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Exploring classical music in all its glories and complexities. From the sweetest melodic to the cutting edge of the avant-garde... from the deep past to the freshest contemporary. All of it. The joy of classical music.
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This week, kick back, shut your eyes and let the music carry you away.
Xuefei Yang performs Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence.
Caroline Shaw - The Mona Lisa, from the Ken Burns film Leonardo da Vinci (Original Score)
Arnold Bax ~ Elegiac Trio
The Chamber Choir of Europe performs Brahms - Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, Op. 29
Seong-Jin Cho performs Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte 6:28
Sabine Devieilhe performs George Frideric Handel - Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17, Act III: Piangerò la sorte mia
The Tenebrae Choir performs Paul Mealor - Ubi Caritas
David Bedford - Sun Paints Rainbows on the Vast Waves
This week its all about the classical guitar and we’ll be visiting with virtuoso guitarists from Croatia, Portugal, Brazil, Spain, Aotearoa NZ, New York, Ukraine, Australia, Russia and China.
rina Kulikova performs Konstantin Vassiliev - 3 Lyric Pieces:
No.1: Elegie in memoriam Sergey Rachmaninov
From his album Van Gough Fire - Marko Topchii performs Antonio Ruiz-Pipó -Canción y Danza No. 1
Philip Norman - Inception for Infinity for Solo Guitar and String Orchestra
Aleksandr Tsiboulski performs Peter Sculthorpe - From Kakadu: 1. Grave
Matthew Marshall performs Michael Calvert’s Gaston in Love from the album Rhapsody on a Riff
Carlos Paredes - Canção Verde Anos (The Green Years Song)
Xuefei Yang performs Mark Houghton - Dance of the Orient
Ana Vidovic performs Johann Sebastian Bach’s - Lute Partita in E Major, BWV 1006a (arr. W. Despalj) : I. Preludio
Andrés Segovia performs Francisco Tárrega - Recuerdos de la Alhambra
Julian Bream and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by André Previn - Heitor Villa-Lobos: Concerto for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra
No big themes this week, just a selection of the interesting and unusual from all around the world with a focus on Chickasaw composer Jerod Tate’s Fire and Light, a work that explores Chickasaw identity and culture (The Chickasaw are indigenous to the South Western regions of the USA).
Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate - Lowak Shoppala', Act I: I. Fire and Light.
Phillip Martin performs Edward MacDowell - Woodland Sketches, Op. 51: I. To a Wild Rose
Dubravka Srebotnjak performs Christian Sinding - Rustle of Spring Op. 32 No. 3
The Canby Singers perform Claudio Monteverdi - Zefiro Torna
Takashi Yoshimatsu - Symphony No. 1, Op. 40 "Kamui-Chikap Symphony": V. Rainbow
Bella Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances for Orchestra
Meredith Monk - Book of Days: Early Melody
Miriam Margolyes performs Francis Poulenc -The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant: I. The Story of Babar
ZOFO Piano Duet perform David Lang - Gravity
Jerod Tate - Lowak Shoppala', Act I: III. Shell Shaker
My exploration of Music Inspired by Science Fiction is almost over with one more episode to come. Lost in space, strange alien phenomenon and nuclear armageddon, this episode is mostly about the existential crisis. Then there’s Ursula Le Guin and Elinor Armer’s ‘Season of Oling’ from their 2 CD set ‘Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts’ and Essa Pekka Salonen’s Floof, joyous works which are the exact opposite of everything else featured in the episode.
Meredith Monk and Ping Chong - The Games: Movement 3 - Migration
Tod Dockstader - Quatermass Movement 2: Tango
Ursula Le Guin and Elinor Armer - Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts: The Seasons of Oling
Esa-Pekka Salonen - Floof (Songs of a Homeostatic Homer)
Karl-Birger Blomdahl - Aniara, An Epic of Spaceflight in 2038 AD: The Yurg, The Mimarobe (also known as Aniara: A Revue of Man in Time and Space)
Michael Obst - Crystal World: Part I
Episode 121 visits the year 1962. Usually in these sorts of episodes I stick to works published in the given year - for this episode I’ve widened the parameters to include album releases and music events.
Sergio Franchi performs Ungrateful Heart on The Ed Sullivan Show
Igor Stravinsky - Movements For Piano And Orchestra
Ravi Shanker - Improvisation on the Theme Music from Pather Panchali
The Canby Singers perform Elliot Carter’s - Musicians Wrestle Everywhere
Benjamin Britten - Let Us Sleep Now In Paradisum, movement 6 from War Requiem
La Monte Young - The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer
Aaron Copland - Connotations for Orchestra
This weeks it’s leftovers, music I’d selected for previous episodes and ran out of time to play. It’s an eclectic mix that takes us from the contemporary through to the medieval.
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa performs Vissi d’arte from Act 2 of Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca.
Mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo performs Missy Mazzoli – A Thousand Tongues.
Jeremy Denk plays Doulz amis by Guillaume de Machaut.
The NZ String Quartet performs Long Zhou - Song of the Ch’in.
