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  • King Crimson LP

    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...
  • The Duet by Cornelis Saftleven

    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...
  • Stephen Hawking

    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...
  • Stromness, Orkney Islands by Geoff Wong

    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...
  • If on a Winter's Night LP

    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...
  • Vltava river in Prague

    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...

  • 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...
  • Oka Vanga CD cover

    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...
  • Leo Brouwer

    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...
  • Niccolo Paganini by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

    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...
  • Worchester Cathedral

    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...
  • Chet Baker

    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...
  • Nils Økland

    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...
  • The Unthanks

    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...

  • 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...
  • Novara Duomo by Alessandro Vecchi

    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...
  • Coriolan supplié par sa famille by Nicolas Poussin

    The ever-evolving legend of Coriolanus

    The Coriolan Overture, written by Ludwig van Beethoven, is an adaptation of Heinrich Joseph von Collin's tragedy...
  • Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie

    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...
  • Ali Akbar Khan

    Ali Akbar Khan: the true guru of Indian classical harmony

    The first key point of Indian classical music is its structure. Unlike the Western canons, it is structured horizontally...
  • Space Oddity LP

    Starman's mission made possible at last with Musk sending Bowie to the stars

    In February 2018, the 1st Falcon Heavy Rocket was successfully launched, carrying on board a Tesla Roadster car which...

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