Music for Life: 100 Works to Carry You Through

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If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for 65 € per month. The work had already stirred dangerous emotions in a railway refreshment room as the soundtrack to David Lean’s film Brief Encounter(1945).

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She dissolves into her story, surfacing only in wry asides and a tender, precise arrangement of material that builds to a deeply moving climax. Shaw says The Beech Tree is her “favourite spot in the garden”, for which the music is simple, ancient, elegant, quiet. Classical music has a reputation for being dusty and difficult, something you have to know about to “get”. There’s an unrivalled pleasure in playing chamber music: a joint venture in which merely getting through can be harder, and more rewarding, than you’d ever think.Fiona Maddocks was the founding editor of BBC Music Magazine and is now the classical music critic for The Observer. Two fellow Hungarian immigrants – the violinist Joseph Szigeti and the conductor Fritz Reiner – persuaded the great Russian conductor Serge Koussevitzky to commission him. Today we mark two events of 2023: for China’s lunar new year, the choice is the international piano star Yuja Wang, born in Beijing. For the first full moon of 2023, the orbed choice is Fauré’s Clair de lune, an ethereal setting of words by the poet Paul Verlaine from his collection Fêtes galantes (also set by Debussy). In this personal selection of "music to see you through", Fiona Maddocks, music critic of The Observer, gives succinct thoughts on the emotional import of works ranging from the evident to the surprising, in categories ranging from humour to mourning.

Music for Life: 100 Classical Works to Carry You Through

Dett was born in Canada into a Methodist family descended from escaped slaves, but grew up in America.Rumours and counter-rumours flew, in part set in motion by Mozart’s wife Constanze for fear that payment would not be made if the work was known to be unfinished. Alamy Illustration: Observer Design Rachmaninov, left to right: as a young man c1900; in exile with his wife, Natalya, 1928; conducting in the US, early 1940s. Nearly all the well-known pieces – three of the piano concertos, two of the symphonies – were written in Russia. Rose Tremain’s novel Music and Silence, set in the Danish court of Christian IV where Dowland was a well-paid musician, depicts him tellingly: “The man was all ambition and hatred, yet his ayres were as delicate as rain.

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This lament, with rapturous lute accompaniment, asks what can be done, what said, in the face of disaster.In this music, the spirits of the earth and air, Finnish style, are ever present in the strangeness of harmonium, harps and ghostly voices. Having published books on the 12th-century composer-nun Hildegard of Bingen and the avant-garde composer Harrison Birtwistle, I could see his point. Maddocks has written four books, [2] the first of which was a survey on the 12th-century composer Hildegard of Bingen in 2001. Neuware - Fiona Maddocks looks at how 100 particular pieces of classical music from across nine centuries exhibit different ways in which music inspires, comforts, delights or consoles.