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Posted on April 19, 2019April 15, 2019

“Curlew Call”, Peter Bagshaw

The call of the curlew is its best known feature – indeed, the potential disappearance of this sound from the soundscape of the countryside is one of the most potent…

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Posted on April 18, 2019April 15, 2019

“The Curlew”, song cycle by Peter Warlock of Yeats poems.

One of the more colourful, if not notorious, characters of British music was Peter Warlock. Like Arnold Bax he gained much inspiration from a sojourn in Ireland “The Curlew” song…

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Posted on October 4, 2018

Like A Young Swan

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Posted on October 4, 2018October 5, 2018

Sinister Espie

Contains elements of “Lightsick”, Zola Jesus.

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Posted on September 3, 2018September 3, 2018

Blossom Dearie, “Somebody New”

I have long admired the singing of the late Blossom Dearie, who effortlessly conjured up a world of rueful sophistication with immaculate phrasing. “Blossom Dearie” was he real name. This…

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Posted on August 18, 2018

Play That Funky Classical Music White Boy

Raiding the vast (and out of copyright) canon of classical music has been a recurrent theme in popular music, from Frank Sinatra to The Farm to Eric Carmen (though Carmen’s…

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Posted on August 13, 2018November 11, 2018

Let’s Get Sophisticated! #SophistiPop Old and New …. with Bryan Ferry, ABC, Michael Franks, Destroyer, Red Box, Aztec Camera, Marshall Crenshaw and the Style Council

“Sophisti-Pop” is a subgenre of pop that takes musical elements from jazz, MOR, synthpop and what could be best called easy listening, and mixes them with a more literary-than-visceral, slightly…

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Posted on July 14, 2018

Piano minimalism from 1880 – Liszt’s “Via Crucis”, Reinbert de Leeuw

Liszt’s piano setting of his late work Via Crucis (originally for  choir, soloists and organ) has many passages that sound extraordinarily like Satie or other much later exponents of minimalism. Wikipedia…

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