Stravinsky and a koala bear

Was the modernist Stravinsky just a big softie really?

One of my favourite photos on the tumblr Composers doing normal shit (excuse my French).

Beethoven, Britten and Brahms

Over on www.classical-music.com, I've been doing some reviewing. Beethoven from the Elias Quartet, Britten's Paul Bunyan from English Touring Opera and Schumanns – Robert and Clara – and Brahms from Imogen Cooper.

Kalinnikov's First Symphony

Kalinnikov's First Symphony. Some good tunes for Sunday evening. Also for driving back to Bristol from Cardiff on Friday evening - I nipped over to Wales to hear John Metcalf's new opera Under Milk Wood.
And here's a short video introduction to it from the London Philharmonic Orchestra.