Tag: Giovanni Battista Martini
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Very Best of Marian Anderson
“A voice like yours only comes once in 100 years” (Toscanini) “not a voice, but a cello!”(Sir Anthony Pappano) ‘a rich, vibrant contralto of intrinsic beauty’ (A.Blyth). In 1939 the Daughters of the American Revolution refused Anderson (who had returned in triumph from Europe) permission to sing to an integrated audience. The incident threw her…
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Regal Fanfares
Regal Fanfares is a programme of some of the most exciting and dramatic music from the Baroque period. Often flamboyant, sometimes ornate, this music has a grandeur and stateliness that is guaranteed to stir the emotions. Both the trumpet and organ have been associated with Royal occasions over the centuries and the combination of the…
