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Black Sky Thinking
Junk Shop Classical On Lili Boulanger: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
The chance finding of a 1960 album on a long-gone American indie label led Phil Hebblethwaite into the enormous sound world of the supremely talented French composer Lili Boulanger, who set Psalms to music and might have written a requiem for her own death in 1918 at the tragically young age of 24
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Junk Shop Classical on Albinoni’s Adagio: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
A classic of film scores, Albinoni’s Adagio isn’t a lost baroque masterpiece; it’s a spoof composed by his biographer in the 1950s. Harmless fun, asks Phil Hebblethwaite, or a savage exposé of classical music’s obsession with authenticity and dead men?
