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Frederick Delius – La Calinda

Frederick Delius – La Calinda

by | Last updated Mar 3, 2020 | Published on Mar 2, 2020 | The music room

Koanga is Frederick Delius’ third opera, written between 1896 and 1897, on a libretto by Charles Francis Keary, inspired partly by the 1880 book The Grandissimes: A Story of Creole Life by George Washington Cable. Inspiration also came from Delius’s own...
Alexander Borodin – Requiem

Alexander Borodin – Requiem

by | Last updated Mar 3, 2020 | Published on Nov 15, 2019 | The music room

This piece, quite curiously, began in 1879 as a musical joke based on the a children’s tune called “Tati-tati” (aka “Chopsticks”). On this little theme Borodin creates a 5 minutes piece on the text of the Requiem aeternam. The great...
Vítězslav Novák – In the Tatra Mountains

Vítězslav Novák – In the Tatra Mountains

by | Last updated Mar 3, 2020 | Published on Oct 7, 2019 | The music room

Vítězslav Novák (1870-1949) was a Czech post-romantic composer. Born in a small Bohemian town, he moved to Prague in his teens to study at the conservatory, where he had the good fortune of having Antonín Dvořák as a teacher for some time.  In the late 1890s, Novák...