Tag: Classical Connections
Classical Connections: The Scottish influence
I played Max Bruch’s first violin concerto when I was fourteen. Not the solo violin part you understand, because I cannot play the violin....
Classical Connections: Give me five
Until yesterday, I always thought that a quintet was either a group of five musicians, or a piece of music written for them. It...
Classical Connections: Rivers of Life
“A river,” wrote Laura Gilpin, “seems a magic thing … a magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.” Now Laura Gilpin you...
Classical Connections: Just a Minuet
A few days ago, having nothing much of importance to do, I read a short story by the 19th century master of the genre,...
Classical Connections: Morning Fix
As a young teenager, I invariably used to listen to Bach’s music first thing in the morning before going to school. A fix of...
Classical Connections: And all that jazz…
As a music student, I often used visit the 100 Club in London’s Oxford Street. It was a smoky, seedy sort of place in...
Classical Connections: War Games
On Thursday, 11th September 1591 John Baldwin added the finishing touches to his elegantly hand-written collection of keyboard music, entitled My Ladye Nevells Booke.
Baldwin...
Classical Connections: Only a Matter of Time
Near the beginning of almost every piece of printed music there are two numbers, one above the other, like a fraction. It’s called a...
Classical Connections: Thy Sea-Encircled Isle
This evocative phrase was created by the eighteenth century English composer Benjamin Cooke, who was organist at Westminster Abbey and master of the Abbey’s...
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