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@DrDavidVernon I read Books of Jacob based on your tweets and loved it. Am now reading the Empusium which is great fun, especially as my favourite author of all is Thomas Mann!

@jeremydenk So we should not be expecting a new Hanmerklavier recording!

if i had a Terminator-style robot i would use it to go back to the 19th century and try to stop composers from putting fugues in their finales

@Komaniecki_R @ThreatNotation Many years ago I saw Tannhauser in Hamburg and they showed porn on big screens to depict Venusberg. The Germans don't mess around with opera!

There’s an controversial all-female opera being put on in Germany that has resulted in older audience members needing to seek medical attention due to shock and this picture from the article has me in actual tears

@nfmusic The Daily Mail can refocus on orgies rather than flag counting

In a surprising change to the #lnop schedules, the second half will now be the entire second act of Moses und Aron

@LoveInner I meant the 4th

@LoveInner I listened to this today and the Rozhdestvensky / BBC yesterday. Very interesting contrast. The Makela more rounded and polished. The Rozhdestvensky is brutal and uncompromising which I think is what this symphony needs

#NowSpinning Going straight in with the Fourth. I LOVE this work. Straight off, the recording is massive and extremely impactful. Now let’s see what the performance is like. Feeling very hopeful after the tremendous opening!

@GeneralBoles Just been. Disgustingly humid out there

nothing like getting up at 5am to go running before it gets too hot and said run turning out to be an absolute disaster ☹️💦

@barneyfarmer No doubt something that began spontaneously and now just performative

If I lived to be one million years old I doubt I would ever understand the appeal or point of throwing a pint of perfectly good beer which I had bought with my own money up into the air.

@GeneralBoles Before an ultra I bought 3 boxes without realising they contained caffeine which means you can realistically only have one per event. Going to take me years to get through them!

If anybody from SIS is following me, that is not an attractive colour, also please send me a few dozen boxes of your Nootropic gels 😘

@ClassicalCritic Bluebeard

If you had to choose ONE, which is Bartók's *masterpiece*?

@MusicOfLee I heard Nathalie Stutzmann conduct Bruckner in London earlier this year and she was amazing. Interesting that she is also primarily known as a singer as is Barbara Hannigan

While dunking on a laughably bad mean take is amusing, maybe we can pivot a little and try to highlight some great work done by female conductors:

@OrpheusL I listened to the first quartet from this disc tonight. Faure has such a distinctive sound. Immediately recognisable and wonderful

#Classicalfoolproofantidepressant No. 894

@littmath If you think of these sequences as 1s and 0s of a binary number and then convert back to decimal doesn't it come down whether 397 is any more special than 1023?

NOT a math puzzle: you are imprisoned by two guards—Alice and Bob. One always lies; the other always tells the truth. Each flips a fair coin 10 times. Bob reports the sequence HTHHTTTHHT, and Alice reports that she got all heads. Who is most likely the liar?

@nfmusic The Magic Mountain (loose definition of hotel)

Best novels set in hotels?

@nfmusic Death in Venice

@RunUltra_UK 40 minutes behind. They were 31 hours ...

@MannGeorgia @BBCRadio3 Hi Georgia. As it's Ravel's birthday how about something from his Mirroirs suite? La vallee des cloches has the bells that seems a natural part of Part's sound world. Claude in London

We're in an entrancing mirrored world in the Playlister @BBCRadio3 It's Spiegel im Spiegel, Mirror in the Mirror by Avo Part. This is Part in his Tintinabuli mode, a technique inspired by his experiences with chant. Where to? Here's Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Room

@aquilanebula Is there an English libretto available anywhere?

@DrDavidVernon I will admit that I have never come across this but every one of your recommendations has been spot on so I have just ordered it!

The intense wonder of this book. It gets the caprice, the impertinence, the malevolence, the hilarity of melancholy and depression. One of the supreme human documents.

@DrDavidVernon Where would you suggest starting with his work?

Allan Pettersson’s music has long been a passion of mine, so to finally have a complete edition is wonderful. Sounds & structures of extraordinary emotional depth, rich imagination, dark sublime beauty. A book on his work would be a dream — I really must consider proposing one.