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The Opening Salvo - Professor Christopher Hogwood
Beethoven: String Quartet in F major, Op. 18 No.1 With the Wilhelm Quartet. How to be revolutionary without scaring away your public? How to announce yourself as a new broom without alienating the more stalwart connoisseurs? Beethoven faced these problems when presenting his first six string quartets for publication as opus 18; did he win his public and allay their fears with his choice of opening? The Wilhelm Quartet will present the evidence. The Wilhelm Quartet comprises Marciana Buta (violin), CharlotCollected in GreshamCollege's videos Mar 27, 2012 -
Is it possible? - Professor Christopher Hogwood CBE
Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F major, k.370. Professor Christopher Hogwood with Mea Wade and players from the Royal Academy of Music. Harnessing virtuosity to good taste and fireworks to fine craftsmanship is a permanent challenge for the composer. Purely technical show will have little lasting effect, and Mozart was especially scrupulous at linking what sounded effective with what was musically needed. We examine with Mea Wade the requirements of good oboe playing and some of that instrument's special qualitieCollected in GreshamCollege's videos Feb 15, 2012 -
The History and Music of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Congregation in the City of London - Maurice Bitton and Chazan Eliot Alderman
Bevis Marks Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in the UK (consecrated 1701), and is the 'cathedral synagogue' of a community which arrived in England in 1656 with the blessing of Oliver Cromwell, thus ending over three-and-a-half centuries of Jewish exile from this country. For the last 350 years this community has existed as an integral part of religious and cultural life in the City of London.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Nov 22, 2011 -
Sullivan's Song-Writing Technique - Professor David Owen Norris
Professor David Owen Norris considers questions of style, word-setting, form and rhetoric, explaining how Sir Arthur Sullivan achieves his expressive ends. http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/sullivan-song-day-1Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Oct 18, 2011 -
Sullivan Song Day: TheLostChord - David Owen Norris
An examination of The Lost Chord and the other songs by the same poet, Adelaide A. Procter. http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/sullivan-song-day-1Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Oct 18, 2011 -
Soothing the Savage Breast - Professor Glenn D Wilson
Can music heal? For centuries its therapeutic virtues have been extolled.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Oct 6, 2011 -
Voices Of The Land - Dr Richard Nunns
In his solo presentation of traditional instruments (taonga puoro), Richard Nunns introduces his audience to the ancient sound world of the Mäori of Aotearoa New Zealand. For each presentation he chooses from among fifty different instruments - mainly percussion or flutes and trumpets. Made from materials such as wood, bone, stone and shell, many of the instruments are carved in exquisite detail. The voices of the traditional instruments had rarely been heard since the early nineteenth century. Nunns's musiCollected in GreshamCollege's videos Jul 25, 2011 -
Percy Grainger: Australia's Greatest Composer? - Professor Malcolm Gillies
We can think of world-leading Australians in sport (Don Bradman), media ownership (Rupert Murdoch) and film (Nicole Kidman). In music, some great performers come to mind, especially female singers (Nellie Melba, Joan Sutherland). But how many people can even name an Australian composer? In his Gresham Lecture, Malcolm Gillies probes this elusive category of greatness. Percy Grainger (1882-1961), the composer of Country Gardens, is often mentioned as a contender. But, despite his birth, was he really AustralCollected in GreshamCollege's videos Jul 12, 2011 -
Birdsong and Music - David Matthews
Many composers have been influenced by birdsong. Mozart treasured the songs of his pet starling, even giving the bird a ceremonial funeral. David Matthews, one of Britain's leading composers, has always been interested in the incorporation of the natural world into his music, recently even including birdsong in some recent compositions. This lecture offers an opportunity for reflection on the relations between music and the natural world and how a composer can be brought closer to one through the other andCollected in GreshamCollege's videos Jul 6, 2011 -
From Trocadero to Troxy: A tradition returns - John Abson and Richard Hills
Eighty years ago, three enterprising sons of Russian immigrants realised their ambition, to build a palace of dreams on the Old Kent Road. Three years later they followed their dream with another magnificent picture palace, the Troxy on Commercial Road, Stepney. On the way they collected Europe's largest Wurlitzer pipe organ and a virtuoso organist, a pupil of Max Reger, to play it. Today, with the Trocadero but a distant memory and its mightiest of Wurlitzers languishing in store, we follow the fascinatiCollected in GreshamCollege's videos Jun 17, 2011 -
Mahler: My Time Will Come - Chamber Domaine
