variazioni in F minor (Un piccolo divertimento) in December 2008, from the Farewell Concerts album on Decca. (Doesn't seem to be on streaming services, but Presto has the download.)
A few tears, I won't deny.
Now listening to Brendel playing Haydn's wonderful Andante con variazioni in F minor (Un piccolo divertimento) in December 2008, from the Farewell Concerts album on Decca. (Doesn't seem to be on streaming services, but Presto has the download.)
A few tears, I won't deny.
Just listened to the Salomon Quartet, very touching in Haydn's rather elusive last Andante for string quartet. And while it would be lovely if he'd been able to complete Op. 103, there's something appropriate in ending with one last, probing and unpredictable minuet. I let the Mosaïques play us out.
June 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Just listened to the Salomon Quartet, very touching in Haydn's rather elusive last Andante for string quartet. And while it would be lovely if he'd been able to complete Op. 103, there's something appropriate in ending with one last, probing and unpredictable minuet. I let the Mosaïques play us out.
Here are four of my favourite recordings of anything other than the symphonies. I fear I've listed all these before, but I'm loyal.
June 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Here are four of my favourite recordings of anything other than the symphonies. I fear I've listed all these before, but I'm loyal.
