My Sunday choice is from an album that I have already shared a track a while back. Sometimes I like rearrangements – others don’t work so well.
George McConnell
More Summer
Continuing the meteorological theme here is a composer who hasn’t previously featured in my posts – Frederick Delius. There are many of his works that I enjoy but my first real knowledge of the man and his music was when I saw Ken Russell’s documentary “Song of Summer” so the piece by that name fits the bill well.
Storms Have Passed
Some piano music tonight from Debussy – nice and gentle for a Friday evening.
Storm At Sea
With more storms on the way – supposedly – here is another piece of stormy music. I really enjoy the sea interludes and they work really well with the big forces deployed in this video.
Stormy Music
One of the set works when I sat the Scottish Higher Music exam was Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony – so continuing the weather theme here is the “storm” movement – we were originally promised (threatened) with a storm tonight, but it looks like it isn’t actually coming here!
It’s Not Winter!
…but never mind. Continuing the cold theme here is a recording by one of my favourite brass ensembles – Empire Brass – A sleigh ride, now that might cool me down ❄️❄️❄️
Cooling Music
In probably a vain attempt to cool down a bit tonight I am turning to Vaughan Williams – and his portrayal of icebergs, freezing cold and snow – Sinfonia Antartica. Listened to this a lot when I was younger – haven’t done nearly so often recently, but it is still a wonderful sound picture.
Sunday Humour
This is a bit different to my ‘usual’ Sunday choices – but it seemed so appropriate 😁 – and humour is such an important facet of our lives every day.
Salvation Army Music Camp
I have over recent weeks shared stuff about the Glasgow Schools camps and the Wessex Youth Orchestra tour – today it is the turn of the Scottish Salvation Army music camps. Many of my facebook friends appear in this little video 😉
Different Fauré
For this Friday’s slow moment we turn to Fauré – but not the Requiem – this is one of those pieces that you know – but can’t quite place who wrote it and what the title is! Its perfect for relaxation.