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2024-02-26 14:02:00
A Vast Obscurity: SongEasel bringings song celebrations to South East London including Gabriel Fauré's centenary
[…] Church, Catford on 16 June for a concert celebrating Shakespeare with music by from the Baroque to the present day including Arne, McDowall, Samuel, Ruiz, and Finzi's Let us garlands bring. Finally, Mark Padmore and Jocelyn Freeman close the festival with The Wanderer and the Scholar on 21 June at St Stephen's Church, Dulwich by returning to two figures associated with Lord Byron, his Dulwich classmates, the celebrated pedestrian Captain Robert Barclay and Major-General John Gaspard Le Marchant, with music by Beethoven, Schubert, C. Schumann, Vaughan Williams, and Macmillan. Audiences can revel in the summer solstice with a day trip to Dulwich, enjoying a guided, historical walk around Dulwich Wood before settling in for this evening of exquisite song.There are less formal events too. A special Fauré Listening Club event on 21 April, curated and introduced by Dr. Emily Kilpatrick, will celebrate some of the composer’s best-loved works in an informal setting, free […]
2020-04-06 11:12:00
Great composers do not need fifteen minutes of Twitter fame
[…] music and indeed classical music. Or has it? At the beginning of the post I proposed that Silvestrov is a composer for our conflicted time. During lockdown I have found it very easy to resist the self-indulgent YouTube outpourings of the classical music community. Instead I have found solace in the great music in my CD collection including Valentin Silvestrov's, and in the stimulating books on my library shelves. One of those books is Ian Marchant's A Hero for High Times. So instead of concluding with a YouTube selfie of me playing Bach badly, I will leave you with a quote from that book addressed to the author's grandaughter: Just like every other human in history, you have been born into a world that is broken. I don't know if the world can be mended. On the evidence of what I've seen, I almost want to say it can't […]
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Clairvoyant Classical Music
2019-12-27 16:21:25
This marvelous recording has not appeared on CD. The full home recital exists but we have not located it yet: Egon Petri – Liszt/Busoni Legend No. 2 “St François de Paule: Marchant sur les flots” (1951)
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ArtsJournal: music
2018-05-02 18:04:44
Another Reason The Whole Shakespeare-Couldn't-Have-Written-Shakespeare Argument Is Ridiculous
Most of the Will-Shakespeare-of-Stratford skeptics, such as Mark Rylance, seem convinced that no one from a 16th-century small-city artisan-Marchant background could possibly have written such artful and erudite drama. That's ridiculous because, points out Oxford historian Jonathan Healey, "many, perhaps most, of the greatest minds of the age were people of 'middling' origins."
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