Donald Burrows
speaker
179 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 7 May
Donald Burrows’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He doesn't register anything apart from the strings.
And this looks like this is, as it were, mobile work that you can take anywhere.
But then the whole argument is then screwed up because after it he writes Samson.
Now, Samson is a London work that needs London-type soloists, and heaven help us, it's got trombones in the orchestra.
You won't find them in Dublin.
And he wrote that second.
So what on earth was he thinking during that summer period when he was writing these works?
Is he thinking Dublin, London?
Well, I've got something for both, because in the seasons after this, when he's regularly in London...
Thank you.
We have a pattern, which is what we get in 1941, is that he uses the summer-autumn to write two new works for the next season.
That's what he's done.
They're just very different from each other.
I mean, what obviously made sense in the 1740s, you talk about August, September, you're living in Brook Street, the streets are quiet because everyone's off at their country houses.
You know, you can have a quiet time, you can concentrate on writing the music.
And that pattern is there with 1741, but it doesn't quite make sense because half of it looks like this is something I might take.
Had he had the invitation to Dublin at that stage, this is where I think Matthew Borg...
Who lives half the time in London and half the time in Dublin.
He has to go to Dublin because he's master of the state music, so he has to write the ode for the king's birthday that's done at Dublin Castle.
So he's there basically during late autumn, winter, but he's in London for other times of the year.
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