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The Forgotten Melodies Podcast features beautiful piano music you are unlikely to have heard before, played by one of the UK’s most exciting young pianists, Daniel Grimwood.
Each episode of the show features Danny playing four “forgotten melodies” - captivating but largely unknown piano pieces - and discussing their origin and what they mean to him with the show’s host and producer, Mike O’Hara.
5 Podcasts:
 1. FM005.mp3 (played 22 times)
2. FM004.mp3 (played 21 times)
3. FM003.mp3 (played 22 times)
4. FM002.mp3 (played 21 times)
5. FM001.mp3 (played 21 times)
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Forgotten Melodies, Episode Five
Welcome to Episode Five of The Forgotten Melodies Podcast, featuring Daniel Grimwood.
This week, to mark the 100th anniversary of his death in 1907, Danny focuses exclusively on the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg.
Born in Bergen to a musical family, Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843-1907) studied piano at the Leipzig conservatory and spent a number of years living [...]
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Forgotten Melodies, Episode Four
Welcome to Episode Four of The Forgotten Melodies Podcast, featuring Daniel Grimwood.
On this week’s show, Danny plays pieces by two Russian composers, Lyapunov and Rachmaninov.
Sergei Lyapunov (1859-1924) studied under Balakirev and was heavily influenced by him. He was a pianist of the highest virtuosity and a composer of mostly solo piano works, although he also wrote two symphonies, [...]
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Forgotten Melodies, Episode Three
Welcome to Episode Three of The Forgotten Melodies Podcast, featuring Daniel Grimwood.
This week, Danny focuses on two French composers, Charles Valentin Alkan and Francois Couperin (and finishes with a spot of JS Bach for good measure!).
Alkan (1813-1888), a contemporary of Chopin and Liszt, wrote almost exclusively for the keyboard, with a volume of work ranging from the [...]
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Forgotten Melodies, Episode Two
Welcome to Episode Two of The Forgotten Melodies Podcast.
This week, Danny Grimwood traces a path from the green fields of Ireland to the icy steppes of Russia, as he discusses how two western composers played a significant part in the development of Russian piano music.
To demonstrate this, Danny plays pieces by John Field, Adolf von Heselt, Mily [...]
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Forgotten Melodies, Episode One
Welcome to Episode One of “Forgotten Melodies”, the podcast featuring mostly undiscovered piano works by composers you may not have heard of before (and a few who you probably have), played by Daniel Grimwood, one of the UK’s most exciting young pianists.
For this, the first show in the series, Danny plays pieces by Kara Karaev, [...]
Hello and Welcome!
Hello and welcome to Forgotten Melodies, the podcast that features some of the most beautiful piano music you’ve never heard, played by one of the UK’s most exciting young pianists, Daniel Grimwood.
Each episode of the show features Danny playing four “forgotten melodies” - captivating piano pieces which you are unlikely to have heard before (with [...]
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