Dancing Monk🌻

I’ll continue #MonksMusic by running the original concept again The rules are simple A year between 1651 & 2023 A single composer A composition written by them in the chosen year The year & the composer may only be used once. It must be in my collection

The snow is late this year

Written by Mozart in 1787 and recorded at London's @wigmore-hall.org.uk in 2025, these two well-known quintets occupy a singular place in the chamber repertoire, balancing the lightness of the gallant style with a profound, often searching emotional depth.

Lightly Toasted is a cardio circuit set to the correct toast setting: warm, golden, and out before anything burns. youtu.be/-7xPZCPPl7Y #Darebee

#NowPlaying Notker Balubus - Sequences, Tropes & Gregorian Chant from the Cloisters of St Gallen

Your annual reminder that in Scotland we do “guising” Kids are expected to tell a joke, riddle, or poem, or sing a song “Trick or treat” is for Americans - and no one likes being blackmailed

#NowPlaying Low - David Bowie

British Birds and their Nests ‘Goldfinch’ (1953) Artist: Allen Seaby

#MonksMusic 🎻 Year - 1832 Composer - Hector Berlioz Work - Lélio ou le Retour à la Vie H 55 Op. 14 www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...

If you're wondering whether you need to sacrifice your hard-won fitness gains this #Halloween we have you covered. darebee.com/fitness/how-... #Darebee

Knee Fix is a rehab workout for the knee that complains - the familiar, chronic, stairs-and-cold-mornings kind of ache, not the sharp kind. youtu.be/fhYxQEzEEUY #Darebee

Out Now! Cloudland Blue Eclectic Selection 2026 Vol 43 www.mixcloud.com/CloudlandBlu... 7 New LPs of the Week 2 CBQ Items 7 Old LPs of the Week 30 More New Releases Grab your pen & paper. Jot down top sounds you want to investigate So 1. Listen to Podcast 2. Discover Great New Music That's it

#NowPlaying Joni Mitchell Mingus

#NowPlaying Frédéric Chopin Songs Chopin Complete Edition 17 Malcolm Martineau, Elzbieta Szmytka

#NowPlaying Haydn 6 - Dissonance -String Quartet 19 In C, K465 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Time to reclaim Doggerland

#NowPlaying Soft Machine Bundles

Other work of the Ladybird artists. October (Shell Guide, 1957) Artist: SR Badmin

#MonksMusic 🎻 Year - 1831 Composer - Robert Schumann Work - Papillons Op 2 www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_...

US Launches Two More Airstrikes in Somalia, Bringing 2026 Total to 90 https://news.antiwar.com/2026/10/25/us-launches-two-more-airstrikes-in-somalia-bringing-2026-total-to-90/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=us-launches-two-more-airstrikes-in-somalia-bringing-2026-total-to-90

Wow #nowlistening #classicalmusic

#NowPlaying Play - Peter Gabriel

Rashomon" 1950 … Toshiro Mifune and Machiko Kyo … Director Akira Kurosawa

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#NowPlaying The Complete Anthems & Services 9 - Henry Purcell

Once again, I know no-one asked for this, but I also know #EveryoneLovesSmallPicturesofLPs So, here are the records I listened to (in whole, or in part, or for my podcast) from Wednesday 21st to Saturday 24th October, 2026...

#NowPlaying Hubert Parry - Nonet

#NowPlaying Björk - Volta

#MonksMusic 🎻 Year - 1830 Composer - Mikhail Glinka Work - Viola Sonata In D www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...

“An Autumn gale is stripping off the leaves and sweeping them along in the slanting squall of rain” Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL Grant Watson (What to Look for in Autumn, 1960)

#NowPlaying The Fierce & The Dead – If It Carries On Like This We Are Moving To Morecambe

Stormborn is a full body circuit named for the queen whose title came from surviving the tempest she was born into. youtu.be/7dhgynS4tRM #Darebee

These folks who are all "all I want is to be in a little house in the Scottish Highlands with the rain lashing at the windows and a good book", I'm here to tell you it ain't all that. My bedroom window is leaking, the dog has gone on walk strike and the WiFi is crap like it always is when it rains.

If it's of any comfort, I want nothing from you

#NowPlaying Capercaillie - Capercaillie

Vincent van Gogh, like many other late nineteenth century artists, was a great admirer of Japanese prints. He produced his own versions of a few of them in oils, such as his Flowering Plum Tree, based on a Hiroshige design. Flowering Plum Tree, by Vincent van Gogh. Oil on canvas, 1887.

Watching Kurosawa’s RAN. On DVD of course - no streaming allowed in this house!

#NowPlaying Paul Simon - Seven Psalms

Here's a handy way to calculate your 2 second braking distance. Imagine you are drivng behind a spikey concrete block that can stop on a dime

#NowPlaying Oscar Peterson Plays Count Basie

#NowPlaying @misterquartet.bsky.social - Disquietsongs cloudlandbluequartet.bandcamp.com/album/disqui...

#NowPlaying Kreeks Notebook - Tonu Kõrvits

Why isn't Alaska joining Canada?

#NowPlaying Charlie Parker & Lester Young - An Historical Meeting At The Summit

Other work of the Ladybird artists. ‘Cat and Kittens’ Wood engraving Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

#NowPlaying Jean Guyot - Te Deum Laudamus

#MonksMusic 🎻 Year - 1829 Composer - Gioachino Rossini Work - William Tell Overture www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...

#NowPlaying La Folia Variations on a Theme

Disabled people have spoken in a new report of their “constant fear” and worry that being physically active could put their disability benefits at risk. #PIP #ActivityTrap #DWP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-peo...

#NowPlaying Cockaigne (In London Town) Concert Overture Op. 40 - Edward Elgar

#NowPlaying Orchestral Theatre - Tan Dun