Hey NMC Recordings HCR, we have another nice review 😊

About a decade ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in honour of Shakespeare's birthday, here's what I found.

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Easy to be cynical about Facebook and plan to delete it, then you come across someone selling Boulez's car

Good lord

This is what it really sounded like!

Good news! bastille musique’s twenty-seventh release »Hugues Dufourt: Surgir« feat. world premiere recordings by  #ensemblerecherche , WDR
#Sinfonieorchester , #EnsembleNikel , Remix Ensemble, #YaronDeutsch and Nicolas Hodges is on the #PdSK longlist 2/2024: schallplattenkritik.de/bestenlisten/l…

Oh look! A review!

Evan Johnson - Evan Johnson, Indolentiae Ars. Rosman. Huddersfield Contemporary Records, HCR31 | Tempo | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4cS0B0u

1000000000000066600000000000001 is a prime number…it is also a palindrome.

It’s called ‘Belphegor's prime.’

‘Belphegor’ refers to one of the Seven Princes of Hell (due to the ‘666’ in the middle & the 13 zeroes on either side).

So that’s cute.

There’s also a Mozart clarinet concerto with Alan Hacker playing and Boulez conducting. How about it BBC Radio 3 ? 😎

Hey BBC Radio 3, any chance of tracking this down? For alas it is timely. classicalsource.com/concert/lso-eo…

Take one composer. Turgut Ercetin. Add four amazing ELISION musicians on baroque instruments. Add SWR orchestra. Brad Lubman. Think of ECLAT. A recipe for simply amazing stuff.
Carl Rosman MdJ Stuttgart

A cartoon about #libraries for Guardian Books

Still have these, in case anyone wants to go old school…

bastille musique presents its twenty-seventh release »Hugues Dufourt: Surgir« featuring world premiere recordings by #ensemblerecherche , WDR #Sinfonieorchester , #EnsembleNikel , Remix Ensemble, #YaronDeutsch and Nicolas Hodges: bastillemusique.bandcamp.com/album/hugues-d…

Anyone else thinking of a great Dad’s Army moment?

No but holy crap.

All four people currently depicted on the reverse of Bank of England banknotes either died at the age of 41 or were portrayed in a film by Timothy Spall.

Any fluent Welsh speakers out there, with five minutes to spare...?