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Esben and the Witch

Called after a Danish story book and crafting fittingly eerie and bewitching music, Berlin via Brighton, Britain’s Esben & the Witch features guitarist/keyboardist Thomas Fisher, electronics/guitarist Daniel Copeman, and vocalist/percussionist Rachael Davies. The trio shaped in 2008 when Fisher confident Copeman to help make the music he was focusing on …

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John Ireland

John Ireland was a conservative Uk composer whose music developed from a method that looked forward and backward toward Beethoven, Brahms, and other Classical and Intimate influences towards a post-Romantic way, abundant with lyricism, but having absorbed Impressionist and Neo-Classical components. He is most widely known for his chamber music, …

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Albert Sammons

Although scarcely a celebrity beyond your UK, Albert Sammons was regarded by many fellow musicians and critics as the best possible violinist ever to have already been produced by Britain. A bold, however sensuous firmness, phrasing that was both virile and freely rhapsodic, and eager musicality all fulfilled in a …

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Zoe Rahman

b. 20 January 1971, Chichester, Sussex, Britain. Playing traditional piano from age four, Rahman analyzed like a Junior Exhibitioner in the Royal Academy of Music from 1982-89 just before attending Oxford University or college, learning music at St. Hugh’s University and graduating in 1992. During her college student years, she …

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