Tag Archives: Theophilus Marzials

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

Posted on July 20, 2019 by

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 Decadent … Continue reading →

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

Posted on May 16, 2019 by

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 … Continue reading →

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