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Just for fun this week, I look at my favourite fugues - what I think are some of the greatest fugues of all time, from the Baroque period, the Classical period, and the Romantic period. I'm not messing around - I just wanted to show off some of my all-time favourite fugues - and some of the best fug...
Some music just has that gorgeous, French sound. Think Debussy'sĀ Clair de Lune,Ā Satie'sĀ Gymnopedies, or Ravel'sĀ Jeux d'eau.
Something about this music makes it sound gorgeously French - but what is it? What is that quality, what exactly is it about the music that makes itĀ soundĀ French?
In this vid...
Elgar's Enigma Variations contains a famous musical puzzle, or code, which has baffled academics for most of a century. Many solutions have been suggested, but alas, Elgar took the true solution to the grave.
Here, I explain what the Enigma is, and I have a crack at solving it too! Of course, we'll...
Over the last couple years, I spent a long while trying to figure out a series which could show you how to listen to classical music. How to understand the music, how to appreciate it, how to follow it. There's a lot to go into, but I wanted to make it as accessible as possible. And so, this series ...