Concert: To start at a specific movement just click on its title. Samuel Barber: Four Songs, Op. 13: III.Sure on this Shining NightText by James Agee Sure on this Shining Night Sure on this shining nightOf star made shadows round,Kindness must watch for meThis side the ground.The late year lies down the north.All is healed, […]
Category Archives: Orchestral
Visit Bill Bytheway’s Flickr site Bass open strings: The continuo: Bass (=Violone) andHarpsichord (= Cembalo) Bach: Brandenburg No. 6 BWV 1051, original score … and, if you wondered about Beethoven’s double bassoon… Concert: To start at a specific movement just click on its title. A full-blooded, late Romantic concerto from a musician we associate more […]
The Bytheway Baritone Listen! (Don’t forget that you can consume this in situ or, by clicking on the three vertical dots on the end, use my take-away service) The written range: Concert: To start at a specific movement just click on its title. We heard the story of a Pleyel’s commissioning Debussy for their new […]
Do you remember? (As well as adjusting the volume at your end, you can also now download this file by clicking on the 3 perpendicular dots on the end!) Harp: range & pedals Pedal positions: Pedal notation: What not to do:- Chromatic scale: A pedalling nightmare! Homer nods: – Even the good and great can […]
It’s not all harp and cor anglais in heaven, you know… Give ear… (As well as adjusting my volume which I’m sure you’re now familiar with, you can also now download this file by clicking on the 3 perpendicular dots on the end!) Trombone positions: The harmonic series up to the 16th partial showing the […]
’ Listen (too loud? too quiet?? Please adjust the volume at home)… Cello open strings: Elgar’s concerto: Kodály’s scordatura: Left hand pizzicato: Concert: Locked down Bach: Mischa Maisky plays the C major suite during lockdown. Timings: 00:16 Prelude 04:27 Allemande 08:37 Courante 12:14 Sarabande 16:45 Bourree I/II 20:49 Gigue Rostropovich, Giulini and the […]
’ Listen (and don’t forget to adjust the volume at your end if needs be)… The autograph of Mozart’s Requiem (the magnifying glass is by me!) The Crumhorn The Shawm The Rackett aka Sausage Bassoon Concert: The Mozart Clarinet Concerto played on period instruments, including – naturally – the basset clarinet: Cecilia Bartoli and […]
Welcome again to a slightly different set up. For the next nine weeks the main content of this blog will be, not (as previously) mostly in written text, but in the spoken word and contained in the sound file below. In addition, at the bottom of the post, there will be a ‘concert’ of works […]
Welcome to a slightly different set up. For the next ten weeks the main content of this blog will be, not (as previously) mostly in written text, but in the spoken word and contained in a sound file (first example below!) In addition, at the bottom of the post, there will be a ‘concert’ of […]
Josef Stalin died in March 1953; Shostakovich′s 10th Symphony was first performed in December of that year. The composer had been labouring under official (i.e. Stalin’s) censure for his ‘insanely sombre and neurotic’ music since 1948 … The audio file below deals with the final three movements of the work (remember to adjust the volume, […]
