![]() ![]() “Everything being new all the time had extra levels to it. Mike Skinner moved to Highgate in London with his family – wife Claire, and children Amelia, 10, and George, eight – just as lockdown was happening. But that’s just stupid, isn’t it? You’ve got to look elsewhere for inspiration.” But it’s very dear to me, and life-affirming in a way.” Listening to these songs make him think about how to be a musician in a different way, he says, especially as in the past he’s had periods of only listening to music that was, as he puts it: “totally in your face. I could never make that kind of music myself, though. In lockdown, Williamson has been responding to melancholy moods by returning to songs he enjoyed as a younger musician. They watch a film and do something creative after it, like write a story about it, or draw a picture.” Williamson’s been fitting this around interviews for Sleaford Mods’ new compilation, All Th at Glue, out this month, and relaxing by listening to music very unlike his own. ![]() ![]() “It’s full on until their bedtime at 8pm, although we’ve given up on home schooling a bit. “It’s weird this, isn’t it? It’s just about getting through it.” Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods is isolating in Nottingham with his wife and two kids, aged eight and five. … for when you just need to lose yourself to the sadness Jason Williamson from Sleaford Mods’s melancholy playlist Josephs’ chamber music is lovely and the clarinet sings plaintively here.Ĭome Away, Come Away Death (performed by John Carol Case and the New Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Vernon Handley)Ī setting of a lovelorn text by Shakespeare, taking inspiration from folk music. Notturno (performed by Linda Merrick and the Kreutzer Quartet)Īn underrated composer from Newcastle, Josephs wrote many scores for film and TV and struggled to get taken seriously as a creative composer. Lento (performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mark Wigglesworth)Ī lyrical minimalist classic for orchestra.Ī moving modern folk song inspired by the tragic tale about a young girl who dies before her marriage.Ĭlarinet Quintet: III. Kancheli wrote music for many Soviet-era Georgian films with a lightness of touch. When Almonds Blossomed (performed by Khatia Buniatishvili) ![]() I love how Paul McCartney said “I’d always loved nature”, when he was asked about the composition of this song. She devoted much of her life to promoting the work of her father, Gustav, but Imogen was a talented composer in her own right, with a very English voice. String Quartet “Phantasy” (performed by David Worswick, Oliver Coates, Simon Hewitt Jones and Tom Hankey) In a Landscape (performed by Stephen Drury)Ī homage to Erik Satie written to accompany dance: a delicate piano piece. Summer Shimmers across the Glass of Green Ponds (performed by the Lark Quartet) This – a country dance originally written for piano and later arranged for string orchestra – is bracingly fresh. “Fallen leaves…” The key track on his first album, with an outstanding and economical string arrangement by Hammer Films composer Harry Robertson.įra Holbergs Tid (performed by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner) His first band in the mid-1970s, Dust, were inspired by the Incredible String Band. Much of this playlist is also inspired by folk music, which he’s always loved. For him, these songs help conjure up a Romantic feeling about nature, in the 19th-century sense: “Music has always had the power to summon up a landscape in your imagination and also to soundtrack your daily reality,” he writes. Pet Shop Boys have had to postpone the UK leg of their Dreamworld: Greatest Hits tour, so this spring has mainly involved them wandering into their past, releasing reissues of 1988 art film It Couldn’t Happen Here and Chris Heath’s brilliant 1990 book about them, Literally.Īlways a classical music fan, Tennant has gravitated towards the genre while on lockdown. “I’m walking on remote roads most days, doing a lot of reading, enjoying watching spring happen,” he emails from his rural post. … for when you look to nature for succourįor someone who’s usually on stage in flamboyant costumes under bright lights, it’s oddly charming to find Neil Tennant in lockdown in the Kent countryside. ![]()
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