Luciano Pavarotti performs Mamma, quel vino è generoso from Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana.
VOCES8 performs Ola Gjeilo’s Northern Lights
Robert Wyatt performs John Cage - Experiences No 2
Bernard Herrmann on Film Music
Simon Ghraichy performs Arturo Márquez: Danzón’s No. 2
Kiri Te Kanawa performs Franz Liszt - Oh, quand je dors
Part 2 - Music Inspired by Science Fiction
The centrepiece of Part 2 of Music Inspired by Science Fiction is David Bedford’s City and the Stars Cantata, a work inspired by Arthur C Clarke’s 1956 novel of the same name. There’s more from sci-fi icon Ursula Le Guin and an aria from Voyagers, a sci-fi themed opera by Philip Glass. And yes, there’s more Sci-Fi Classical to come.
1. Ursula Le Guin and Todd Barton – Dragonfly Song from Music and Poetry of the Kesh.
2. Philip Glass talks about his operatic adaptation of Doris Lessing’s novel The Making of the Representative from Planet 9
3. Mari Morya and the MDR Radio Choir perform Philip Glass - The Voyage: Act 1 Scene 3 - In My Secret Heart
4. David Bedford - The City and the Stars Cantata featuring Arthur C Clarke
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Classical Music inspired by science fiction is one of classical musics most obscure sub-genres and over the last few weeks I’ve been compiling a list works that I hope will offer new light on this hidden corner of art music.
Ursula Le Guin and David Bedford - Funeral Procession from the “Space Opera” Rigel 9
Tod Machover - Valis, Pt. 1: We Appear to be Memory Coils
Tod Machover - Valis, Pt. 1: You Know, I Have These Dreams of a Strange Place
Tod Machover - Death and the Powers, Part 1: Simon and the System
Jerry Goldsmith - Christus Apollo: Part III
Ralph Lundsten - Alpha Ralpha Boulevard
David Bedford - An Extract From 'Star's End’
Peter Pears performs David Bedford - The Tentacles of the Dark Nebula
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Episode 117 picks up where we left off in episode 116, in search of the seldom heard music of South America. Much of the music in the episode dates from the mid-20th century and follows a pattern we find in North America, Australia, and Aotearoa NZ, composers seeking to blend the physical and cultural landscapes of their homelands with inherited European musical traditions.
Anna Moffo performs Heitor Villa-Lobos - Brazilian Bachianas No. 5: Aria
Jason Vieaux performs Julian Orbon - Danza
Carlos Chavez - Xochipili (Imagined Aztec Music)
Leo Brouwer - One Day in November
Alberto Ginastera - Bomarzo, Op. 34: Act II: Scene 12: Song to the Minotaur.
Alberto Ginastera - Bomarzo, Op. 34: Act II: Scene 12: Second Strophe of Song
Clara Rodriguez performs Teresa Carreño - Basket of Flowers
John Williams performs Agustin Barrios - La Cathedral
Antonio Estevez - Noon on the Prairie
Adam Kent performs Tania Leon - Homenatge
Episode 116 of the The Joy of Classical Music finds us strolling through rarely explored territories of South American music in search of the interesting and unusual.
Gilberto Mendes - Motet in D minor Drink Coca-Cola
Gilberto Mendes – Santos Football Music
Cláudio Santoro - Ponteio
Silvestre Revueltas - Sensemayá
Alberto Ginastera: Five Popular Argentine Songs
Tania Leon - In Motion: 5th Movement - Understanding
Astor Piazzolla - Maria de Buenos Aires: Ballad for a Crazy Barrel Organ
I finished last week's episode by saying that next week's episode would have no grand themes, just a collection of bits and bobs, music for music's sake. As it turns out, it’s another themed episode, The Art of the Voice. There’s bass singers, tenors, countertenors, sopranos, contralto’s baritones and a choir. And there’s a very special guest, Terry Huggins, a basso profundo from Geraldine.
Cleo Laine and the Nash Ensemble performing Drunk with Moon Light from Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot in the Moonlight
Terry Huggins performs Jacques Ibert - La Chanson de la mort de
Gemma Bertagnolli performs Ottorino Respighi - Musica in horto
Philippe Jaroussky performs Francesco Cavalli – Ombra mai fu
Enrico Caruso performs Gaetano Donizetti - A Furtive Tear
Feodor Chaliapin - Song of the Volga Boatmen
Lina Mkrtchyan performs Mikhail Glinka - A Farewell to Saint Petersburg: No. 10, The Lark
Cleo Laine and the Nash Ensemble perform The Sick Moon from Pierrot Lunaire
Dmitri Hvorostovsky performs Tolstyakov - Come To Me, All You Who Labour
Jessye Norman performs Eric Satie - Je te veux.
Terry Huggins performs Anton Rubinstein’s The Turbulent Waters of Kur.
Choir of Claire College Cambridge perform Imogen Holst’s Welcome Joy and Sorrow
Terry Huggins performs Beethoven’s In this Dark Tomb
Marian Anderson - Deep River
Episode 114 examines something of the profundity many of us feel when we look up at the night sky and lock gaze with the blazing eyes of a billion stars.
