Sunday, 21 June 2020

The New Babylon - Kozintsev, Trauberg and Shostakovich

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Dimitri Shostakovich's first film score, for the 1929 film by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg, The New Babylon (Novyy Vavilon)...
Sunday, 14 June 2020

Keeping live music alive - Royal Opera House live from Covent Garden

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Lots to listen to this weekend : Live from the Royal Opera House, London, from the Rudolfinium Prague with Simon Rattle conducting the...
Friday, 12 June 2020

Roderick Williams - defeating cultural apartheid in Lieder, Wigmore Hall

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Roderick Williams sings Schumann Frauen-Liebe und Leben at the Wigmore Hall with pianist Joseph Middleton, highlight of an unusual prog...
Wednesday, 10 June 2020

Night Mail 1936 - Art and covert socialism

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Available now on BFI player, Night Mail, the pioneering documentary produced by the General Post Office film unit released in February ...
Friday, 5 June 2020

People or pianos ? Good for Yuja Wang !

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Yuja Wang (Photo : Julia Wesley) On her Facebook page Yuja Wang has spoken out on the image of a piano trashed in the protests after th...
Saturday, 30 May 2020

The Proms as Covid Supernova ?

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Does some of the London media want a supernova of COVID infections this year ? The BBC Proms this year will respect safety guidelines, sw...
Thursday, 28 May 2020

Zemlinsky Die Seejungfrau - Jurowski Concertgebouw Amsterdam

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Alexander Zemlinsky Die Seejungfrau with Vladimir Jurowski conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam Orchestra in 2013 on the RCOA s...
Saturday, 23 May 2020

The personal Roger Quilter : Mark Stone - Songs of Roger Quilter vol 3

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Mark Stone and Stephen Barlow present Volume III in their series the Complete Roger Quilter Songbook, on Stone Records. Quilter made mor...
Wednesday, 20 May 2020

Hi'ilawe - one of the loveliest songs, ever

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Hi'ilawe is one of my favourite songs ever, which is saying a lot since I've been doing Lieder and art song since I was a kid.  ...
Saturday, 16 May 2020

Ca' the yowes to the knowes - folk song and art song

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New from Stone Records, Part 3 in their Roger Quilter Complete Songs series,  Roger Quilter's Ca' the yowes with Mark Stone...
Wednesday, 13 May 2020

Herbert Howells Missa Sabrinensis, revealed in its true glory

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At last, Herbert Howell's Missa Sabrinensis (1954) with David Hill conducting the Bach Choir, with whom David Willcocks performed the...
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Sunday, 10 May 2020

Mahler Festival Online LINKS

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Plans for the 2020 Mahler Festival with the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam had to be cancelled at short notice, thanks to coronavirus. No...
Thursday, 7 May 2020

Prophetic Nemesis : Hitchcock the Birds

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In times of COVID pandemic, it's scarier than ever to watch Alfred Hirtchcock's The Birds , released in 1963.  Since I used to...
Friday, 1 May 2020

After COVID, what will workers (and non workers) do ?

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Luton Town Hall burhed down, May Day 1919 worker's revolt What happens when COVID 19 is "over" ? Unprecedented economic c...
Wednesday, 22 April 2020

Morbid Lullabies : ballads, folk song, art song and creative vision

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Thomas Rawlinosn The Ballad Singer What "is" folk music ? Since the term didn't even exist until the 20th century it...