Year of Wonder Quotes

“Bach was the daddy: without him there’d be no jazz, funk or hip-hop; no techno, no house, no grime. He basically wrote the blueprint for everything that was to come. His stuff is wise and witty and capacious enough to contain more than just multitudes: it contains all of everything.”
― Clemency Burton-Hill, YEAR OF WONDER: Classical Music for Every Day

“head, forget all of your thoughts; all my senses now will sink into slumber.”
― Clemency Burton-Hill, YEAR OF WONDER: Classical Music for Every Day

“I don’t know about your life, but serenity and peace are in critically short supply in mine, so I’ll take it where I can get it.”
― Clemency Burton-Hill, YEAR OF WONDER: Classical Music for Every Day

“Abendlied – Evening Song
by Robert Schumann (1810–1856)”
― Clemency Burton-Hill, YEAR OF WONDER: Classical Music for Every Day

“22 May Au Gré des ondes – Along the waves
5: ‘Hommage à Bach’
by Henri Dutilleux (1916–2013)”
― Clemency Burton-Hill, YEAR OF WONDER: Classical Music for Every Day

“6 Mélodies, op. 5
No. 3 in E flat major: Andante soave
by Fanny Mendelssohn (1805–1847)”
― Clemency Burton-Hill, YEAR OF WONDER: Classical Music for Every Day

“10 May Piano Concerto no. 2 in F major, op. 102
2: Andante
by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)”
― Clemency Burton-Hill, YEAR OF WONDER: Classical Music for Every Day

“Violin Sonata no. 1 in G major, op. 78
1: Vivace ma no troppo
by Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)”
― Clemency Burton-Hill, YEAR OF WONDER: Classical Music for Every Day

“How Sweet the Moonlight’
from The Merchant of Venice
by Jocelyn Pook (b. 1960)”
― Clemency Burton-Hill, YEAR OF WONDER: Classical Music for Every Day

“Ambre
by Nils Frahm (b. 1982)”
― Clemency Burton-Hill, YEAR OF WONDER: Classical Music for Every Day

“In the month of March
by Toru Takemitsu (1930–1996)”
― Clemency Burton-Hill, YEAR OF WONDER: Classical Music for Every Day

“17 March Nocturne no. 5 in B flat major
by John Field (1782–1837)”
― Clemency Burton-Hill, YEAR OF WONDER: Classical Music for Every Day

“11 February Nocturne for violin and piano
by Lili Boulanger (1893–1918)”
― Clemency Burton-Hill, YEAR OF WONDER: Classical Music for Every Day

“8 February Homo fugit velut umbra (Passacaglia della vita)
by Stefano Landi (1587–1639)”
― Clemency Burton-Hill, YEAR OF WONDER: Classical Music for Every Day

“7 February Miserere
by Gregorio Allegri (c. 1582–1652)”
― Clemency Burton-Hill, YEAR OF WONDER: Classical Music for Every Day

“Violin Sonata no. 1 in A major, op. 13
1: Allegro molto
by Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)”
― Clemency Burton-Hill, YEAR OF WONDER: Classical Music for Every Day

“Mass for Five Voices
5: Agnus Dei
by William Byrd (c. 1539/40–1623)”
― Clemency Burton-Hill, YEAR OF WONDER: Classical Music for Every Day

“Dirait-on’ – ‘Should We Say’
from Les chansons des roses
by Morten Lauridsen (b. 1943)”
― Clemency Burton-Hill, YEAR OF WONDER: Classical Music for Every Day