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Three Romances for Violin and Piano by Clara Schumann
#listeneveryday 10 Feb 2021 Clara Wieck was a German pianist and composer, born in 1819 in Leipzig. She lived with her...

Simon Rushby
Feb 10, 20212 min read


Miserere mei, Deus by Gregorio Allegri
#listeneveryday 9 Feb 2021 In the 1630s, a member of the Sistine Chapel choir, Gregorio Allegri, composed a setting of...

Simon Rushby
Feb 9, 20212 min read


Chocolat by Rachel Portman
#listeneveryday 8 Feb 2021 We're stepping into the world of film today, and Rachel Portman's music for the 2000 film...

Simon Rushby
Feb 8, 20211 min read


Sonata for Viola (1st movement) by Rebecca Clarke
#listeneveryday 5 Feb 2021 Today's blog brings together two things that are not heard enough: music for solo viola,...

Simon Rushby
Feb 5, 20211 min read


Ballade for Orchestra by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
#listeneveryday 4 Feb 2021 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (named after, but not to be confused with, the poet Samuel Taylor...

Simon Rushby
Feb 4, 20212 min read


One Song Glory from Rent by Jonathan Larson
#listeneveryday 3 Feb 2021 Jonathan Larson's musical Rent premiered in New York in 1996 and ran on Broadway for 12...

Simon Rushby
Feb 3, 20212 min read


Liquid Light from Everybody's Gone to the Rapture by Jessica Curry
#listeneveryday 2 Feb 2021 Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is an adventure game for PS4 and PC, first released in...

Simon Rushby
Feb 2, 20212 min read


Night by Florence Price
#listeneveryday 1 Feb 2021 We return this week, with a slightly new hashtag, and a beautiful song by American composer...

Simon Rushby
Feb 1, 20212 min read


Liamuiga (Cook Up) by Courtney Pine
#listeneveryday 30 Nov 2020 Courtney Pine is a multi-instrumentalist best known as one of British jazz's key exponents...

Simon Rushby
Nov 30, 20201 min read


La Soirée dans Grenade by Claude Debussy
#listeneveryday 27 Nov 2020 This week we've been to the US, Mexico, Germany and Mali, and we end our little trip in...

Simon Rushby
Nov 27, 20202 min read


Debe by Toumani Diabaté and Ali Farka Touré
#listeneveryday 26 Nov 2020 The kora is a kind of hybrid - part harp, part lute - that is associated chiefly with the...

Simon Rushby
Nov 26, 20201 min read


Prelude from Cello Suite No.1 in G major - J.S. Bach
#listeneveryday 25 Nov 2020 We're well into week 4 of #listeneveryday and we haven't had any Bach yet - time to put...

Simon Rushby
Nov 25, 20201 min read


Diablo Rojo by Rodrigo y Gabriela
#listeneveryday 24 Nov 2020 Thanks to Dave Cunningham for suggesting this fantastic Mexican acoustic guitar duo for a...

Simon Rushby
Nov 24, 20201 min read


September Song by Kurt Weill (sung by Frank Sinatra)
#listeneveryday 23 Nov 2020 September Song first appeared in the 1938 Broadway musical Knickerbocker Holiday, which...

Simon Rushby
Nov 23, 20201 min read


Prelude in D major by Sergei Rachmaninoff
#listeneveryday 20 Nov 2020 The Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) is best known for his Piano Concerto...

Simon Rushby
Nov 20, 20201 min read


Gabriel's Oboe by Ennio Morricone
#listeneveryday 19 Nov 2020 Ennio Morricone, who died in July this year, was one of the greatest film composers,...

Simon Rushby
Nov 19, 20201 min read


Fragile by Sting (featuring Stevie Wonder)
#listeneveryday 18 Nov 2020 In April 1987 American engineer Ben Linder was working on a small hydroelectric dam in a...

Simon Rushby
Nov 18, 20202 min read


Kajar Bin Kare by Karsh Kale feat. Salim Merchant
#listeneveryday 17 Nov 2020 Karsh Kale is a producer and songwriter who has spent his career developing fusions of...

Simon Rushby
Nov 17, 20201 min read


Symphony No. 5 (3rd movement) by Jean Sibelius
#listeneveryday 16 Nov 2020 For a lot of music students and particularly composers, if you mention 'Sibelius' the mind...

Simon Rushby
Nov 16, 20201 min read


London Town by Bellowhead
#listeneveryday 13 Nov 2020 Folk musicians Jon Boden and John Spiers were sitting in a traffic jam in 2004 when they...

Simon Rushby
Nov 13, 20202 min read
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