Thank you! I'll start using a #YearOfWonder2026 tag to help people find posts with each other.
January 2, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Thank you! I'll start using a #YearOfWonder2026 tag to help people find posts with each other.
#YearOfWonder2026 Day 139, Alice Mary Smith's First Symphony, 4th movement: Allegro maestoso
As the "first symphony ever written by a British woman", Smith's work is great, with the combination of bombast and delicacy ones hopes for from the greats.
As the "first symphony ever written by a British woman", Smith's work is great, with the combination of bombast and delicacy ones hopes for from the greats.
Symphony in C minor (Alice Mary Smith)
YouTube video by Art Wangcharoensab
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May 19, 2026 at 10:37 PM
#YearOfWonder2026 Day 139, Alice Mary Smith's First Symphony, 4th movement: Allegro maestoso
As the "first symphony ever written by a British woman", Smith's work is great, with the combination of bombast and delicacy ones hopes for from the greats.
As the "first symphony ever written by a British woman", Smith's work is great, with the combination of bombast and delicacy ones hopes for from the greats.
#YearOfWonder2026, Day 9: Verdi's Requiem, movement 3. Offertorio.
Verdi's Requiem: Offertorio
YouTube video by jaason53
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January 9, 2026 at 8:44 PM
#YearOfWonder2026, Day 9: Verdi's Requiem, movement 3. Offertorio.
#YearOfWonder2026, Day 14 "E lucevan le stelle" from Puccini's Tosca
Tosca: “E lucevan le stelle”
YouTube video by Metropolitan Opera
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January 15, 2026 at 1:42 AM
#YearOfWonder2026, Day 14 "E lucevan le stelle" from Puccini's Tosca
#YearOfWonder2026 Day 54: Ennio Morricone's Love Theme from "Cinema Paradiso"
Morricone: Theme from Cinema Paradiso (Renaud Capuçon)
YouTube video by Warner Classics
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February 23, 2026 at 7:54 PM
#YearOfWonder2026 Day 54: Ennio Morricone's Love Theme from "Cinema Paradiso"
#YearOfWonder2026, Day 28: Reynaldo Hahn's "L'Heure Exquise"
Renée Fleming - Hahn: L’Heure exquise, from 7 Chansons grises (session video)
YouTube video by Decca Classics
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January 29, 2026 at 4:07 AM
#YearOfWonder2026, Day 28: Reynaldo Hahn's "L'Heure Exquise"
#YearOfWonder2026 Day 88: "Ambre" by Nils Frahm
Frahm decided that the 88th day of the year should be "Piano Day", so if you're near a piano, play a bit of something, even if you're self-conscious, even if you're not practiced, just hit a few notes and bring some music into the air.
Frahm decided that the 88th day of the year should be "Piano Day", so if you're near a piano, play a bit of something, even if you're self-conscious, even if you're not practiced, just hit a few notes and bring some music into the air.
Nils Frahm - Ambre (CMusic)
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March 29, 2026 at 7:20 PM
#YearOfWonder2026 Day 88: "Ambre" by Nils Frahm
Frahm decided that the 88th day of the year should be "Piano Day", so if you're near a piano, play a bit of something, even if you're self-conscious, even if you're not practiced, just hit a few notes and bring some music into the air.
Frahm decided that the 88th day of the year should be "Piano Day", so if you're near a piano, play a bit of something, even if you're self-conscious, even if you're not practiced, just hit a few notes and bring some music into the air.
#YearOfWonder2026 Day 44: Leonard Bernstein's "Symphonic Dances from West Side Story", Mambo:
Gustavo Dudamel - Bernstein: 'Mambo' from West Side Story (with Simón Bolívar SO)
YouTube video by Deutsche Grammophon - DG
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February 14, 2026 at 2:30 AM
#YearOfWonder2026 Day 44: Leonard Bernstein's "Symphonic Dances from West Side Story", Mambo:
I'll tag #YearOfWonder2026 for anyone who wants to go along
January 2, 2026 at 8:03 AM
I'll tag #YearOfWonder2026 for anyone who wants to go along
#YearOfWonder2026 Day 48: Poulenc's "Mélancolie"
Poulenc:Mélancolie (Ichiro Kaneko)
YouTube video by Ichiro Kaneko
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February 18, 2026 at 3:07 AM
#YearOfWonder2026 Day 48: Poulenc's "Mélancolie"
#YearOfWonder2026, Day 15: Olivier Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time", mov. 5 "Louange à l'éternité de Jesus"
Messiaen: Quatuor pour la fin du temps: 5 Louange à l'Eternité de Jésus
YouTube video by Lukas Huisman
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January 16, 2026 at 2:22 AM
#YearOfWonder2026, Day 15: Olivier Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time", mov. 5 "Louange à l'éternité de Jesus"
#YearOfWonder2026, Day 24: Wm. Byrd's "Mass for Five Voices" Agnus Dei:
The Agnus Dei is a prayer for mercy and peace.
