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Tomislav Zografski

Tomislav Zografski-Quartet 1968 Kreutzer Quartet (PSS, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan Goff, Neil Heyde) Website for Zografski

Joan Cot Ros

Joan Cot Ros -is an exciting new voice from Catalonia Here is his beautiful single movement for String Quartet Kreutzer Quartet (PSS, Mihailo Trandafilovski, Morgan…

Pierre Rode

 Pierre Rode inspired Beethoven to write his most lyrical G Major Sonata Op 96, which Rode premiered in Vienna at Christmas 1812. The first truly…

Jean Jacques Rousseau and music

If this is your first time visiting this website, do look around – use the ‘Search’ facility (there are over 2000 posts on many subjects!)…

Hanging Only Connect

April 12th Work continues. 14th April 2011 Light on the connections Friday Morning 8-4-11 Joachim and HG Wells wait Michelle Greaves with Eliza Vestris

Ilhan Usmambas-‘qui sont seuls’ 1966

 Published recently in Turkey, Evin Ilyasoglu’s monograph of Ilhan Usmanbas This book includes and disc with the recording below.  Ihan Usmanbas (born 1921) is Turkey’s…

Macedonia 2011

  Two Days in Skopje (posted Monday March 28th) I am just about to leave Macedonia after two inspiring days at the Days of Macedonian Music…

Angelica Catalani

Angelica Catalani LISTEN: Paganini writes down one of Catalani’s ‘roulades’ in concert 18th June 1823: Catalani/transcribed Paganini-‘Allegro Moderato’ Click on Higlighted words to follow Links…

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Isambard Kingdom Brunel – Click on Highlighted words to follow Links            Brunel married Mary Horsley, who had entranced Mendelssohn a few years earlier. The composer…

David Garrick

David Garrick –  David Garrick swept regularly in and out of the Burney household, the concert halls and salons where Abel, Cervetto and Mozart performed.…

Niccolò Paganini

Niccolò Paganini   Click on SEGRETO Click on CAPRICES Live On the 13th May 1831, the young singer and pianist, John Orlando Parry wrote in…

Felix Mendelssohn

Mendelssohn Alma Schindler (later Mahler-Werfel) ‘connects’ with Mendelssohn Tuesday 24th January 1899  Pm. Composed a song by Heine … and believed it’s not bad. Unfortunately,…

Maria Cosway

Maria Cosway The Cornish poet, John Woolcot, better known by his pen-name of ‘Peter Pindar’ was deeply impressed by the music of the polymath artist…

Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Click on Highlighted words to follow Links Like so many artists of his day, the young Mozart made his way to…

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson –   Thomas Jefferson was a lifelong musical enthusiast. He was a keen violinist, and notated his copy of  Francesco Geminiani’s The Art of…

Joseph Haydn

Josef Haydn Haydn’s Quartet Op 64 No 5 (6) is the most popular of all of his chamber works, and filled with the vigour and…

William Hamilton

William Hamilton (NPG D35272‘A cognoscenti contemplating ye beauties of ye antique’ by James Gillray, published by Hannah Humphrey hand-coloured etching, published 11 February 1801            Charles…

Charles Burney

Charles Burney LISTEN  Charles Burney was a great traveller in music. His research trips across Europe investigating ‘the current state’ of music not only provide insight…

Horatio Nelson

Horatio Nelson –  Sometimes the links between our sitters are utterly banal. But it is in the most everyday action or circumstance, that the essence…

Edwin Landseer

Edwin Landseer LISTEN: Landseer’s sketches of performers face, in more ways than one, in two directions. Some were executed from life, from the wings of…

Leigh Hunt

Leigh Hunt Paganini-6th Caprice, preceded by Leigh Hunt’s ‘Paganini’ live at the NPG LISTEN: Leigh Hunt was the great nephew of the great painter of…

Luigi Marchesi & ‘Cervetto’

Cervetto/ Marchesi –   Luigi Marchesi’s career stretched across the revolutionary generation. He was lionised by the Burneys, by Stendahl, by Napoleon, and gave singing lessons…