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  • The Ruins of Inverlochy Castle by Horatio McCulloch

    The sad beauty of slow air in Archibald MacDonald of Keppoch

    'Slow air' refers to the type of the Irish traditional music, first brought to a wider audience by the publishings of...
  • Consort Music LP

    Thomas Morley's legacy in English Renaissance tradition

    The Renaissance composer and organist Thomas Morley (c.1557-1602) is best known as the father of the English madrigal....
  • Duke Ellington

    Ellington's classic song established swing as a jazz form

    It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) is a 1931 composition by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Irving Mills,...
  • Gustav Holst by Millicent Lisle Woodforde

    Gustav Holst's famous folk suite was dedicated to his students

    Gustavus Theodore von Holst, a highly original and inventive composer, was born in England in 1874.  Holst was appointed...
  • Mendelssohn's picture

    The misty seascape embodied in Mendelssohn's surging overture

    The Hebrides, also called Hebrides Overture or Overture to the Lonely Isle, is an orchestra piece by Felix Mendelssohn,...
  • Galloway Travel poster

    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...
  • Joaquin Rodrigo LP cover

    The scent of magnolia permeating Joaquin Rodrigo's concerto

    It may come as a revelation that Joaquin Rodrigo wasn’t a guitarist, despite his contributions to the guitar repertoire...

  • Placements of hit tracks on albums rooted in vinyl era

    Establishing the track number for the album's title song might be one of the most vital things in production....
  • Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass LP

    Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass find a colorful meeting point for European and Indian classics

    Almost three decades have passed since Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar collaborated and released the work Passages - a...
  • Houses on the Old Bridge at Vernon by Claude Monet

    Who is the true architect behind The House of the Rising Sun?

    The authorship of The House of the Rising Sun can not be accurately determined to this day, since the song is a folk...
  • Serenade by Pablo Picasso

    Mozart's rewritten serenade inspired by street musicians

    The Serenade in E-flat major exists in two versions: a sextet of two clarinets, two bassoons, and two horns, and an...

  • Corelli's famous violin piece rearranged for oboe three centuries later

    One of the seminal figures of early Baroque, Arcangelo Corelli, was the master of violin which supremacy in the...
  • Leonardo da Vinci Painting The Mona Lisa by Cesare Maccari

    Da Vinci's painting process depended on music

    Leonardo Da Vinci was a master of many skills: architecture, astronomy, painting, sculpture, mathematics, anatomy,...
  • Disney's Rhapsody In Blue

    Defining Gershwin rhapsody was conceived on a train trip

    Rhapsody in Blue is one of the most performed of all American concert pieces, and its opening clarinet glissando is the...
  • Julian Bream LP

    Folk dances illuminate the heritage of Gaspar Sanz, the Baroque guitar maestro

    Composer, guitarist, organist and priest, Gaspar Sanz studied at the University of Salamanca, where he was later...
  • Kronos Quartet

    World musicians Kronos Quartet destroy the shackles of genre

    Since its founding in '70s, the Kronos Quartet has become the foremost herald of chamber music, successful at breaking...
  • Compay Segundo

    The irony of Cuban love song in the work of trova-musician Compay Segundo

    Chan Chan was written in 1987 by Cuban singer Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz Telles, known as Compay Segundo. The song...
  • Goethe in the Roman Campagna by Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein

    Beethoven was inspired by Goethe’s rhythmic poetry

    From 1809 to 1810, Beethoven composed the overture to Goethe’s play Egmont, depicting the life of the count of Egmont, a...
  • Mademoiselle Paradis film 2017

    The surviving pearl of Mademoiselle Paradis, contemporary of Mozart

    Maria Theresia von Paradis was a contemporary of Mozart and Haydn. She achieved significant glory as both a composer and...
  • Metallica with San Francisco Symphony LP

    Metallica with San Francisco Symphony: fresh & heavy atmosphere of modern opera

    It seemed like Metallica were running out of ideas at the end of the millennium. However, in 1999, they released S&M...

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