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Robert Schumann ‘Piano Concerto in A Minor’: The One and Only

Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor Context Over the course of his lifetime Robert Schumann only composed one piano concerto. It was completed in 1845 and premiered in Dresden in December of the same year. Schumann’s wife, Clara Schumann, premiered the concerto. The work is dedicated to Ferdinand Hiller, Read more…

By Alex Burns, 3 years3 years ago
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Mikhail Glinka ‘Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture’: Fizzing with Excitement

Mikhail Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmila Overture Context Composed between 1837-42, Mikhail Glinka’s opera Ruslan and Lyudmila is based on Alexander Pushkin’s poem of the same name. Split into five acts, the opera’s libretto was written by Valerian Shirkov, Nestor Kukolnik and N.A. Markevich. Seldom performed as a full-scale opera today, Read more…

By Alex Burns, 3 years3 years ago
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Carl Nielsen ‘Symphony 2 – The Four Temperaments’: A Character Study

Carl Nielsen: Symphony No.2 ‘The Four Temperaments’ Context Carl Nielsen was born in 1865 on the island of Funen (the third-largest island that is a part of Denmark). The Nielsen family were incredibly poor, however, his parents were keen musicians, with his father playing cornet and his mother, a singer. Read more…

By Alex Burns, 3 years3 years ago
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Jean Sibelius ‘Kuolema (Death) No. 2 ‘Scene with Cranes”: Flying towards Freedom

Jean Sibelius: Scene with Cranes Context Jean Sibelius was born on 8th December 1865 in Hämeenlinna Finland. When he was ten years old, Sibelius was given a violin by his musical uncle, who soon became his musical tutor. Before studying music at university, Sibelius studied at the Imperial Alexander University, Read more…

By Alex Burns, 3 years3 years ago
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Ralph Vaughan Williams ‘Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus’: A Reminiscent Journey

Ralph Vaughan Williams: Five Variants of Dives & Lazarus Context As an avid collector of English folksong, Vaughan Williams used a lot of throughout his career. As can be seen from a menagerie of his works from Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and In the Fen Country, Vaughan Read more…

By Alex Burns, 3 years3 years ago
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Chen Yi ‘Ge Xu – Antiphony’: Atmospheric Antiphony

Chen Yi: Ge Xu Context Chen Yi was born in Guanzhou, China in 1953. She was born into a talented family of both doctors and musicians, and so from a young age Yi began learning violin. Her siblings were known as child prodigies within musical performance, so Yi had a Read more…

By Alex Burns, 3 years3 years ago
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Camille Saint-Saëns ‘Le Rouet d’Omphale’: Spin the Wheel!

Camille Saint-Saëns: Le Rouet d’Omphale Context Camille Saint-Saëns’ symphonic poem Le Rouet d’Omphale (‘Omphale’s Spinning Wheel)  was his first in the genre. Originally composed as a piano work in 1871, Saint-Saëns orchestrated it for orchestra and it received its premiere in Paris 1872. At the start of the score Saint-Saëns Read more…

By Alex Burns, 3 years3 years ago
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Richard Wagner ‘The Flying Dutchman Overture’: High Tide Season

Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman Overture Context Plagued by high tides, crashing waves and dramatic twists and turns, Richard Wagner’s overture to his 1843 opera The Flying Dutchman remains a concert hall favourite. This drama-filled story of the Flying Dutchman reaching for redemption through the love of a faithful woman Read more…

By Alex Burns, 3 years3 years ago
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Amir Mahyar Tafreshipour ‘Persian Echoes’: Harp Concerto

Amir Mahyar Tafreshipour: Persian Echoes Context Commissioned by the BBC Symphony Orchestra in 2006, Amir Mahyar Tafreshipour’s Persian Echoes for harp and orchestra was the first ever Iranian harp concerto. Persian Echoes brings together sounds from the East and West, incorporating traditional Persian music and folk melodies, with rich Western Read more…

By Alex Burns, 3 years3 years ago
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ‘Piano Concerto No.22’: An Expansive Statement

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 Context Composed in Vienna in December 1785, Mozart’s 22nd piano concerto is part of his more sophisticated collection of works. Mozart had received great success from a series of piano concertos in Vienna since his arrival there in 1781. In early 1785, Mozart’s Read more…

By Alex Burns, 3 years3 years ago

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