Why Listen to Mahler?

546,818 views Aug 13, 2021

Gustav Mahler has been one of my favourite composers since I discovered Classical Music – and in this video I try to explain why he holds that place, from many angles, channelled through the extraordinary, moving story of Mahler’s life and works.

Memories of Alhambra - Francisco Tárrega

Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea (21 November 1852 – 15 December 1909) was a Spanish composer and classical guitarist of the Romantic period. Tárrega was born on 21 November 1852, in Villarreal, Province of Castellón, Spain. It is said that Francisco's father played flamenco and several other music styles on his guitar; when his father was away working as a watchman at the Convent of San Pascual, the child would take his father's guitar and attempt to make the beautiful sounds he had heard. Francisco's nickname as a child was "Quiquet". As a child, he ran away from his nanny and fell into an irrigation channel and injured his eyes. Fearing that his son might lose his sight completely, his father moved the family to Castellón de la Plana to attend music classes because as a musician he would be able to earn a living, even if blind. Both his first music teachers, Eugeni Ruiz and Manuel González, were blind.

Vangelis - La petite fille de la mer

Never Let Me Go - Rachel Portman - We All Complete

953,752 views May 13, 2011

Never Let Me Go Soundtrack Rachel Portman