Category: Church and Culture Radio Interviews 2019
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A discussion with Daniel M. Grimley about his book, Delius and the Sound of Place @deliussociety, @brownhawker, @classicalcritic, @cambridgeup,
Few composers have responded as powerfully to place as Frederick Delius (1862–1934). Born in Yorkshire, Delius resided in the United States, Germany, and Scandinavia before settling in France, where he spent the majority of his professional career. This book examines the role of place in selected works, including ‘On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring’,…
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Composer John Bortslap discusses Wagner’s Parsifal, Der Meistersinger, and The Ring @ BostonWagner, @LSHMWAH,@ClassicalCritic, @kenwoods, @BrendanEWK,
Some comments about John Bortslap and his music: Alfred Brendel, pianist: ‘Borstlap’s Fantasia captures splendidly the spirit of Liszt’s late music, and develops it in a personal and convincing way.’ Libor Pesek, Conductor Laureate of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra: ‘I was immediately captured by the way he creates music. John Borstlap is the rare sort of…
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Dutch Composer John Bortslap plays and explains how Christianity ungirds Western music @LSHMWAH,@ClassicalCritic, @kenwoods, @BrendanEWK, @radical_middle, @francis_ogorman,
John Borstlap is a composer and author on cultural subjects, covering music and the visual arts. As a composer, he has been pioneering with a revival of tonal traditions since the seventies of the 20th century, comparable with a similar movement in contemporary architecture: new classicism. Although born in the Netherlands, his music is rooted…
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Guy Rickards plays and discusses the music of Franz Schmidt @LSHMWAH,@ClassicalCritic, @kenwoods, @BrendanEWK, @fschmidtproject,
Franz Schmidt was born on 22 December 1874 in Preßburg. The Schmidt family – part of it was of Hungarian origin – moved to Vienna in 1888. This meant for the musical ‘prodigy’ that he was able to study at the former ‘Conservatory of the Society of the Friends of Music’. Franz Schmidt influenced the…
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Brendan Carroll discusses the life and work of Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Brendan Carroll is the president of the International Korngold Society and the author of the definitive biography of the composer — The Last Prodigy: A Biography of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, 1997, Amadeus Press.
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