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    Chocolat by Rachel Portman
    Simon Rushby
    • Feb 8, 2021
    • 1 min

    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...
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    Sonata for Viola (1st movement) by Rebecca Clarke
    Simon Rushby
    • Feb 5, 2021
    • 1 min

    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,...
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    Ballade for Orchestra by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
    Simon Rushby
    • Feb 4, 2021
    • 2 min

    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...
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    One Song Glory from Rent by Jonathan Larson
    Simon Rushby
    • Feb 3, 2021
    • 2 min

    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...
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    Liquid Light from Everybody's Gone to the Rapture by Jessica Curry
    Simon Rushby
    • Feb 2, 2021
    • 2 min

    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...
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    Night by Florence Price
    Simon Rushby
    • Feb 1, 2021
    • 2 min

    Night by Florence Price

    #listeneveryday 1 Feb 2021 We return this week, with a slightly new hashtag, and a beautiful song by American composer...
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    Liamuiga (Cook Up) by Courtney Pine
    Simon Rushby
    • Nov 30, 2020
    • 1 min

    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...
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    La Soirée dans Grenade by Claude Debussy
    Simon Rushby
    • Nov 27, 2020
    • 2 min

    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...
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    Debe by Toumani Diabaté and Ali Farka Touré
    Simon Rushby
    • Nov 26, 2020
    • 1 min

    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...
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    Prelude from Cello Suite No.1 in G major - J.S. Bach
    Simon Rushby
    • Nov 25, 2020
    • 1 min

    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...
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    Diablo Rojo by Rodrigo y Gabriela
    Simon Rushby
    • Nov 24, 2020
    • 1 min

    Diablo Rojo by Rodrigo y Gabriela

    #listeneveryday 24 Nov 2020 Thanks to Dave Cunningham for suggesting this fantastic Mexican acoustic guitar duo for a...
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    September Song by Kurt Weill (sung by Frank Sinatra)
    Simon Rushby
    • Nov 23, 2020
    • 1 min

    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...
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    Prelude in D major by Sergei Rachmaninoff
    Simon Rushby
    • Nov 20, 2020
    • 1 min

    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...
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    Gabriel's Oboe by Ennio Morricone
    Simon Rushby
    • Nov 19, 2020
    • 1 min

    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,...
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    Fragile by Sting (featuring Stevie Wonder)
    Simon Rushby
    • Nov 18, 2020
    • 2 min

    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...
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    Kajar Bin Kare by Karsh Kale feat. Salim Merchant
    Simon Rushby
    • Nov 17, 2020
    • 1 min

    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...
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    Symphony No. 5 (3rd movement) by Jean Sibelius
    Simon Rushby
    • Nov 16, 2020
    • 1 min

    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...
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    London Town by Bellowhead
    Simon Rushby
    • Nov 13, 2020
    • 2 min

    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...
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    Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen
    Simon Rushby
    • Nov 12, 2020
    • 2 min

    Thunder 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...
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    The Lads In Their Hundreds by George Butterworth
    Simon Rushby
    • Nov 11, 2020
    • 2 min

    The 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...
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