Magic Harp - Benjamin Britten: Hymn St. Denio from Suite for Harp op. 83
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- Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten OM CH (22 November 1913 - 4 December 1976) was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He was a central figure of 20th-century British music, with a range of works including opera, other vocal music, orchestral, and chamber pieces. His best-known works include the opera Peter Grimes (1945), the War Requiem (1962), and the orchestral showpiece The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra (1945).
Eva Tomšič, Harp
Eva started to play the harp at the age of 6 in the music school in Koper, Slovenia. She held her first soloist concert at the age of 13. She proceeded with her harp studies first at the music high school in Koper and later at the Koninkljiik Konservatorium in Brussels, Belgium with prof. Jana Bouskova where obtained her bachelor's degree at the age of 21. In June 2018 she finished her Master's Degree in harp at the Mozarteum Universitaet in Salzburg, Austria with prof. Stephen Fitzpatrick. She has obtained several awards and prizes on the national and worldwide level, also the third prize in the world's most prestigious harp competition which is held in Israel every three years. She has performed in Australia, Wales, Belgium, France, Italy, Serbia, Germany, Israel, and Austria.
editoral and assisant director: Juš Hrastnik
producer and director: Primož Zevnik
Balance engineer: Mitja Krže (Radio Slovenia audio crew)
Floral: Yasmin (Tina Karba and Marko Trilar)
Cankarjev dom: Tina Kramberger
VPK: producer Sven Godec
MOPS: Marjan Cerar
PPZ: Primož Zevnik, director and producer
KLOPOTEC: mastering Iztok Zupan - Hudba
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Lovely interpretation by a most talented artist doing what she was meant to do, and does it better than anyone... Enjoyed every second of this wonderful performance, thanks for posting and sharing it with us...👏👏👏🙋
Greetings from ROMANIA!! WONDERFUL MUSIC, WONDERFUL INTERPRETATION, A WONDERFUL GIRL....👏👏👏👏👏
Sublime! Beautiful hand and plucking position.
Very good interpretation, thank you very much for bringing us this beautiful music.
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This is absolutely beautiful, Primož! Eva is superb, and obviously at the top of her profession. And what wonderful feeling and emotion comes through in her playing , as it does with Urška from your former orchestra. And I consider the seven-pedal concert harp as among the most beautiful of solo instruments, along with the concert grand piano and the violincello. I have listened to this several times today, so far, and the day is still young. 😊
Thank you so much for producing this beautiful recital, my friend. You were not exaggerating about how superb it would be.
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So young , and so talented, and such an elegant performance.
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the Harp is an ancient Afrikan instrument.
A Tale of Two Homosexuals (1) ..... one, Benjamin Britten, who, at a time of rampant homophobia, got away with it, the other, Alan Turing, the man whose brilliance was possibly the greatest contribution to the defeat of Nazism, was persecuted by homophobic police (gestapo) and driven to suicide. Benjamin and Alan were born just 17 months apart.
Benjamin Britten (Benjamin is his middle name, he was christened Edward Benjamin Britten) was homosexual and in a relationship with Peter Pears, a second rate tenor (Pronounced Pee ers or "piers") from 1937 to Benjamin's death in 1976. Benjamin also had a fascination for teenage boys. It must be said that a number of those boys following Benjamin's death, when the gutter press, and some academics acting out of professional spite, started a failed campaign of defamation, came to his defence saying that, other than a bit of naked swimming, Benjamin's interest was, shall we say, artistic rather than physically sexual .... he just liked looking at naked young teenage boys. Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears were just two of a nexus of homosexual artistic types that included Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden among many others. Peter Pears was notorious for chasing anything in trousers.
ALAN TURING was also a homosexual. He was socially awkward, and some say arrogant. Others might say that, as he had a brain the size of a planet, he had a right to be arrogant. At the beginning of the Second World War, Alan Turing was one of a number of very clever people who were gathered together at a top secret establishment called Bletchley Park, about 30 miles (50 kms) north-west of London, their mission to break the Nazi "Enigma Code". The Polish Home Army, (Poland never surrendered to the Nazis) succeeded in obtaining a Nazi Enigma coding machine and they smuggled it to Sweden and gave it to British Military Intelligence who sent it to Bletchley Park.
Everyone at Bletchley Park, except for Alan, tried to break the code using traditional cypher-breaking methods, many of them were brilliant chess players, but Alan said that the key lay in mathematics. Cyphers had fascinated him since his early teens and he was aware of work on mathematical codebreaking done in Poland before the War. He was ridiculed by some of his colleagues, and it must be said that his social awkwardness and conceit did nothing to help him make friends and influence people. Despite opposition and several attempts by officialdom to destroy his work, they said it was a waste of time and was costing too much money, he eventually succeeded, almost single-handedly, in breaking the Enigma Code. During this time, the Nazis added an extra rotor making the number of combinations even greater but it was a chance observation by a female clerk who transcribed the German morse code into written form reported to Alan that uncoded communications often included imformation about the weather and signed off with "Heil Hitler". By giving Alan's machine this imformation, it greatly reduced the number of combinations and Alan's machine began to break the code,. In addition, although instructed to change their call sign every night, many German radio operators didn't. Even though the code was changed at midnight every night by the Nazis, the machine began to break the code within hours each morning. It is no exaggeration to say that Alan's work enabled the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force to defeat the U-boat menace and save Britain from possible starvation, and, by careful use of the imformation, the Nazis never suspected that the code had been broken, gave vital imformation to the allies thereafter almost minute by minute leading to their ultimate defeat. Other people including engineers assisted Alan in various ways but it was Alan's vision and planning that produced the "Bomb", the machine that broke the codes.
