• Short Posts - Treasures

    Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears and Decca

    2013-02-20 - By 

    Originally published February 20, 2013. Updated, revised and republished May 29, 2025. I’m ashamed to admit it, but Benjamin Britten is a composer I managed to live most of my life without knowing really anything about. Chalk it up first to the anti-British bias there is in classical music overall.…

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    Meet Michael Nyman

    2012-09-15 - By 

    Originally published September 15, 2012. Updated, revised and republished May 29, 2025. Today’s treasure is one that I found over twenty years ago: the modern British composer Michael Nyman. I first discovered Michael Nyman when I went to see the film “Prospero’s Books”. I admit, I didn’t know who Greenaway…

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    Wish You Were Here

    2011-04-30 - By 

    Originally published April 30, 2011. Updated, revised and republished May 29, 2025. In a previous post, I mentioned that I simply love Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here” And I love Rasputina So it’s a treat to find a Rasputina cover of “Wish You Were Here”.

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    Menacing Covers

    2010-12-14 - By 

    Originally published December 14, 2010. Updated, revised and republished May 29, 2025. When I was a kid, I was very closed-minded about a lot of things. One way this closed-mindedness would manifest around music is that I didn’t like the idea of covers. In my mind, there was always only…

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    Music of the Distant Past

    2009-06-12 - By 

    Originally published June 12, 2009. Updated, revised and republished May 29, 2025. One thing that I had in mind in starting this blog was for it to be a place where I could note those particularly rare and unexpected musical finds. The world of music is really so much more…