Aideen McHugh
Aideen McHugh
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In The Bleak Midwinter
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Goldberg Variations, BMV 988 (1741) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)Goldberg Variations, BMV 988 (1741) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Goldberg Variations, BMV 988 (1741) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Просмотров 1893 года назад
Theme Variation 1 Variation 2 Variation 7 The Goldberg Variations are named after Johann Goldberg, a 14 year old harpsichord virtuoso, who was sent to study with J.S Bach by Count Kaiserling. Kaiserling suffered from terrible insomnia and requested that Bach composed a piece for Goldberg to play during the night in an adjacent antechamber “which should be of such a smooth and somewhat lively ch...
Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899) Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899) Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899) Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Просмотров 7 тыс.3 года назад
This piece was written as a piano piece for Princesse Edmond de Polignac and later orchestrated by Ravel himself. Today, many believe that this piece is about death, however Ravel stated that “it is not a funeral lament for a dead child, but rather an evocation of the pavane that might have been danced by such a little princess as painted by Velázquex”.
Between (composed in 1998)David Sawer (1961-)Between (composed in 1998)David Sawer (1961-)
Between (composed in 1998)David Sawer (1961-)
Просмотров 2173 года назад
‘It is the purity and precision of David Sawer’s music that immediately capture the ear, the restlessly shifting, twinkling, swirling surfaces of his always glittering streams of sound. Yet, after only a moment or two, one realises that beneath the immediacy of the changing surfaces of this music, in the darker, colder, more slowly moving water down below, there are strange shadows, shapes that...

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