Classical music fiction
 

Ensemble. Collective Talent - Mike Wheeler marvels at The National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain

Midnight Ice Cream - Maria Nockin tells the story of a bus driver who lands a job working for an opera company

A Chorus of Dissent - Ros Bethan illustrates her own musical poem

The Life of Antonio Vivaldi - Susan Budig's short poem about Venice's 'Red Priest', composed in the form of a classical rondeau

A Vision of Shostakovich's String Quartet No 8 - A poem by J Jean Mayfield

Lust in A Major - Marsha Cappy's tale takes place in Prague in 1905 ...

Nota Bene - K C Devereaux tells the story of the second best piano student in the class

Movements - Not quite a review - but ... with Kelly Ferjutz

Beethoven's Ninth Solstice - A poem by Debra A Hoffmann

The Piano - A short story by Kelly Ferjutz

To everything there is a season - A short story by Jenna Orkin of wtceo.org

Ensemble. Mystic chanting - Elica Lupus-Popescu journeys to hear the lost pipers of Iasi

Music - a short story by Elizabeth Dobbs

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 33. A Royal Composer

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 32. Stravinsky's Final Period Works

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 31. Bartok's Original 4th String Quartet

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 30. Strauss's Tone Poem 'Der Hund von die Baskervilles'

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 29. Elgar: The Missing 'Enigma Variations'

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 28. Fibich's 'Moods, Impressions and Reminiscences'

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 27. Schumann's 'Blumenkinderstücke'

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 26. Chopin's 'Cantate de Noël'

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 25. Purcell's 'Welcome Ode on Pepys's Recovery from the Bladderstone'

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 24. John Taverner's 44-part motet, 'The Cryes of London'

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 23. Gustav Holst's 'Pluto', from The Planets (rev.)

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 22. Esrum Hellerup: An Unknown Composer

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 21. Rubbra's Comedy Overture

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 20. Respighi's trittico The Bistros of Rome

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 19. Charles Ives's Grand Metropolitan Hotel, New York City

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 18. Reger's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Satie

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 17. Fauré's Saxophone Concertino

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 16. Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta, Billy Budd

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 15. Berlioz's Études for Piano

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 13. Beethoven's English Folk-Song Arrangements

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 11. Tippett's Easy Duets for Children

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 10. John Cage's Mushroom Music

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 9. Malcolm Arnold's Requiem for Olivier Messiaen

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 8. Debussy's Prelude and Fugue for organ

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 7. Delius's Evening Canticles

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 6. Bruckner's Cabaret Songs

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 5. Schoenberg's Rhapsody on Greensleeves

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 4. The A.E. Housman settings of Elgar, Smyth and Boulez

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 3. Messiaen's ballet-music The Wind in the Willows

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - 2. Wagner's String Trio

Rejected Reviews or, works that got away - Trevor Hold has dragged from oblivion some music you will not know. 1. Brahms's opera Tom Jones

 

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