Gleanings about music & art from Simon Hopkins, guitarist. Co-founder of @angelacademe; Chair of @NewMusicBrightn; MMus from @UniOfSurrey.
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Here's a montage of extracts from "Attuned to the Rainbow Faults", my sixth Boom Logistics release. The album was recorded between 2017 and 2021 and features a host of brilliant players to whom I'm indebted. youtube.com/watch?v=cIg6oJ5Q…
Another one of my Bach chorale #classicalguitar quartet transcriptions: "Der du bist drei in Einigkeit". Harmonic analysis included - #musictheory nerds feel free to correct me! youtube.com/watch?v=NEHfqOls…
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Premiere: The Necks
In October, Australian jazz trio The Necks will release their 20th full length album, Disquiet.
Ahead of its release, The Wire presents an exclusive stream of the group’s latest single, “Warm Running Sunlight”.
thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks/p…
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'Trapped in the Sky', the first episode of Thunderbirds, was originally broadcast in selected ITV regions on this day in 1965.
Here's another folk song I've arranged for intermediate #classicalguitar quartet - a somewhat lugubrious take on "Matty Groves": youtu.be/vg-CqoIBKFM
Thoughts on the inevitable (if enforced) moving my blog from Typepad to Substack: simonhopkins572464.substack.…
Another little Bach chorale arranged for #clasicalguitar quartet, "Das walt' Gott Vater und Gott Sohn". With harmonic analysis, of course! youtube.com/watch?v=Be0PMOi0…
An especially brilliant episode of the Freak Zone from @StuartMaconie and @BBC6Music, exploring the relationship between C20th classical music and pop/rock, feat a great interview with @elizabethalker: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002hb… (Already ordered Elizabeth's book!)
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Online tickets are now available for our next concert on Saturday 6 September!
wegottickets.com/event/67291…
Another little Bach chorale arranged for #classicalguitar quartet: "Da der Herr Christ zu Tische sass", transposed from C minor to D minor. With harmonic analysis. youtube.com/watch?v=pYDPUykG…
Great @DrMatthewSweet interview with Walter Murch on @BBCRadio3's Sound of Cinema: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002gg…
I was lucky enough to see @TheCBSO perform Berio's "Sinfonia" at the @bbcproms on Friday evening. Sensational. If you weren't there (or, indeed, if you were), listen to it here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002g2…
