Simon RushbyFeb 8, 20211 minChocolat 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 RushbyFeb 5, 20211 minSonata 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 RushbyFeb 4, 20212 minBallade 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 RushbyFeb 3, 20212 minOne 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 RushbyFeb 2, 20212 minLiquid 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 RushbyFeb 1, 20212 minNight by Florence Price#listeneveryday 1 Feb 2021 We return this week, with a slightly new hashtag, and a beautiful song by American composer...
Simon RushbyNov 30, 20201 minLiamuiga (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 RushbyNov 27, 20202 minLa 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 RushbyNov 26, 20201 minDebe 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 RushbyNov 25, 20201 minPrelude 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 RushbyNov 24, 20201 minDiablo Rojo by Rodrigo y Gabriela#listeneveryday 24 Nov 2020 Thanks to Dave Cunningham for suggesting this fantastic Mexican acoustic guitar duo for a...
Simon RushbyNov 23, 20201 minSeptember 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 RushbyNov 20, 20201 minPrelude 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 RushbyNov 19, 20201 minGabriel'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 RushbyNov 18, 20202 minFragile 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 RushbyNov 17, 20201 minKajar 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 RushbyNov 16, 20201 minSymphony 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 RushbyNov 13, 20202 minLondon 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 RushbyNov 12, 20202 minThunder Road by Bruce Springsteen#listeneveryday 12 Nov 2020 The opening track on Springsteen's iconic 1975 album Born To Run and perhaps one of the...
Simon RushbyNov 11, 20202 minThe Lads In Their Hundreds by George Butterworth#listeneveryday 11 Nov 2020 The lads in their hundreds to Ludlow come in for the fair, There's men from the barn and...