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Symphony of the Week X

Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901) Symphony no. 1 in D minor, Opus 10 "Wallenstein" (1866) According to the Oxford Dictionary of Music, the...

Symphony of the Week IX

Victorin de Joncie`res (1839-1903) Symphonie Romantique (1873) "The history of the symphony in France is quickly told, for there are...

Symphony of the Week VIII

Friedrich Gernsheim (1839-1916) Symphony no. 3 in C minor (Miriam) Op. 54 (1887) During his lifetime, and for about twenty years...

Symphony of the Week VII

Théodore Dubois (1837-1924) - Symphony No. 1 (Symphonie Française) (1908) Clément François Théodore Dubois was one of the great...

Symphony of the Week VI

Mily Balakirev (1837-1910) Symphony no. 2 in D minor (1908) In his personally guarded but often shrewdly observant memoir, My Musical...

Symphonies of the Week V

Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) Symphony in A major (c.1850) & Symphony no. 1 in Eb major (1853) I do know those who profess to find...

Symphony of the Week IV

Felix Draeseke (1835-1913) Symphony no. 4 in G major ("Sinfonia Comica") (1912) If Robert Radecke, the composer of last week's symphony,...

Symphony of the Week III

Robert Radecke (1839-1911) Symphony in F Major, Op.50 (1877) What little I have been able to glean about the life of the German/Silesian...

Symphony of the Week II

Karoly (Karl) Goldmark (1830 - 1915) Symphony no.1 ("Rustic Wedding") Op. 26 (1875) This week, something wonderful. Of all the...

Symphony of the Week No. 1

First, some news, Typee Valley has been listed by https://blog.feedspot.com/classical_music_blogs as one of the top blogs for writing on...

Sincerity and Sin

I have work to do. As anyone following this blog - and, amazingly, there do still appear to be people following it - will realise, I have...

Lights, Signs and Slaughter

This is the first of what is aiming to be an occasional series of shortish posts appearing on both this blog and on the site of the Ely...

Great Stones Way 2 - Rainy Road to Avebury

On Saturday, October 2nd, I wake up to a sky that looks almost impossibly grey after the warm autumnal hues of the previous evening....

Great Stones Way 1 - Swindoniad

Swindon, I suppose, is a town not entirely without its small reserves of cultural capital. Aside from its importance as a railway...

BSW and Me

"There's more important things in life than't band." "Not in my life there ain't." Brassed Off (1996) In my last post I promised to...

Kane Again

For most of my lifetime there was near unanimity; Citizen Kane was the greatest film ever made. In 1962 it leapt to the top of the Sight...

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