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  • Queen II Album Cover

    Innovative Bohemian Rhapsody set new standards for the music video production

    Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen is one of the strangest and least-understood songs in the rock genre. It comes across as an...
  • The Menin Road by Paul Nash

    English Idyll through the eyes of the Lost Generation hero

    Promising English composer George Butterworth appeared to show no interest in writing symphonic music, instead...
  • The Kampa Lovers by Jakub Schikaneder

    Dvorak's string serenade is a mirror of his blissful years

    For Antonin Dvořák, 1875 was a grand time for both creative productivity and wholesome family life. The birth of his...
  • Stolen Moments

    Nelson's time in the Marines inspired his future composer career

    Oliver Edward Nelson (1932–1975) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He is best remembered for...
  • Tilda Swinton

    Orlando's director sang the score's leitmotifs

    Sally Potter’s film Orlando follows the life of an eponymous, time traveling, androgynous nobleman who transforms from a...
  • Rodrigo y Gabriela

    Classical flamenco duo rising from Mexican heavy metal band

    Internationally acclaimed Mexican acoustic duo Rodrigo y Gabriela plays unique instrumental blend of flamenco, jazz, and...
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    Desh Raag as universal music scale

    Desh Raag is a beautiful and melodious indian classical piece, also called Monsoon Raga, which is often played at night...
  • White Stripes

    Seven Nation Army riff conquers sport and classical music

    It seems that since the initial release of the White Stripes' Seven Nation Army in 2003, the crowds at sporting events...
  • Harp strings

    Famous harp masterpiece was created to show off a new instrument

    François-Adrien Boieldieu's output of instrumental music was initially meager and virtually ceased once he became one of...
  • The Serenade by Eugene de Blaas

    Comic 'Italienische Serenade' was the end of Hugo Wolf

    The inspiration for the Italian Serenade came to Hugo Wolf from the novella Leben eines Taugenichts by the German...

  • Bach's brilliant cello suites survived thanks to Anna Magdalena

    The Bach collection of six suites for solo cello may have been written around 1720 as basic practice pieces intended to...
  • Hugh Laurie

    [H]ouse playlist is a remedy for everyone

    American medical drama House, M.D. is not just an excellent guide to understanding actual diseases, but it also contains...
  • Jordi Savall

    Authentic recreation of Alfonso X El Sabio's medieval works

    Alfonso X el Sabio, byname Alfonso the Wise, or the Learned (1221-1284) was the king of Castile and Leon. Along with his...
  • Pi bike designed by Martijn Koomen and Tadas Maksimovas 

    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...
  • Kate Bush's Never For Ever LP

    MTV and EMI did not appreciate the concept of Kate Bush's iconic Running Up That Hill

    Running Up That Hill, initially titled A Deal with God, is no doubt the most iconic work of Kate Bush which came to life...
  • Tutt Art by Ian Ramsay

    The lost Haydn concerto was found among the Czech castle documents

    Cello Concerto in C demonstrates the many facets that are unique to the cello only, from growling low chords to sweet...
  • Peter Grimes LP

    Peter Grimes outdoor premiere at Benjamin Britten's home beach

    Despite reports that Benjamin Britten paced nervously at the back of the Sadler’s Wells Theatre when Peter Grimes first...
  • Abbey Lincoln LP

    The swan song of Abbey Lincoln, the voice of human rights

    Abbey Lincoln, born Anna Marie Wooldridge, was a popular American jazz singer who wrote songs about black culture and...
  • Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi

    The Blues Brothers' greatest gamble becoming one of their most enduring hits

    The Blues Brothers were once the stars of their era, listed among the most popular groups of the late '70s. Vocalist...
  • The Hill of the Alhambra, Granada by Samuel Colman

    Granada: Albéniz's tribute for the city of guitar craft

    The first piano solo of Isaac Albéniz, Suite Española, is probably the first testimony of the artistic renaissance of...

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