The Agnus Dei is a prayer for mercy and peace.
Agnus Dei from Mass for five voices (William Byrd) The Gesualdo Six at Ely Cathedral
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January 24, 2026 at 5:53 PM
#YearOfWonder2026, Day 24: Wm. Byrd's "Mass for Five Voices" Agnus Dei:
The Agnus Dei is a prayer for mercy and peace.
The Agnus Dei is a prayer for mercy and peace.
I'll post on my feed, but we can all use #YearOfWonder2026 to find each other's posts
January 2, 2026 at 8:02 AM
I'll post on my feed, but we can all use #YearOfWonder2026 to find each other's posts
#YearOfWonder2026, Day 38: Gregorio Allegri's "Miserere"
Allegri | Miserere mei | King's College, Cambridge
YouTube video by KingsCollegeChoir
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February 7, 2026 at 6:35 PM
#YearOfWonder2026, Day 38: Gregorio Allegri's "Miserere"
#YearOfWonder2026 Day 152, "Je te veux" by Erik Satie
An irresistible waltz, from a composer known for more unconventional music, seen here in an outdoor concert in Amsterdam. A nice way to spend a summer's evening, on a river listening to live music.
(Below is a beautiful guitar version as well.)
An irresistible waltz, from a composer known for more unconventional music, seen here in an outdoor concert in Amsterdam. A nice way to spend a summer's evening, on a river listening to live music.
(Below is a beautiful guitar version as well.)
Prinsengracht Concert 2017 - Erik Satie - Je te Veux
YouTube video by Lilian Farahani
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June 2, 2026 at 2:53 AM
#YearOfWonder2026 Day 152, "Je te veux" by Erik Satie
An irresistible waltz, from a composer known for more unconventional music, seen here in an outdoor concert in Amsterdam. A nice way to spend a summer's evening, on a river listening to live music.
(Below is a beautiful guitar version as well.)
An irresistible waltz, from a composer known for more unconventional music, seen here in an outdoor concert in Amsterdam. A nice way to spend a summer's evening, on a river listening to live music.
(Below is a beautiful guitar version as well.)
#YearOfWonder2026, Day 11: Maurice Duruflé's "Four Gregorian Chants", "Ubi caritas et amor"
Duruflé: Ubi caritas
YouTube video by KingsCollegeChoir
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January 12, 2026 at 2:23 AM
#YearOfWonder2026, Day 11: Maurice Duruflé's "Four Gregorian Chants", "Ubi caritas et amor"
#YearOfWonder2026 Day 164: Benjamin Britten's arrangement of "The Salley Gardens"
Played here by Britten himself, and sung by his life partner, Peter Pears, a lovely plaintive romantic setting of Yeats' folk song.
Happy Pride.
Played here by Britten himself, and sung by his life partner, Peter Pears, a lovely plaintive romantic setting of Yeats' folk song.
Happy Pride.
Britten and Pears Perform Britten Folksong Arrangements, Japan 1956
YouTube video by John Randolph
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June 14, 2026 at 3:50 AM
#YearOfWonder2026 Day 164: Benjamin Britten's arrangement of "The Salley Gardens"
Played here by Britten himself, and sung by his life partner, Peter Pears, a lovely plaintive romantic setting of Yeats' folk song.
Happy Pride.
Played here by Britten himself, and sung by his life partner, Peter Pears, a lovely plaintive romantic setting of Yeats' folk song.
Happy Pride.
