‘Music Was Meant to Be’ Few cellists can lay claim to the breadth and inventiveness of a career such as Santiago Cañón-Valencia. A self-confessed ‘soloist, composer, commissioner, recording artist, painter and photographer’, his prominence on the traditional concert platform, appearing
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The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Alfred Brendel and Imogen Cooper
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“In Silence, we can truly hear the voice of God” Ten years ago, on 12 November 2013, the British composer John Tavener (1944-2013) died at his home in Child Okeford, Dorset. Tavener had been battling considerable health problems throughout his
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Benet Casablancas: Four Darks in Red, After Rothko Although normally on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Mark Rothko’s 1958 Four Darks in Red was on loan to the Tate Modern in London when Catalan
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The work is a gem of not only Brahms’ humour but also of his consummate skill as a composer. On the surface, the drinking songs come to the fore, but it’s what’s under them that shows Brahms’ work: clever countermelodies, orchestration that both underscores the humour and creates the academic quality of the work, and the use of orchestral colour.
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We have musically explored the Old Testament, the original Hebrew Bible, and the sacred scriptures of the Jewish faith. The second section of the Bible is the New Testament, written by Christians in the first century AD. It is a