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Jessica Duchen
Goodreads Author
Born
London, The United Kingdom
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Some of my favourite authors include Hilary Mantel, Rose Tremain, Magg
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Member Since
November 2013
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https://www.goodreads.com/jessicaduchen
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Hungarian Dances
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2008
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Odette
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2018
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Ghost Variations
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2016
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Alicia's Gift
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2007
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Rites of Spring
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Immortal
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2020
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Songs of Triumphant Love
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2009
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Gabriel Faure (20th Century Composers)
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2000
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold (20th Century Composers)
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1996
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verstilde stemmen
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Authentic Korngold to raise the Proms roof
Last Saturday night, I left the Royal Albert Hall after the debut Prom of the Sinfonia of London and started down the slippery slope to South Kensington tube station. Moments later I stopped, because I'd realised I was, rather uncharacteristically, shaking all over.
What induced this state was an extraordinary concert by an orchestra that hasn’t performed for more than 60 years, reconvened and con
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“By art alone we are able to get outside ourselves, to know what another sees of this universe which for him is not ours, the landscapes of which would remain as unknown to us as those of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal, differing more widely from each other than those which roll round the infinite and which, whether their name be Rembrandt or Ver Meer, send us their unique rays many centuries after the hearth from which they emanate is extinguished.”
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“Still, it strikes me that there’s a tipping point in any ideology when facts and sense start to matter less than the imposition of that ideology for its own sake.”
― Ghost Variations
― Ghost Variations
“It is far more painful to awake from a beautiful slumber and – in that brief period when the continuity of life is still lost to you – to reach across the bed for a hand that is not there.”
― Conversations with Spirits
― Conversations with Spirits
“By art alone we are able to get outside ourselves, to know what another sees of this universe which for him is not ours, the landscapes of which would remain as unknown to us as those of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal, differing more widely from each other than those which roll round the infinite and which, whether their name be Rembrandt or Ver Meer, send us their unique rays many centuries after the hearth from which they emanate is extinguished.”
― In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
― In Search of Lost Time [volumes 1 to 7]
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