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Jul 16, 2021 · Building on these themes, Balfe’s score is heavily influenced by Russian classical and folk music. The composer immersed himself in Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Borodin, and the Red Army Choir – the military ensemble known as the Kremlin’s ‘singing weapon’ that defined the Cold War sound of the USSR.
Feb 7, 2024 · Its infectious disco-influenced soundtrack was created by Inverness-born and Grammy-award-winning composer and record producer, Lorne Balfe, 47, who has a prolific career spanning more than a...
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Dec 15, 2020 · NME talks to Grammy Award-winning composer Lorne Balfe about his work scoring Phillip Pullman's fantasy epic 'His Dark Materials'.
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Michael William Balfe was born in Dublin on May 15, 1808. The family moved to Wexford for a while but, when Balfe was aged ten, they returned to Dublin. It is likely that he was taught to play the piano and violin by his father who was a musician and dancing master. Balfe's talent had been spotted when aged nine when he performed on the piano and v...
Commercial Opera Recordings The Bohemian Girl, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Richard Bonynge, re issued on Decca 473 077-2 in 2002 (Music only, no dialogue). Private Opera Recordings The Siege of Rochelle. John Lewis Partnership Music Society, Derek Carden, 1987. The Daughter of St. Mark, Gala Opera Group Orchestra, Ken Jones, Rare Record...
The most recent book on Balfe's life is Basil Walsh's, Michael W. Balfe, with a forward by Richard Bonynge, published in Dublin by the Irish Academic Press, 2008. Michael William Balfe, his life and his English operas by William Tyldesley, (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2003) concentrates particularly on the details and analysis of his English ope...
Many of Balfe's full scores were presented to the British Library by his widow, Lina, and can be found listed here. Sources of all the librettos can be found here. Each opera web page also has the references.
The main website on Balfe is Basil Walsh's British and Irish World, which includes lists of all his operas and his songs. There is also a section in his Irish Classical Music Pioneers. The online Museum of Music Historyhas a page on him. There is a web page on Balfe's Spanish descendants at https://www.docsandroots.com/2020/12/michael-william-balfe...
Aug 4, 2017 · Hailing from Scotland, Lorne spent his formative years writing jingles. Today, he is responsible for the musical magic of The Lego Batman Movie, Churchill, The Story of God with Morgan Freeman, and many more.
A Dream Of Marble Halls 1970. Arts and Culture. The rags to riches story of the life and music of Michael William Balfe. Michael William Balfe (1808-1870) was born on Pitt Street in Dublin city...
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Best known to posterity as a composer of English Operas, his works were enormously popular with the Victorian general public who frequented the theatres and bought the sheet music for his songs and ballads.