A concert and short talk on Mahler's legacy, vision and philosophy, and his influence on subsequent composers. Concert: Mahler arr. Klaus Simon, Symphony No.4 - Bedächtig, nicht eilen and Ruhevoll; Mark Anthony Turnage, Grazioso! for Piccolo, Bass Clarinet, Piano, Viola and Cello; Henryk Górecki, Valentines Piece for Solo Flute and Bell; Dai Fujikura, Eternal Escape for Solo Cello. http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/mahler-my-time-will-comeCollected in GreshamCollege's videos Jun 6, 2011 -
Mahler's London - Keith James Clarke
Architect Keith James Clarke describes Mahler's one and only visit to this great city during the summer of 1892. This lecture outlines Mahler's impressions of London, where he lived and worked and the impact he had on the music-loving public of the day. http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/mahler%E2%80%99s-londonCollected in GreshamCollege's videos Jun 1, 2011 -
Mahler's Heavenly Retreats - Keith James Clarke
On the 18th May 1911 at 11.05pm Gustav Mahler died in Vienna. To mark this Centenary and celebrate his life, Architect Keith James Clarke, will talk about the three summer retreats where the master composed his music. http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/mahler%E2%80%99s-heavenly-retreatsCollected in GreshamCollege's videos May 20, 2011 -
From Printed Page to Performance - Christopher Hogwood, Emma Kirkby and Jakob Lidberg
When so much in music education is formulated on the principle of imitation, and the passing down of received 'traditions' from teacher to pupil, it is important to readdress the significance of original and informed opinion in performance. Dame Emma Kirkby, who has done more than any other musician of our generation to reassess the vocal approach to earlier music will discuss with the Lecturer her approach to singing, teaching, recording and performing and the effect her performances have had on singing woCollected in GreshamCollege's videos Apr 28, 2011 -
Mahler, The Prodigy and Hollywood - Chamber Domaine
Both Mahler and Strauss proclaimed the thirteen year old Korngold a genius. This lecture will explore how Mahler influenced a generation of émigrés who wrote for films. Concert: Korngold, Cello Concereto, Op.37; Mahler, Urlicht, Korngold, Piano Trio, Op.1. All our lectures are available for free download from the Gresham College website, in video, audio or text formats: http://www.gresham.ac.uk Gresham College professors and guest speakers have been giving free public lectures in central London since 159Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Apr 14, 2011 -
Celebrating the Past: Treasures from the RCM Collection - Dr Ingrid Pearson
Founded in 1882, the Royal College of Music holds research collections of international significance, early printed music, manuscripts and more modern repertoire and literature. Dr Pearson uses some of the rich holdings of the RCM to shed light on works from the immediate and distant past, including music by John Bull, the inaugural Gresham Professor of Music. All our lectures are available for free download from the Gresham College website, in video, audio or text formats: http://www.gresham.ac.uk GreshamCollected in GreshamCollege's videos Apr 13, 2011 -
From Composer to Printed Page - Professor Christopher Hogwood
Musical notation is both inexact and changeable; the assumptions of one period may be lost on following generations, and the greater part of written music still remains unpublished at the present day. The challenges of editing and presenting a text, either of a well-known classic or of an unknown writer differ in music from those faced in the similar worlds of literature or Biblical criticism. The dilemmas created by composers' second thoughts and revisions, and disciples' 'improvements' require a 'correct'Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Mar 28, 2011 -
The Authenticity of Genius - Professor Christopher Hogwood
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Schumann and the young Brahms - Chamber Domaine - Gresham College Lectures
An exploration of the influence of Schumann on Brahms. The programme included Brahms/Schumann Variations for Piano Op 9, the FAE Sonata for which Schumann and Brahms both wrote movements and the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 11, 2010 -
Lawrence Sterne and Joseph Haydn - Chamber Domaine - Gresham College Lectures
An exploration of the connections between Lawrence Sterne, the 18th century novelist and Joseph Haydn. There are a lot of parallels in their work - especially towards subverting expectation through unexpected twists of form, language and style, and this was to have a huge impact on the course of music and literature.Collected in GreshamCollege's videos Sep 11, 2010
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GreshamCollege Beethoven: String Quartet in F major, Op. 18 No.1 With the Wilhelm Quartet. How to be revolutionary without scaring away your public? How to announce yourself as a new broom without alienating the more stalwart connoisseurs? Beethoven faced these problems when presenting his first six string quartets for publication as opus 18; did he win his public and allay their fears with his choice of opening? The Wilhelm Quartet will present the evidence. The Wilhelm Quartet comprises Marciana Buta (violin), Charlot Read More
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