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Page 31
ORCHESTRA
Peaceful sound for troubling times in The Lark Ascending
Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending is a contemplative and tender tone poem composed as a reaction to George...
Classical Guitar
What kind of music did Louis XIV like?
Robert de Visée’s music remains among some of the best examples of French Baroque guitar music to this day. Visée's...
FESTIVAL
The rise of the Crimson King
The Stones in the Park generally refers to a free outdoor festival held in Hyde Park on 5 July 1969 that was headlined...
ORCHESTRA
Vivaldi's Bohemian Concerto was the last gift for the dying lute
Within Antonio Vivaldi's creative period, the lute was going out of fashion as the lead solo instrument, though its...
TECHNOLOGIES
Stephen Hawking's message immortalized through the sound of modern pop culture
Great late Stephen Hawking is known for his extensive work in the fields of quantum physics, focusing on general and...
Classical Guitar
Farewell to Stromness: the protest tune that fell into national consciousness
One of the most respected composers of his generation, Peter Maxwell Davies (1934–2016) bridged medieval and...
SONGWRITER
The Snows They Melt the Soonest survives through folk tradition
The Snows They Melt the Soonest is a British folk song dating back to at least as far as 1821. It was mentioned, along...
ORCHESTRA
Walks along Moldau river ended in the greatest symphonic poem of all time
Bedřich Smetana conceived a series of orchestral pieces based on the legends and landscapes of his homeland entitled Má...
PIANO
Ambient and classical mixed on the Orkney Islands
Erland Cooper is a Scottish producer and musician born and raised on Scottish archipelago of Orkney. Cooper spent years...
Classical Guitar
Stylistic diversity of acoustic guitar duo Oka Vanga
Oka Vanga—a play on the name ‘Okavango’, a river delta in Botswana—is the band name for South African born Angela Meyer...
Classical Guitar
Cuban guitar tradition of Leo Brouwer
Leo Brouwer has earned his legendary status as a contemporary composer for his extensive work in guitar music. He has...
Violin
Paganini's one-stringed soap opera
The life of Niccolò Paganini was surrounded by a number of legends. A particularly colorful story tells of Paganini...
HARPSICHORD
The Renaissance swan song for the English monarchy
Thomas Tomkins (1572–1656) was a prominent English composer of the generation that flourished in England in the late...
TRUMPET
Chet Baker: the divine voice of the West Coast jazz
Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. was born in 1929 in Yale, Oklahoma. The son of musically inclined parents, he sang in...
Violin
Wild harmony of the northern fjords by Nils Økland and Hardanger fiddle
Nils Økland is an innovative violinist and composer from Norway, instantly recognizable for his extensive use of the...
SONGWRITER
The Unthanks: keeping with the modern spirit of the English folk song
The Unthanks is an English group known for their eclectic approach in combining traditional Northumbrian folk with other...
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Liverpool FC and the famous You'll Never Walk Alone chant in a Pink Floyd track
You'll Never Walk Alone is a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel. The song has been...
HARPSICHORD
Isabella Leonarda: convent star of the Baroque era
Isabella Leonarda’s works include examples of nearly every sacred genre: motets and sacred concertos for one to four...
ORCHESTRA
The ever-evolving legend of Coriolanus
The Coriolan Overture, written by Ludwig van Beethoven, is an adaptation of Heinrich Joseph von Collin's tragedy...
Violin
Anne Dudley's BAFTA winning work is a marriage of pop and the classical
Composer, arranger, producer and performer, Anne Dudley is a multi-talented musician whose work encompasses pop and...
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