The Welsh National Opera orchestra needs your help! Keep the WNO as a full-time company, protect jobs and secure the company’s future. Write to your MP or MS and ask them to help protect one of the jewels in the Welsh culture crown. themu.org/WNOBalch

#NowSpinning sure one of the #GreatRecordings of Scheherazade. I fell in love with this performance when my brother bought me the disc for Christmas. What a hero! Mackerras always wonderful; here particularly so!

As with Brexit, it’s already clear that the only thing Trump supporters in the UK have to celebrate is the discomfort of people who know what’s coming. Give it a year or two & they’ll be demanding that we stop talking about him altogether. It’s like Groundtwat Day.

Arnold Bax was born on 8 November 1883. He created haunting tapestries of lush harmonies and purveyed evocative, magical landscapes, capturing the soul of nature and the spirit of myth in a deeply poetic voice. What are your favourite Bax works and recordings?

In need of cheer this #NewReleaseFriday? You're in luck: the Czech Philharmonic are here with colourful and vivacious Dvořák to lift your spirits. If you love his famous Slavonic Dances, then these lesser-known works will be right up your street. ▶️ spoti.fi/400asdn

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Tell the PM - No New Lords! Don't add more peers to our bloated second chamber. Add your name to Electoral Reform Society's #NoNewLords call action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/20144/pet…

Keir Starmer's new private healthcare deal will NOT help patients see their doctor quicker. The Conservatives tried it for the last 4 years. It failed. Ask your MP to demand the government invest in the solutions that are working. @We_ownit weownit.org.uk/nhs