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ENDNOTES, March 2022
Endnotes, March 2022 A portrait of Sir Michael Tippett, by Stuart Millson Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippett dominated post-war British music. Both pacifists, the two composers shared many musical traits: a love of opera and desire to see British opera … Continue reading
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Tagged Aurora Orchestra, Benjamin Britten, Mahler, Michael Tippett, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Roderick Williams
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ENDNOTES, June 2018
ENDNOTES, June 2018 In this edition: a world première at the English Music Festival; preview of the 2018 Welsh Proms. For those of us driving from the South East, via Wokingham and Henley, the road to Dorchester-on-Thames (home of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Wright, Delius, Dorchester Abbey, Em Marshall-Luck, EMF, Paul Nash, Roderick Williams, Welsh Proms
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ENDNOTES, 10th November 2017
ENDNOTES, 10th November 2017 In this edition: Celebrating English Song – a new release from Somm Recordings, reviewed by STUART MILLSON Taken largely from the early-20th-century ‘English songbook’ (the music of Butterworth, Ireland, Vaughan Williams, Gurney and Warlock) Somm’s new … Continue reading
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Tagged AE Housman, George Butterworth, Ivor Gurney, John Ireland, Roderick Williams, Somm records
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