Theophilus Marzials

Original score for Marzials’s ‘Ask Nothing More’ (1883)

By Verseandmusic.com on July 20, 2019 • ( 0 )

Here is an original score for Theophilus Marzials’s popular song ‘Ask Nothing More’ (1883). The words are from Swinburne’s poem ‘The Oblation’ (Songs Before Sunrise, 1871). I played my own recording of this piece at the British Association of Decadence… Read More ›

‘The world, what is it to you, dear’: Mary Wakefield’s Maytime in Midwinter (1885)

By Verseandmusic.com on May 16, 2019 • ( 1 )

On the afternoon of 13 March 1878 at a charity concert at the Palazzo Odescalchi in Rome, Mary Wakefield started to sing. In the audience was Anne Crawford, the Baroness von Rabe, who was amazed by her performance. It had… Read More ›