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Our king, our priest, our feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/26/ai-dark-ages-enlightenment?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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Elin Manahan Thomas, George Frideric Handel, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Harry Christophers:
🎵 Eternal source of light divine (Birthday Ode for Queen Anne)
https://open.spotify.com/track/301GhrxRRyQ0h8NP6NQQxc

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Johann Sebastian Bach, Steven Devine, Steven Devine & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment:
🎵 Harpsichord Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1059 I. Allegro
#StevenDevine
https://open.spotify.com/track/0vH8fe6BiQLUucOptMrpyM

Es gibt Tage, da bedürfen wir der #Aufklärung, nennt es auch gerne #Erleuchtung, #Enlightenment oder wie auch immer ;)
Die Welt von

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Johann Sebastian Bach, Matthew Brook, The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Stephen Layton:
🎵 Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 (Pt 1, No 8 Grosser Herr and No 9 Ach mein herzlieb)
#Cambridge

For Saint Augustine of Hippo, writing in North Africa in the fourth century,
authentic attention placed us in relation with the divine.
For Saint Ignatius of Loyola, holed up in his cave in Catalonia in the 1520s,
what he called “attentive contemplation” was both a daily practice and a moral imperative.
During the Enlightenment, close attention emerged as a virtue essential to knowledge and disciplined investigation,
-- as demonstrated in 1740, when the natural…

Opinion | The ‘Attention Economy’ Is a Lie
It started in a laboratory. No one could have predicted where it would end.

Enlightenment is understanding that "no hip-hop on the charts" is exactly what hip-hop needs
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When people talk about the Enlightenment as if it were an intellectual garden party where everyone sipped wine and agreed about reason, they're missing the part where producing and distributing ideas was (in fact) dangerous and thankless work.
Today we have more information than any civilization in history.
But aside from Wikipedia, we've organized the sum total of our collective knowledge into formats optimized for making people angry at strangers in pursuit of private …

The Case for Blogging in the Ruins
In 1751, Denis Diderot began publishing his Encyclopédie, a project that would eventually span 28 volumes and take more than two decades to complete. The French government banned it twice. The Catholic Church condemned it, Diderot's collaborators abandoned him, his publisher secretly censored entries behind his back, and he worked

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Johann Sebastian Bach, Elizabeth Wallfisch, Alison Bury & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment:
🎵 Concerto in D minor for two violins, BWV 1043 (2nd mvt)
#AlisonBury
https://open.spotify.com/track/365JIaWO8Tm45gj1SLQGGU

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Johann Sebastian Bach, Pavlo Beznosiuk, Sarah Cunningham, Richard Campbell, Richard Tunnicliffe, William Hunt, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Monica Huggett:
🎵 Brandenburg concerto no. 6 (BWV.1051) in B flat major
https://open.spotify.com/track/4cLApB4U8Hqr8rfNAH71Hv

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Johann Sebastian Bach, Pavlo Beznosiuk, Sarah Cunningham, Richard Campbell, Richard Tunnicliffe, William Hunt, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Monica Huggett:
🎵 Brandenburg concerto no. 6 (BWV.1051) in B flat major
https://open.spotify.com/track/4cLApB4U8Hqr8rfNAH71Hv

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Joseph Haydn, Elizabeth Wallfisch, Anthony Robson, David Watkin, Felix Warnock & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment:
🎵 Sinfonia concertante in B flat major H.1.105 (3rd mvt)
https://open.spotify.com/track/5fz4nvM3tKSSojkadkDU3F

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Joseph Haydn, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Frans Brüggen:
🎵 Symphony No 49 in F minor, 'La passione'
#JosephHaydn #OrchestraoftheAgeofEnlightenment #FransBrüggen

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Felix Mendelssohn, Stephen Doughty, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Edinburgh Festival Chorus & Paul Daniel:
🎵 Elijah, Op. 70, Part 1: "Thanks be to God!"
https://open.spotify.com/track/4ImAnxnga3uo1sN0nA8bda

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Jean‐Philippe Rameau, Gustav Leonhardt & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment:
🎵 Suite Les Paladins, RCT 51 (No 17, Gigue vive)
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Luigi Boccherini, Steven Isserlis & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment:
🎵 Cello Concerto No. 2 in A Major, G. 475 'The Frog': III. Rondo
#LuigiBoccherini #StevenIsserlis
https://open.spotify.com/track/3n1w0XkS0EUxFTaTfQ7bQP

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hillevi Martinpelto, Alison Hagley, Sir Thomas Allen, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Sir Simon Rattle:
🎵 Soave sia il vento (Così fan tutte K.588)
#WolfgangAmadeusMozart #HilleviMartinpelto

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Felix Mendelssohn, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Charles Mackerras:
🎵 A Midsummer Night's Dream Op.61 (Overture, Op.21)
#FelixMendelssohn #CharlesMackerras
https://open.spotify.com/track/0gHTdZMF03DZGiQXQnmmb5

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Franz Schubert, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Charles Mackerras:
🎵 Symphony No 5 in B flat major, D 485 (2nd mvt)
#FranzSchubert #OrchestraoftheAgeofEnlightenment #CharlesMackerras
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Franz Schubert, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Charles Mackerras:
🎵 Symphony no.5 in B flat major (4th mvt)
#FranzSchubert #OrchestraoftheAgeofEnlightenment #CharlesMackerras
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Jean‐Philippe Rameau, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Gustav Leonhardt:
🎵 Les Paladins (Air de furie)
#JeanPhilippeRameau #OrchestraoftheAgeofEnlightenment #GustavLeonhardt

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Johannes Brahms, Sir Andršs Schiff & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment:
🎵 PIano Concerto no. 1 in D minor Op.15: II - Adagio
#JohannesBrahms #SirAndrásSchiff
https://open.spotify.com/track/4MW6w5IyOl5JFWoNAM7stP

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George Frideric Handel, Renée Fleming, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Harry Bicket:
🎵 Lascia ch'io pianga (Rinaldo)
#GeorgeFridericHandel #RenéeFleming #OrchestraoftheAgeofEnlightenment #HarryBicket