Serenade to Music
Wednesday, 1 January 2014
Jesus, now be praised
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Imagine you were attending the New Year's Day service at Leipzig's Thomaskirche in 1725... And when eight days were accomplis...
First Footing
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Happy New Year! And what piece of music is better to start 2014 that the thrilling toccata which opens Monteverdi's Orfeo - the f...
Saturday, 21 December 2013
Any Cause for Carolling will do
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One BBC programme that I've had the time to listen to closely in recent days has been Jeremy Summerly's wonderful A Cause for ...
Monday, 11 March 2013
In the Fen Country
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With 1904's orchestral In the Fen Country we seem to encounter the familiar voice of Ralph Vaughan Williams for the first time. T...
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Saturday, 9 March 2013
Vaughan Williams: Confident First Steps
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Sometimes composers can be their own worst enemies. Ralph Vaughan Williams was prone to over-modesty and kept making comments about his...
Wednesday, 6 March 2013
Debussy - The Orchestral Works (I)
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I think it's time to do a couple of pieces on the orchestral music of Claude Debussy, given the wonders contained therein. The secon...
Sunday, 3 March 2013
Poland II: The Renaissance
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Humanist waves began washing ashore in Poland not long after they they had begun forming. Renaissance musical trends naturally washed in...
Poland I: The Middle Ages
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As you would expect from such a great European nation, Poland has a long musical history and one that often shows a full-blooded engagem...
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