Showing posts with label FS Kelly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FS Kelly. Show all posts
Sunday, May 12, 2019

The Ghosts of War

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Tracing the path from FS Kelly's death in the Battle of the Somme, through the rediscovery of the Schumann Violin Concerto on the eve of...
Friday, July 01, 2016

The Somme, 1 July 1916

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Poppies. Photo: John Beniston via Wikipedia Below, the Elegy for Strings, "In Memoriam Rupert Brooke", by Frederick Septimus ...
Sunday, November 08, 2015

Remembrance Sunday: astonishing music from the WWI years

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Looking for music for Remembrance Sunday - and especially music by Frederick Septimus Kelly - I was blown away by this short film from vio...
Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Remembrance: Jelly d'Arányi plays FS Kelly

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The young violinist Jelly d'Arányi - sometime muse to Ravel, Bartók and even the ageing Elgar - was much in love with the gifted Austr...
Thursday, January 02, 2014

A lost generation - and some that need finding

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As the commemorations of the World War I centenary begin, music is very much part of the equation. Radio 3 is starting a new series entitled...
Sunday, November 10, 2013

A Remembrance Sunday rarity

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This is the astonishing Elegy for Strings 'In Memoriam Rupert Brooke' by Frederick Septimus Kelly, the brilliant Australian pianis...
Friday, May 31, 2013

Friday Historical bonanza of Jelly d'Aranyi

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Yesterday was the 120th birthday of one of my great musical heroines, the violinist Jelly d'Aranyi. And on Youtube, it turns out that an...