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Vol: 139 | 1 Nov 2015 |
Encapsulate the violent but melodious moments in operas,
discover different recordings of Bach’s B Minor Mass,
and enjoy Schoenberg’s dramatic Gurrelieder. |
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Wanda Landowska
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Great Women Artists
Who Shaped Music
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Chinese Musical Instruments
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Metal
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Music and Art
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Blake and Ralph
Vaughan Williams
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International Wimbledon Music Festival
Founded and directed by Anthony Wilkinson, the festival is created to share the experience of hearing and meeting world class artists in the beautiful churches in Wimbledon. Since its launch in 2009, it has grown exponentially, and is now recognized as an annual feast of world-class music making in southwest London... |
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Date: November 14 to 29, 2015
Country: United Kingdom
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| Arnold Schoenberg: Gurrelieder |
Music for Children: France |
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Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) rightfully considered himself the musical successor to both Richard Wagner and Johannes Brahms. Simultaneously extending their traditionally opposed German Romantic styles, Schoenberg started work on a song cycle for soprano, tenor and piano in 1900... |
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When you’re tired of the television jingles and interminable repetitions of “The Wheels on the Bus,” you’re ready to explore the world of music that appeals to children. Much as we wish they would love the music that stimulates our own musical tastes, we do better to look to simpler music for them... |
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| Violent and Unnatural Deaths in Opera I |
The B Minor Madrigal |
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For a good number of librettists and composers, death by stabbing was an all-time favorite. As far as stabbing goes, it always provides the opportunity for either the murderer or the victim to stagger about the stage. In the case of Verdi’s Rigoletto, the assassin Sparafucile stabs the heroine Gilda... |
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It’s often a puzzle for us how to hear very familiar music with new ears. When you’ve heard countless blah recordings of the Vivaldi this or the Bach that, it’s hard to get them back into our ears to being fresh again. In 1981, musicologist and performer Joshua Rifkin proposed a radical idea... |
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| My music |
Video |
Forgotten records |
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Requiem: Music for
All Saints & All Souls
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Linea
Music By Freya Waley-Cohen,
Text by Caleb Klaces |
Marais: Five Ancient French Dances – L’Agréable
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