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Classical music has been a very important part of my life. At the Pre-Prep ‘Stepping Stones School’ I attended from the age of four to eight, the morning always started with Bach’s ‘Sheep May Safely Graze’. But I inherited my love of music primarily from my grandfather, who studied music at Cambridge in the early 1900s, and was an accomplished pianist, though never a professional one. Click on the following link to hear a recording I had made of Charles Wood’s setting of Walt Whitman’s ‘Ethiopia Saluting the Colours’. This is a song about slavery in the US.
Other music that my Grandfather often played can be heard in preview by clicking on the links below. Some of the links are to whole albums of music of the kind my Grandfather enjoyed. All of this music is deeply ingrained in my mind.
God Be With You Till We Meet Again (Randolph), with music by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/god-be-you-till-we-meet-again/id421623952?i=421624266
The Best Of Gilbert & Sullivan:
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/the-best-of-gilbert-sullivan/id483367059
Schubert Impromptus: 4 Impromptus Op. 142, D. 935: No. 2 in A Flat: Allegretto
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/schubert-impromptus/id13440488
6 Piano Pieces, Op. 118: No. 2. Intermezzo in A
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/brahms-handel-variations-paganini/id96077808
Intermezzi, Op. 117: No. 2. in B flat minor
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/intermezzi-op.-117-no.-2./id202770065?i=202770442
Six Pieces, Op. 118: III. Ballade in G minor
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/six-pieces-op.-118-iii.-ballade/id202770065?i=202770543
Fantasien, Op. 116: I. Capricccio
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/fantasien-op.-116-i.-capricccio/id319941227?i=319941665
Fantasien, Op. 116: VII. Capriccio
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/fantasien-op.-116-vii.-capriccio/id319941227?i=319941675
Schubert: Impromptu Op.90 No.3 in G flat major, D 899/3
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/schubert-impromptu-op.90-no.3/id398671775?i=398673830
Nun Danket Alle Gott, BWV 192: Nun Danket Alle Gott
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/nun-danket-alle-gott-bwv-192/id353330345?i=353330379
4 Ballades for piano, Op. 10: No. 3 “Intermezzo” in B Minor – Allegro
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/4-ballades-for-piano-op.-10/id205999116?i=205999928
4 Ballades for piano, Op. 10: No. 4 in B Major – Andante con Moto
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/4-ballades-for-piano-op.-10/id205999116?i=206000376
Sonata for Violin and Piano in A: 1. Allegretto ben moderato
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/sonata-for-violin-piano-in/id27503302?i=27503374
Eight Piano Pieces, Op. 76: Capriccio In B Minor, No. 2
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/eight-piano-pieces-op.-76/id289021826?i=289022151
Eight Piano Pieces, Op. 76: Capriccio In C Major, No. 8
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/eight-piano-pieces-op.-76/id289021826?i=289022211
Intermezzo, Op 118, No 1
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/intermezzo-op-118-no-1/id277372757?i=277372887
Intermezzi, Op. 117: 1. in E Flat Major, and others:
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/brahms-two-rhapsodies-piano/id14717403
and
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/radu-lupu-plays-brahms/id83331767
Four Ballades, Op. 10, No. 1 in D Minor: Andante
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/four-ballades-op.-10-no.-1/id203560958?i=203562433
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto #2 In C Minor, Op. 18 – Moderato
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/piano-concerto-no.-2-in-c/id363144244?i=363144299
Rachmaninov: Prelude In C Sharp Minor, Op. 3/2, “The Bells Of Moscow”
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/prelude-in-c-sharp-minor-op./id286313601?i=286313670
