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Moon Pavilion
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I really should be off social media, and playing the piano - with feeling
Richmond-upon-Thames/Ayrshire, Scotland.
The bridges are usually vermilion, but I love the addition of turquoise here.
Kawazokoike lake, Osaka
December 11, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Twilight in Arashiyama, #Kyoto
Remove the cars and we could have a Japanese print
December 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Love #Japan , been visiting it for quite a few years but “the fly in the ointment” still remains…
December 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The fight is on
December 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Anyone for a bamboo forest? #Arashiyama #Kyoto
December 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Symphony No. 2, the "Copernican," Op. 31 (II Symfonia "Kopernikowska") Henryk Górecki.
“Awesome” would be the way to describe the second movement.
December 6, 2025 at 4:25 AM
I feel it’s the kind of thing Del Boy would drink, when he was not on Tia Maria and lucozade .
December 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
November 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
One of my favourite restaurants in Edinburgh, Petit Paris in the Grassmarket. The former Governor of Edinburgh Castle put me on to it - not personally, he put it on Twitter!)
The Auld Alliance
November 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Stirling Castle on an exceptionally fine November day. I remember Douglas MacDowell, Professor of Greek at Glasgow University in my time there saying that he thought this was a more accurate example of an acropolis than Edinburgh Castle.
November 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
October 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
I can almost hear Sir Humphrey advising Bernard:
"On second thoughts, best not to talk about donkeys in connection with the PM"
#YesMinister #YesPrimeMINISTER
September 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
It’s always a pleasure to read the words of John Steane. Bellini, I Puritani: Maria Callas & Joan Sutherland
September 16, 2025 at 8:14 AM
In preparation for a visit to an opera house I’ve LONG wanted to see. On previous trips to this far-off city, it’s been sold out or not the season. More later…
September 16, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Delighted to see this soon for issue. "I was there" [for No.5] as Max Boyce would have said, and was so moved at the ending, possibly my favourite quiet ending of any symphony.
September 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli may be about to play Debussy, but he's actually reconsidering the wisdom of having chosen a baloney sandwich for lunch...
August 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (1920-1995)
"Are you a pianist?"
#arturobenedettimichelangeli #michelangeli
August 28, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Pianist Jorge Bolet is part of the so-called "New York taste".

I originally misread the Italian reviewer (1975), thought this said: "New Iroqois taste" and was baffled!

...cosiddetto "gusto" nuovairochese/nuovaiorchese...
August 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Good to be reminded of the eloquence and wit of Jeremy Siepmann whom I first heard talking about Schnabel on BBC Radio 3 in the early 1980s. Here on Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (whom he admired tremendously):
August 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and Carlos Kleiber never made a recording of Beethoven's Emperor in 1975. First obstacle...
August 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I wonder when this young pianist first started showing signs of eccentricity.
August 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
I think I'm now going to feel "short changed" when I read music reviews in 2025! Here's an Austrian paper from 1948
August 12, 2025 at 9:42 PM
No cheating: your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it? (I don’t think she’s taking me seriously)
August 3, 2025 at 12:52 AM
August 2, 2025 at 10:02 PM
A bit tangential, but I thought of this from Frasier TV sitcom:
July 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM