All posts tagged Tchaikovksy

Stanford Robinson’s Nutcracker and Bransby Williams’s Scrooge

With Christmas nearly here, it’s time for my customary festive posting. On the orchestral side of things, Stanford Robinson conducts the Nutcracker Suite, and then there’s a feast of Dickensian recordings from Bransby Williams. Then as a non-festive bonus, a monologue from Wilfrid Brambell, best known as Albert Steptoe in Steptoe and Son. He apparently […]

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by on December 24, 2014  •  Permalink
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Posted by Damians78s on December 24, 2014

https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2014/12/24/stanford-robinsons-nutcracker-and-bransby-williamss-scrooge/

Easthope Martin – Godard and Grieg; Albert Coates – Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Dance of the Tumblers

There are two parts to this latest addition to my site. First, a performer who has appeared already as a composer: Easthope Martin, whose popular “Come to the fair” has been heard here performed both by Julie Andrews, and her stepfather Ted Andrews. However, in the period before the First World War, Martin recorded a […]

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by on April 23, 2012  •  Permalink
Posted in Orchestral, Piano/Keyboard
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Posted by Damians78s on April 23, 2012

https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2012/04/23/easthope-martin-godard-and-grieg-albert-coates-tchaikovskys-romeo-and-juliet-rimsky-korsakovs-dance-of-the-tumblers/