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27th December 2014

Obituary, 2014 Goodbyes

by James Longstaffe

2014 GoodbyesA tribute to some of the musicians who died in 2014, who enhanced our lives and gave us so much joy with their talent and artistry.

The music is an extract from Bruckner's Symphony No. 9, performed by the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and conducted by Claudio Abbado.

The full list of people included in the video is as follows:

Carlo Bergonzi Magda Olivero Acker Bilk Peter Sculthorpe Gerd Albrecht Cristina Deutekom Knut Nystedt David Trendell Lorin Maazel Anita Cerquetti Frans Brüggen Rod Franks Christopher Hogwood Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos Licia Albanese John Shirley-Quirk Lydia Mordkovitch George Christie Claudio Abbado.

James Longstaffe - Head of Retail

James is a conductor, répétiteur, arranger, and tuba player. His musical interests include opera, film music, late-Romantic orchestral works (especially Mahler and Richard Strauss), and twentieth-century American composers such as Copland, John Adams, and John Williams. He read Music at Christ Church, Oxford, writing his postgraduate dissertation on the music of Star Wars.

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