#YearOfWonder2026 Day 59, Elgar's 2nd Symphony, mov. 2. Larghetto
Elgar/Second Symphony/Larghetto + King Edward VII's Funeral
YouTube video by vinteui1
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March 1, 2026 at 1:17 AM
#YearOfWonder2026 Day 59, Elgar's 2nd Symphony, mov. 2. Larghetto
#YearOfWonder2026, Day 10: Giovanni Kapsberger's "Toccata Arpeggiata"
Toccata Arpeggiata by Kapsberger (1580-1651)_ Theorbo
YouTube video by Brandon Acker
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January 10, 2026 at 9:56 PM
#YearOfWonder2026, Day 10: Giovanni Kapsberger's "Toccata Arpeggiata"
#YearOfWonder2026, Day 36: Telemann's Trumpet Concerto in Dmaj, 1: Adagio
Alison Balsom records Telemann: Trumpet Concerto: I. Adagio
YouTube video by Warner Classics
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February 6, 2026 at 5:43 AM
#YearOfWonder2026, Day 36: Telemann's Trumpet Concerto in Dmaj, 1: Adagio
#YearOfWonder2026 Day 110: Henry Purcell & John Dryden's "Music for a While"
Performed here by countertenor Andreas Scholl and harpsichordist Tamar Halperin, there's a certain sense to baroque music of being simultaneously historically distant and still vibrant when it's sung into the air.
Performed here by countertenor Andreas Scholl and harpsichordist Tamar Halperin, there's a certain sense to baroque music of being simultaneously historically distant and still vibrant when it's sung into the air.
Andreas Scholl & Tamar Halperin - Purcell: Music for a while - Live
YouTube video by AVROTROS Klassiek
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April 21, 2026 at 3:03 AM
#YearOfWonder2026 Day 110: Henry Purcell & John Dryden's "Music for a While"
Performed here by countertenor Andreas Scholl and harpsichordist Tamar Halperin, there's a certain sense to baroque music of being simultaneously historically distant and still vibrant when it's sung into the air.
Performed here by countertenor Andreas Scholl and harpsichordist Tamar Halperin, there's a certain sense to baroque music of being simultaneously historically distant and still vibrant when it's sung into the air.
#YearOfWonder2026 Day 84: Béla Bartók's "Romanian Folk Dances - 2. Sash Dance"
2018 - Datina - Romanian Folk Dances (Bela Bartok)
YouTube video by Datina - Shows
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March 25, 2026 at 5:44 PM
#YearOfWonder2026 Day 84: Béla Bartók's "Romanian Folk Dances - 2. Sash Dance"
#YearOfWonder2026 Day 81: Max Richter's "Recomposed: Vivaldi Four Seasons", Spring 2
Creating art that is somehow both fully fresh and fully familiar is the spine and soul of springtime. Now-Oscar-nominated Max Richter (for his Hamnet score) does it seamlessly here.
Creating art that is somehow both fully fresh and fully familiar is the spine and soul of springtime. Now-Oscar-nominated Max Richter (for his Hamnet score) does it seamlessly here.
Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons, The Unsung Collective
YouTube video by The Unsung Collective
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March 23, 2026 at 12:31 AM
#YearOfWonder2026 Day 81: Max Richter's "Recomposed: Vivaldi Four Seasons", Spring 2
Creating art that is somehow both fully fresh and fully familiar is the spine and soul of springtime. Now-Oscar-nominated Max Richter (for his Hamnet score) does it seamlessly here.
Creating art that is somehow both fully fresh and fully familiar is the spine and soul of springtime. Now-Oscar-nominated Max Richter (for his Hamnet score) does it seamlessly here.
#YearOfWonder2026 Day 74: "Va, Tacito" from Handel's opera version of "Julius Caesar"
Handel - Opera: "Julius Caesar" ("Va tacito") Dame Janet Baker.
YouTube video by AntPDC
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March 16, 2026 at 12:12 AM
#YearOfWonder2026 Day 74: "Va, Tacito" from Handel's opera version of "Julius Caesar"
#YearOfWonder2026 Day 102: "Metamorphosen" by Richard Strauss
Composed in 1945 for just 23 strings, this piece feels like you're stepping through rubble, taking stock of destruction and loss. As Burton-Hill notes: "It is a singularly moving musical response to the senselessness of war -- any war."
Composed in 1945 for just 23 strings, this piece feels like you're stepping through rubble, taking stock of destruction and loss. As Burton-Hill notes: "It is a singularly moving musical response to the senselessness of war -- any war."
Richard Strauss: "Metamorphosen" mit Esa-Pekka Salonen | NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester
YouTube video by ARD Klassik
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April 12, 2026 at 7:04 PM
#YearOfWonder2026 Day 102: "Metamorphosen" by Richard Strauss
Composed in 1945 for just 23 strings, this piece feels like you're stepping through rubble, taking stock of destruction and loss. As Burton-Hill notes: "It is a singularly moving musical response to the senselessness of war -- any war."
Composed in 1945 for just 23 strings, this piece feels like you're stepping through rubble, taking stock of destruction and loss. As Burton-Hill notes: "It is a singularly moving musical response to the senselessness of war -- any war."