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MusicMagazine

  1. Dep ed on a high after @theCBSO War Requiem. Incredible experience.
  2. @organistsreview If he sings flat, we'll be mentioning it in our report... ;-)
  3. Poignantly, our piece about the War Requiem in our May issue featured an interview with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. His last?
  4. @lizlyricfm Excited as puppies, or excited by puppies?
  5. What's this? Rain in Brum? Summer's over.
  6. @banksandwag @thierryattard Ah oui, mes amis. C'est Le Grand Zing.
  7. Dep editor off to CBSO Britten War Requiem at Coventry Cathedral. Thinking of simile to describe just how excited he is.
  8. @SophieDening Yep sure. Feel free to Direct Mail us and will sort.
  9. @kennethwoods You could have always played it quicker?
  10. @nigetassell Best thing is that he follows it up with the magnificent 'I had an uncle who once played For Red Star Belgrade…'
  11. To Venezuela for today's Olympic country composer! Castellanos's Santa Cruz de Pacairigua is superb: ♫ Fiesta spoti.fi/KcjNH7
  12. @nigetassell Ah, yes, Bragg: 'A nuclear submarine sinks off the coast of Sweden, Headlines give me headaches when I read them'. Genius.
  13. @nigetassell Expect we'll now have a smart Alec tweet from Knowledge telling us it was, in fact, Bob Dylan who wrote those lyrics…
  14. @nigetassell That's up there with Ocean Colour Scene's legendary 'Sipped another Rum and Coke', 'And told a dirty joke' couplet.
  15. Barenboim, Beethoven, Rattle, Painted Lady, Gromit, Rachmaninov etc all appear on the front cover of the new BBC Music Magazine, by the way!
  16. @ChambOrchEurope Easy. That was the medallion worn by the late, great Barry White.
  17. @ChambOrchEurope Painted Lady Butterflies don't have big hands.
  18. @Becca_JF21 Nope. You've got a plane to catch.
  19. Wednesday teaser: What do Daniel Barenboim, Simon Rattle, Beethoven, Gromit, Rachmaninov and a Painted Lady Butterfly have in common?
  20. Is there a word that means 'Love of hats'? Something like 'Philhattery' or whatever…