In 1945, all trace of the work at Bletchley Park was destroyed. New machines were built elsewhere, the work aided by Alan for a further seven years. Alan's work was kept secret and gave British Military Intelligence the edge for decades to come.
Alan WAS the inventor of the electronic computer.
A Tale of Two Homosexuals (2) ..... In the early 1950's, Alan's homosexuality became known to the police following a break-in at Alan's home. The police, like dogs at a rabbit hole just could not leave Alan alone and became even more interested when Alan refused to say what he had been doing in the War (he was forbidden to discuss it with anyone, the work covered by the Official Secrets Act 1939). The police investigators were even more disturbed when they were met with a brick wall when they tried to find out through official channels. It is almost as if in frustration at being thwarted, the police redoubled their efforts to persecute Alan for SOMETHING ..... ANYTHING. The main investigating officer believed that Alan was a Soviet spy (which he was not), but more "traditional" police attitudes lead others to pursue possible homosexuality. If they couldn't get him as a spy, they would take the consolation prize and get him for homosexuality. Alan was prosecuted and found guilty of "Acts of gross indecency". Rather than face years in prison and therefore denied access to his work, he agreed to chemical castration. The effects of the drug caused massive weight gain, the development of breasts, and his ability to concentrate on his work on computing and other projects was diminished leading to depression and eventually to suicide. There have been suggestions by some whose twisted minds lead them to try to confuse the issue, that Alan's death by cyanide poisoning was an accident. This is rubbish. Alan was very familiar with the dangers of cyanide. He used cyanide in preparing parts for his electronics. The fairy tale of "Snow White" was always dear to Alan's heart and there is no doubt that Alan committed suicide by consuming much of an apple that he had deliberately contaminated with cyanide. He was effectively murdered by the police who are, for the most part, a self-selecting bunch of paranoid, depressive, boarish, racist, murdering, cowardly, lying psychopaths whose role in life is to add to the sum total of pain, misery, grief and anxiety.
Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears were also on the police radar, but, much to their frustration, the homophobic police were forbidden to take action.
Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears were conscientious objectors ..... cowards hiding behind the bravery of others. There have been many other famous conscientious objectors who, nonetheless, showed great bravery. I give you, in my view, Britain's most significant composer of the Twentieth Century, Ralph Vaughan Williams, a conscientious objector of the Great War, a man who would not kill another but distinguished himself as an ambulance driver on the Western Front. He put his life in danger day after day, often under bombardment, extracted wounded soldiers from the battle lines. Benjamin Britain and Peter Pears ran to America in 1939. Feeling homesick, they returned to England in 1942 after the risk of Nazi invasion had passed. For the rest of the Second World War, they skulked in the Suffolk countryside composing and singing.
Alan Turing saved the Free World from Nazism.
SO, why was Alan Turing persecuted by the homophobic police to suicide whilst Benjamin and Peter were not ? The answer is simply this. Because of the security implications, Alan was unknown other than in a small academic world of advanced mathematics, not even those who shared that world, knew of the significance of Alan's war work. No help was forthcoming from the security services who were paranoid about any of their secrets being exposed if they had come to Alan's aid. Many in the security services were homophobic and regarded Alan as an embarrassment. They wished that Alan's work had been done by someone who was "normal". ALAN WAS HUNG OUT TO DRY. In contrast, Benjamin and Peter were famous and enjoyed Royal patronage, Benjamin was awarded the "Order of Merit" and just before he died, was made a life peer becoming "Baron Britten, of Aldeburgh in the County of Suffolk". He also enjoyed the patronage of other homosexuals in influential positions including many later exposed as traitors .... Sir Anthony Blunt, Guy Burgess, Donald McLean etc. A memorial service for Benjamin was held at Westminster Abbey on 10 March 1977, at which, the congregation was headed by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (George VI's wife). Whilst, in the last couple of decades, there has been recognition of Alan's work and public apologies and a pardon from the Queen, no member of royalty has attended any memorial for Alan.
Benjamin Britten knew the right people. Alan did not.
Whilst homosexuality gives me the weebie-gebbies, I don't see my own "normal" sexual orientation to be a reason for persecuting "gays". I have known a number of openly homosexual men over the years, they stayed on their side of the table and me on mine, all of whom I have found to be empathetic, kind and generous, and above all funny, and with the growth of the human population of the World being out of control, a major virtue of homosexuals is that they don't breed much.
I don't argue that Benjamin and Peter should have been prosecuted for their homosexuality, but even as conscientious objectors they could have been ordered to play their part if not underground, in a surface job at a coal mine or worked in a bakery or done SOMETHING useful for the war effort but they didn't. What I DO argue is that the persecution (and I do MEAN persecution) of Alan was, and remains, a national disgrace.
That said, I agree that Benjamin Britten wrote some beautiful music. Perhaps his most famous work is the opera, "Peter Grimes", the tragic story of an "outsider" .... or, is it an allegory ? .... the persecution of a homosexual.
The opening notes of this piece, "Four Sea Interludes from "Peter Grimes" " is a description of a lonely stretch of the Suffolk Coast at dawn in the darker and colder days of the year when the damp chill can eat into your bones.
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Here is an example of Benjamin and Peter performing together in 1964. Personally. I'm not bothered.
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There is a very good and faithful dramatisation of the life of Alan Turing called "The Imitation Game" (not to be confused with other films of the same name). It is available for free on "Dailymotion". It is well worth seeing.
Correction - The fairy tale was, of course, "Sleeping Beauty".
You have the makings of a Very good book here about these remarkable men, my Friend. I have, of course, known Benjamin Britten's beautiful works since childhood, thanks to my concert pianist mother. And I have learned about Alan Turing only relatively recently, having seen "The Imitation Game" and through other sources previously, although I have known about the work done at Bletchley Park for decades. And I agree with you... Alan Did invent the modern electronic computer.
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