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Black Sky Thinking
Junk Shop Classical On Clara Schumann: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
Clara Schumann had one of the most extraordinary lives in 19th century music, says Phil Hebblethwaite. Against the odds, she made it as a pianist, and she ought to have been recognised as a great composer too
Black Sky Thinking
Junk Shop Classical On Brahms: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
Phil Hebblethwaite invites you into Brahms’s German Requiem, one of the worst-named pieces of classical music in the canon. It has nothing to do with nationalism, or the church, and should have been called what Brahms later suggested: A Human Requiem. It couldn’t be more relevant in 2017
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Fragments Of Fragments: An Interview With Laura Cannell
Last year, Laura Cannell released her debut album Quick Sparrows Over The Black Earth, which found the fiddle and recorder player drawing on medieval music for her improvisational compositions. She tells Danny Riley about recording in churches and finding kindred spirits in fellow Early Music fans Bass Clef and Charles Hayward in their Oscilanz project
