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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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Feb 5, 20211 min read
Sonata for Viola (1st movement) by Rebecca Clarke
#listeneveryday 5 Feb 2021 Today's blog brings together two things that are not heard enough: music for solo viola,...
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Simon Rushby
Feb 4, 20212 min read
Ballade for Orchestra by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
#listeneveryday 4 Feb 2021 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (named after, but not to be confused with, the poet Samuel Taylor...
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Feb 3, 20212 min read
One Song Glory from Rent by Jonathan Larson
#listeneveryday 3 Feb 2021 Jonathan Larson's musical Rent premiered in New York in 1996 and ran on Broadway for 12...
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Feb 2, 20212 min read
Liquid Light from Everybody's Gone to the Rapture by Jessica Curry
#listeneveryday 2 Feb 2021 Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is an adventure game for PS4 and PC, first released in...
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Simon Rushby
Feb 1, 20212 min read
Night by Florence Price
#listeneveryday 1 Feb 2021 We return this week, with a slightly new hashtag, and a beautiful song by American composer...
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Nov 30, 20201 min read
Liamuiga (Cook Up) by Courtney Pine
#listeneveryday 30 Nov 2020 Courtney Pine is a multi-instrumentalist best known as one of British jazz's key exponents...
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Nov 27, 20202 min read
La Soirée dans Grenade by Claude Debussy
#listeneveryday 27 Nov 2020 This week we've been to the US, Mexico, Germany and Mali, and we end our little trip in...
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Simon Rushby
Nov 26, 20201 min read
Debe by Toumani Diabaté and Ali Farka Touré
#listeneveryday 26 Nov 2020 The kora is a kind of hybrid - part harp, part lute - that is associated chiefly with the...
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Simon Rushby
Nov 25, 20201 min read
Prelude from Cello Suite No.1 in G major - J.S. Bach
#listeneveryday 25 Nov 2020 We're well into week 4 of #listeneveryday and we haven't had any Bach yet - time to put...
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Simon Rushby
Nov 24, 20201 min read
Diablo Rojo by Rodrigo y Gabriela
#listeneveryday 24 Nov 2020 Thanks to Dave Cunningham for suggesting this fantastic Mexican acoustic guitar duo for a...
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Nov 23, 20201 min read
September Song by Kurt Weill (sung by Frank Sinatra)
#listeneveryday 23 Nov 2020 September Song first appeared in the 1938 Broadway musical Knickerbocker Holiday, which...
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Nov 20, 20201 min read
Prelude in D major by Sergei Rachmaninoff
#listeneveryday 20 Nov 2020 The Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) is best known for his Piano Concerto...
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Simon Rushby
Nov 19, 20201 min read
Gabriel's Oboe by Ennio Morricone
#listeneveryday 19 Nov 2020 Ennio Morricone, who died in July this year, was one of the greatest film composers,...
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Simon Rushby
Nov 18, 20202 min read
Fragile by Sting (featuring Stevie Wonder)
#listeneveryday 18 Nov 2020 In April 1987 American engineer Ben Linder was working on a small hydroelectric dam in a...
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Simon Rushby
Nov 17, 20201 min read
Kajar Bin Kare by Karsh Kale feat. Salim Merchant
#listeneveryday 17 Nov 2020 Karsh Kale is a producer and songwriter who has spent his career developing fusions of...
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Simon Rushby
Nov 16, 20201 min read
Symphony No. 5 (3rd movement) by Jean Sibelius
#listeneveryday 16 Nov 2020 For a lot of music students and particularly composers, if you mention 'Sibelius' the mind...
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Nov 13, 20202 min read
London Town by Bellowhead
#listeneveryday 13 Nov 2020 Folk musicians Jon Boden and John Spiers were sitting in a traffic jam in 2004 when they...
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Nov 12, 20202 min read
Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen
#listeneveryday 12 Nov 2020 The opening track on Springsteen's iconic 1975 album Born To Run and perhaps one of the...
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