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21st Century Classical
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ORCHESTRA
Ravel's La Valse and the duel that wasn't
Completed by Maurice Ravel in 1920, La Valse stands as a remarkable composition distinguished by its innovative waltz...
PIANO
Estampes: the world cultures of Debussy's imagination
Estampes, conceived as a three-piece piano suite by the French Impressionist Claude Debussy, is rightfully recognized as...
PIANO
Nuvole Blanche: the critical simplicity of Einaudi's best-known piece
Nuvole Blanche is one of the best-known piano pieces by the Italian composer Ludovico Einaudi released on his 2004 album...
FILM
Concerning Hobbits: portraying home with the penny whistle
Concerning Hobbits is a two-minute tune originally composed by Canadian composer Howard Shore for Peter Jackson's 2001...
FILM
Hedwig’s Theme: magical mood cast by the celesta melody
Hedwig's Theme, also known as the main theme of all eight Harry Potter films, was the first piece written by John...
Contemporary Composer
The meaningless song lyrics of Adiemus
Adiemus is a cross-genre project conceived by Welsh composer and multi-instrumentalist Karl Jenkins to refresh...
Nature Sounds
Classical music examples imitating bees and buzzing insects
The seemingly monotonous buzz that bees emit is a developed communicative function allowing these social insects to...
OBOE
The dramatic-abstract of Thea Musgrave's music as influenced by serialism
Thea Musgrave is a Scottish-American composer whose formative years fell on the mid-1950s when revolutionary musical...
Music Theory
Classic examples of the Phrygian mode through the music eras
From Middle Ages to modernity, Western music has been largely based on diatonic scales that organize seven notes into...
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Game
Nobuo Uematsu refreshed prog rock concepts for his epic Final Fantasy score
Being a self-taught musician, Nobuo Uematsu accidentally entered the world of video game development where, quite...
KORA
African bard Foday Musa Suso represents griot culture by mixing kora music with Western minimalism and jazz
The most important role in the preservation of tradition in the culture of West Africa has been played by...
Game
The quiet adventure in the warm depths of Abzû game scored by Austin Wintory
American composer Austin Wintory made history after becoming the creator of the first-ever Grammy-nominated videogame...
FLUTE
Japanese traditions meet Western avant-garde in reflective tunes of Toshio Hosokawa
Japanese contemporary composer of extraordinary aerial themes, Toshio Hosokawa, draws inspiration from the ancient...
Contemporary Composer
The path to Earth's orbit for Errollyn Wallen's music
A modern composer, songwriter, and singer Errollyn Wallen was recounted by The Observer as a "renaissance woman of...
Collaboration
Nordic folk fiddle reshapes polished classical sound in the music of Gjermund Larsen
Gjermund Larsen is a Norwegian musician and composer who dedicated his career to the music of his native land. His work...
Collaboration
Literary recital for fiddle and harmonium with British flavour
A rare duo that brings together two of Britain's foremost folk and jazz artists was formed by a Scottish fiddler Aidan...
Classical Guitar
The fine blend of styles and cultures of the Assad brothers
Brazilian-born brothers Sérgio and Odair Assad have set the benchmark for every classical guitarist by creating a new...
FILM
Full-method approach to the score for Shakespeare's play
The classic Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice had seen many adaptations, one of them a 2004 venture for the big...
TECHNOLOGIES
Pi for Piano in A minor
Everyone knows that Pi is a mathematical symbol representing the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, but...
HARDANGER FIDDLE
You can't stay still when you hear the reel
The Shetland islands, located between Norway and Scotland, has always had their folk music at the crossroads of two...
Violin
Max Richter's modern upgrade of The Four Seasons
Vivaldi's The Four Seasons could be rightfully called the most noted work of classical music. Contemporary composer Max...
ORCHESTRA
The sounds of scenic Iceland in the Aeriality orchestral piece
Anna Thorvaldsdottir is an Icelandic composer whose music is now often played around Europe and the US, captivating the...
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...
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