{"id":1843,"date":"2018-07-03T09:20:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T09:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/?p=1843"},"modified":"2019-03-28T21:29:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T21:29:44","slug":"the-silver-swan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgecaird.co.uk\/index.php\/the-silver-swan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silver Swan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recorded in March and broadcast on 3 May, my contribution to BBC Radio 3’s My Life in Music <\/em>was The Silver Swan. <\/em>Producer Rosie Boulton approached me to write about music that had had a profound influence on me in determining my life in music. It was quite hard to pinpoint a single work or works from the thousands that could be mentioned: the first time I played in the National Youth Orchestra was Tchaikovsky 5 for instance, but what about Mahler symphonies, all those operas I played (Mozart, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Strauss), Gurrelieder <\/em>and so on? And chamber music (Mozart K452 or K361, Beethoven quartets, Bartok) and those records that I wore out as a child (Richter playing the Wanderer Fantasie, Dennis Brain’s Mozart Horn Concerti, Ansermet and The Rite of Spring)?\u00a0<\/em> Stop me<\/em>, like you the list is endless!<\/p>\n

<\/em>I sent Rosie some initial ideas from all these (including a piece on Vivaldi’s Four Seasons <\/em>which is another story….), and what came back was her feeling that my Silver Swan told a special story. So I hope you enjoy it – a memory of singing in a punt in Oxford in c. 1964. I shared the series with Chris Wood, Kerry Andrew, Karine Polwart and Sally Beamish, by the way – their contributions are great!<\/p>\n

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Recorded in March and broadcast on 3 May, my contribution to BBC Radio 3’s My Life in Music was The Silver Swan. Producer Rosie Boulton approached me to write about music that had had a profound influence on me in determining my life in music. It was quite hard to pinpoint a single work or<\/p>\n

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