Showing posts with label Jelly d'Aranyi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jelly d'Aranyi. 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...
Sunday, March 03, 2019

FS Kelly: a lost genius?

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When I was working on Ghost Variations , one of the most rewarding - and moving - discoveries was the music of Frederick Septimus  Kelly (18...
Saturday, February 17, 2018

And yesterday was...

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Jelly d'Arányi: Schumann heroine ...the 80th anniversary of the UK premiere of the Schumann Violin Concerto, given by our own Jelly ...
Monday, May 30, 2016

Our heroine's birthday

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Today is the birthday of the great violinist Jelly d'Arányi, who was born in Budapest on 30 May 1893. She is of course the heroine of ...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Keep Calm and...listen to Jelly

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I do wonder whence all these amazing recordings on Youtube are popping up. They don't grow on trees and many were never released on LP, ...
Monday, January 18, 2016

Here it is: GHOST VARIATIONS

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You may have wondered why I've been posting clips of late Schumann and asking you to have a special listen. Now I can reveal all... ...
Sunday, March 08, 2015

International Women's Day: Violin Legend #1

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This recording is pretty good quality for 1928. This was the year in which votes in the UK were extended to include all women over 21 (not o...
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...
Friday, May 30, 2014

Happy birthday, Jelly

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The great violinist Jelly d'Arányi, muse to Ravel, Vaughan Williams, Bartók and many other composers (maybe even Elgar), was born on thi...
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...
Friday, March 01, 2013

Friday Historical: More Jelly d'Aranyi - very unusual

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If you enjoyed last week's d'Aranyi/Hess/Cassado treat, you'll be eager to hear our rarity from Jelly and unnamed accompanist......
Friday, February 22, 2013

Friday Historical: purple Brahms patch with d'Aranyi, Hess and Cassado

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This extraordinary recording from 1928 has finally popped up on Youtube. Here's the second movement of Brahms's Piano Trio in C, Op....
Friday, November 16, 2012

HUNGARIAN DANCES goes Romanian

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Yes, it's the latest edition of HUNGARIAN DANCES , and it's in Romanian. Heartfelt thanks to Editura Rao in Bucharest for bringin...