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John Kinsella plays and discusses his 6th Symphony, Prelude and Toccata, and lovely Homage a Clarence
JOHN KINSELLA WAS Born in Dublin in 1932, He studied viola at the College of Music (now the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama) in Dublin. He had early success with a. number of works written in the style of serial tone poems, accepted for performance by RTÉ ensembles, including A Selected Life (1973), a…
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John Kinsella plays and discusses his 5th Symphony, “The 1916 Poets,” and his 10th Symphony.
Of all his 11 symphonies, I regard his 5th as special — it’s always tricky to include the spoken work in a symphonic work, but Kinsella brings it off with appropriate pathos and brio.
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Composer John Kinsella plays excerpts and discusses his 3rd Symphony, “Joie de vivre.”
Before his death, John Kinsella graciously recorded a number of interviews with about his music, including all his symphonies. I was able to surprise him backstage in Dublin about the premiere of his 11th Symphony. John was one of kindest men I have ever met.
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The music of Paul Hindemith is played and discussed by music critic and scholar Guy Rickards.
Hindemith is one of the those composers who wrote in many styles from modernist and complicated to more of a late romantic style easier on the ear. His wife was a Catholic convert and the composer himself obviously had a serious interest in things spiritual.
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Kenneth Woods, the conductor of the English Symphony Orchestra, joined me to play and discuss some marvelous music he has recently recorded. Ken plays music by the British composers Matthew Taylor and Philip Sawyers.
These new words by Matthew Taylor and Philip Sawyers both demonstrate the tradition we call ‘classical music’ remains vitally alive.
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Conductor Ken Woods joins me to discuss Mahler’s 9th Symphony.
Ken Woods plays and discuss excerpts from Mahler’s 9th Symphony including some from his own recording with the English Symphony Orchestra. Few pieces of music are more powerful in depicting the searching bewilderment of the early 20th Century.
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