Five Rediscovered Musical Gems … and One Fake
A fresco at Puebla Cathedral by Mexican painter Cristóbal de Villalpando (Image: Devon Van Houten Maldonado)
On Friday 7 May the BBC Singers perform a newly discovered work by an anonymous late-Renaissance composer, found in the library of Mexico s Puebla Cathedral. Ahead of the broadcast, we recount the stories of five musical gems nearly lost to history – and one that never existed in the first place Musical Chars
In the months before his death, so the story goes, Johannes Brahms sat in front of his stove tossing old, unwanted manuscripts into the fire. Although probably apocryphal, the tale contains at least one nugget of truth: Brahms – like Duruflé, Tchaikovsky, Varèse and many others – was careful not to leave any music he considered second-rate to posterity.
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