Paul Riley

United Kingdom

Journalist and Critic at BBC Music Magazine

chord changes, melodies, good vocals

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Virginia Primary Election results for U.S. House of Representatives District 5 on June 18, 2024

Jun 17, 2024 | wsls.com | Paul Riley |John McGuire |Gloria Tinsley Witt |Garry L. Terry

Published: June 17, 2024, 8:30 AMTags: Election Results, Decision 2024, June Primary, VirginiaSign up for our NewslettersScroll down to see the election results Published: June 17, 2024, 8:30 AMTags: Election Results, Decision 2024, June Primary, VirginiaIf you’re interested in finding results for the U.S. House of Representatives District 5 race for the 2024 June Primary, you can do so here. In this election, Gloria Tinsley Witt (D-Lynchburg), Paul A. Riley (D-Crozet), Garry L.
Cellular crosstalk to regenerate the injured heart - Nature Cardiovascular Research

Feb 13, 2024 | nature.com | Paul Riley

The cellular microenvironment and interplay between cell types are essential for cardiac renewal. Combined single-cell and single-nucleus sequencing, spatial transcriptomics and loss-of-function experiments in constitutively YAP-expressing infarcted hearts reveal a cellular triad and complement signaling that evoke renewal of heart muscle.
Maltworms & Milkmaids

Oct 2, 2023 | classical-music.com | Paul Riley

Warlock Maltworms & Milkmaids -Capriol Suite; Serenade (to Frederick Delius on his sixtieth birthday); An Old Song; As ever I saw; Mr Belloc's Fancy; Captain Stratton's Fancy; Little Trotty Wagtail etc Nadine Benjamin, Ben McAteer; BBC Singers; BBC Concert Orchestra/David Hill EM Records EMRCD080 73:52 mins An impromptu collaborative effort between EJ Moeran and Peter Warlock plus an irredeemably cheerful setting in folksong style by the latter secure the eye-catching title of an album whose...
composer, organist, theorist, Renaissance man extraordinaire

Sep 6, 2023 | classical-music.com | Paul Riley

It's surely no little irony that one of the most prolific composers of his age should be principally remembered - the toe-tapping dance card of Terpsichore aside - for a humble Christmastide chorale harmonisation of some dozen bars. Spare yet serene, its effortless nobility haunts. And an abidingly-hopeful harmonic twist applied to the penultimate cadence is as magical as the season itself.
An Invitation at the Schumanns

Sep 5, 2023 | classical-music.com | Paul Riley

An Invitation at the Schumanns Works by Brahms, C Schumann, R Schumann, JS Bach, Gade, D Scarlatti, Mendelssohn Samuel Hasselhorn (baritone), Jorge González Buajasan (piano); Trio DichterHarmonia Mundi HMM902509 79:19 mins Careful thought underpins Trio Dichter's invitation to an imaginary soirée chez the Schumanns. Eavesdropping on the domestic music-making, we're not just seduced by their own music - Robert's Op. 80 Piano Trio at the heart of the programme.
Dieterich Buxtehude, the great Danish composer who inspired Bach

Aug 30, 2023 | classical-music.com | Paul Riley

So revered was the Danish-born Dietrich Buxtehude a young JS Bach walked from Arnstadt to Lübeck just to see him play the organ and meet him in person. Buxtehude's reputation as composer and performer spread far beyond the confines of the Marienkirche whose organ lofts he graced for nigh on 40 years. We named him one of the greatest Baroque composers ever When was Dieterich Buxtehude born?
a guide to Bach's Passiontide masterpiece and its best recordings

Aug 22, 2023 | classical-music.com | Paul Riley

When and why did Bach compose St John Passion? The job description couldn't have been plainer. As the Thomaskantor in Leipzig, Bach was required to compose and conduct church music that was neither too long nor operatic, but 'conducive to devotion' - and so, as he contemplated his first Passion setting for the Good Friday Vespers of 1724, he had demands other than just theological to ponder.
A guide to Bach Mass in B minor and its best recordings

Aug 15, 2023 | classical-music.com | Paul Riley

Hiring George Bernard Shaw as a music critic for The Star in 1888, the newspaper's editor advised him to 'say what you like, but for God's sake don't tell us anything about Bach in B minor'. In truth, there's an awful lot to tell. 'The Great Catholic Mass', as CPE Bach dubbed it (not quite accurately), raises countless questions yet ultimately silences them by dint of its all-conquering monumentality, the perfection of its myriad calculations, and the sheer humanity that informs every note.
Animal models to study cardiac regeneration - Nature Reviews Cardiology

Aug 14, 2023 | nature.com | Michael Weinberger |Paul Riley

AbstractPermanent fibrosis and chronic deterioration of heart function in patients after myocardial infarction present a major health-care burden worldwide. In contrast to the restricted potential for cellular and functional regeneration of the adult mammalian heart, a robust capacity for cardiac regeneration is seen during the neonatal period in mammals as well as in the adults of many fish and amphibian species.
a guide to the dramatic opera and its best recordings

Aug 13, 2023 | classical-music.com | Paul Riley |Jeremy Pound

According to the music historian Charles Burney, who knew him well, 'Handel's look was somewhat heavy and sour, but when he did smile it was his sire the sun bursting out of a black cloud'. Across is there anything to rival the sunburst that is Part I of Handel's music, Acis and Galatea, composed in 1718 for the pleasure-loving house guests of James Brydges, Earl of Carnarvon, and soon to be Duke of Chandos?