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Simon Rushby
Mar 5, 20212 min read
Adagio Assai from Piano Concerto in G by Maurice Ravel
#listeneveryday 5 Mar 2021 The final post in this current run of #listeneveryday is of one of my personal favourites,...
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Simon Rushby
Mar 4, 20212 min read
Anxiety by Astor Piazzolla
#listeneveryday 4 Mar 2021 The Argentinian bandoneon player and composer Astor Piazzolla grew up in New York and...
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Simon Rushby
Mar 3, 20211 min read
HoppÃpolla by Sigur Rós
#listeneveryday 3 Mar 2021 Sigur Rós is an Icelandic band formed in ReykjavÃk in 1994. Their name means 'victory rose'...
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Simon Rushby
Mar 2, 20212 min read
Georgia On My Mind by Ray Charles (written by Hoagy Carmichael)
#listeneveryday 2 Mar 2021 Songwriter and bandleader Hoagy Carmichael wrote Georgia On My Mind in 1930, while he was...
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![Larghetto from Violin Concerto in D by Beethoven](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/589e44_b21865bb0db74fc0b4e1464a9e6619c3~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_393,h_325,fp_0.50_0.50,q_95,enc_auto/589e44_b21865bb0db74fc0b4e1464a9e6619c3~mv2.webp)
Simon Rushby
Mar 1, 20212 min read
Larghetto from Violin Concerto in D by Beethoven
#listeneveryday 1 Mar 2021 We begin this week with some long-overdue Beethoven, and in this piece find him in a...
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Simon Rushby
Feb 26, 20212 min read
What It Means To Be A Friend by Jason Robert Brown
#listeneveryday 26 Feb 2021 Jason Robert Brown is a composer, pianist and conductor who was born in New York in 1970...
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Simon Rushby
Feb 25, 20212 min read
You Can Get It If You Really Want by Jimmy Cliff
#listeneveryday 25 Feb 2021 This iconic song is one of four written by Jimmy Cliff that featured on the soundtrack to...
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Simon Rushby
Feb 24, 20211 min read
Barcarolle by Amy Beach
#listeneveryday 24 Feb 2021 Amy Beach was an American composer who lived from 1867 to 1944, and one of the most respected...
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Simon Rushby
Feb 23, 20212 min read
Symphony No.5 (finale) by Dmitri Shostakovich
#listeneveryday 23 Feb 2021 Shostakovich was heavily criticised by Stalin's regime in the mid-1930s. In 1936 the...
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Simon Rushby
Feb 22, 20212 min read
Take Five by Dave Brubeck, as played by Michel Camilo
#listeneveryday 22 Feb 2021 Take Five appeared on Dave Brubeck's 1959 album Time Out, released in the same year as...
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Simon Rushby
Feb 19, 20212 min read
Ya Tira Tiri Ya Hamama by Rouwaida Attieh
#listeneveryday 19 Feb 2021 We see much about the troubles in Syria, so I wanted to bring some balance by sharing some...
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Simon Rushby
Feb 18, 20212 min read
My Funny Valentine by Rodgers and Hart, played by Miles Davis Quintet
#listeneveryday 18 Feb 2021 I guess I'm four days late with this one, but it is one of my favourite standards and has...
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Simon Rushby
Feb 17, 20212 min read
Aria from Bach's Goldberg Variations, played by Glenn Gould
#listeneveryday 17 Feb 2021 The story goes that Count Hermann Karl von Keyserling, a powerful 18th century diplomat,...
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Simon Rushby
Feb 16, 20212 min read
A Case Of You by Joni Mitchell
#listeneveryday 16 Feb 2021 Just before our love got lost, you said "I am as constant as the Northern Star" And I said...
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Simon Rushby
Feb 15, 20212 min read
The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams
#listeneveryday 15 Feb 2021 He rises and begins to round, He drops the silver chain of sound, Of many links without a...
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Simon Rushby
Feb 12, 20212 min read
Send In The Clowns by Stephen Sondheim, sung by Sarah Vaughan
#listeneveryday 12 Feb 2021 I wanted to include a performance by Sarah Vaughan and fully expected it to be a standard...
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Simon Rushby
Feb 11, 20212 min read
Jealous by Labrinth
#listeneveryday 11 Feb 2021 Labrinth is Timothy McKenzie, a Hackney-born producer, songwriter, singer and rapper who...
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Simon Rushby
Feb 10, 20212 min read
Three Romances for Violin and Piano by Clara Schumann
#listeneveryday 10 Feb 2021 Clara Wieck was a German pianist and composer, born in 1819 in Leipzig. She lived with her...
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Simon Rushby
Feb 9, 20212 min read
Miserere mei, Deus by Gregorio Allegri
#listeneveryday 9 Feb 2021 In the 1630s, a member of the Sistine Chapel choir, Gregorio Allegri, composed a setting of...
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Simon Rushby
Feb 8, 20211 min read
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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