Eric Whitacre - Deep Field: 4 - Earth Choir
Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony: II. On the Beach at Night, Alone
Henry Dutilleux - Timbres, Espace, Mouvement (Starry Night): 1. Nebula
David Bedford - Some Stars beyond Magnitude 2,9
Joaquin Rodrigo - In Search of What Lies Beyond
Olivier Messiaen - From the Canyons to the Stars: 3 - What is Written in the Stars
Olivier Messiaen - From the Canyons to the Stars: 6 - Interstellar Call
Musicologist Anna Andrushkevich: “Schnittke’s world puts the person who wishes to enter it to the test and does not admit everyone. But once one has understood this music, once one has submitted to its aim, it is impossible to return to one’s previous point of equilibrium.”
Alfred Schnittke - The Glass Harmonica Suite: I. The Musician and the Carillon
Alfred Schnittke - Faust Cantata: VI. False Consolation
Alfred Schnittke - Concerto for Mixed Chorus: IV. This Work I Begin With Hope
Alfred Schnittke - Life with an Idiot : Tango
Alfred Schnittke - (Not) a Midsummer Night's Dream
Alfred Schnittke - Declaration of Love
Alfred Schnittke - The Faust Cantata: Be Sober and Watch
Alfred Schnittke - Concerto for Piano and Strings
Episode 112 of the Joy of Classical Music revisits Episode 77, The Music of Ideology, Imperialism, Politics, Protest and Agitation and in part 2 we continue exploring a style of music designed to inflame our senses and arouse our passions.
Hayley Westenra - God Defend New Zealand
Risen from the Ruins - The National Anthem of East Germany
Hans Eisler and Bertolt Brecht - The Solidarity Song
Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5, 1V Movement
Giuseppe Verdi - Nabucco, Act III: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves
Undine Smith Moore - Before I'd be a Slave
Aaron Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man
Spyridon Samaras - The Olympic Hymn
Hubert Parry - Jerusalem
Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture
Film scores have been a regular feature on this podcast since day one and with todays episode I’ve decided to explore the film music I usually leave out because well, very little of it is classical, though much of it was written by classically trained composers.
Gene Wilder performs - Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse - Pure Imagination
Anthony Newley Leslie Bricusse - Oompa-Loompa Doompa-Dee-Do
Percy Faith performs Max Steiner - Theme from a Summer Place
Miklos Rozsa - Dementia
Miklos Rozsa - The Time Machine Waltz
Tommy Reilly performs John Barry’s Harmonica Theme.
Alexander Courage - Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Danish National Symphony Orchestra performs -
Ennio Morricone - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Ferrante & Teicher perform Maurice Jarre’s Theme From Lawrence Of Arabia
The Ray Conniff Singers perform Maurice Jarre - Somewhere, My Love
Takanobu Saito - Theme from Tokyo Story
Henry Mancini’s arrangement of Nina Rota’s theme from Romeo and Juliet - A Time for Us
Nino Rota - Theme from Fellini’s 8 and a Half
Anton Karas - The Third Man Theme
Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer - Moon River
The previous episode started out as Four Australian Women but ended up as three because I ran out of space for number four, composer, pianist, teacher and poet Miriam Hyde. In Episode 110 we catch up with Miriam along with a number of other composers whose music I’d selected for previous episodes but had to leave out because of time.
Miriam Hyde - Five Solos for Flute and Piano: Beside the Stream
Miriam Hyde performs The Fountain on Sunday Afternoon with Peter Ross ABC Australia (1991)
Rachmaninoff plays Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor.
Mikhail Matyushin - Victory over the Sun
Leonard Mark Lewis - Warm Summer Sun
The Kronos Quartet performs Terry Riley - Sun Rings: One Earth, One People, One Love
Jeremy Denk and Stephan Jackiw - Ives' Violin Sonata No. 2: II. In the Barn
Heitor Villa-Lobos - String Quartet No. 12: 1
George Antheil – Symphony No. 5 Joyous: 1
Episode 109 of The Joy of Classical Music explores the music of three Australian Women: Dulcie Holland, Peggy Glanville Hicks and Anne Boyd.
Jeanell Carrigan performs Dulcie Holland - Nocturne
The Chamber Choir Kammerchor Stuttgart performs Anne Boyd - As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams
The Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra performs Peggy Glanville-Hicks - Sinfonia da Pacifica
Anne Boyd - Goldfish Through Summer Rain
Ronan Apcar performs Dulce Holland - Sonata for Piano
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Episode 108 of The Joy of Classical Music is a special extra long edition dedicated to Cambridge born composer David Farquhar, and by Cambridge, I mean Cambridge NZ, the cultural and sporting epicentre of the bucolic Waipa District. In this episode we explore David’s life and work with a special emphasis on 1964’s Cambridge Ode, a work commissioned to celebrate the towns centenary.
David Farquhar - Tom, he was a piper's son & Lavender's blue
David Farquhar - Ode For Piano performed by Georgina Zellan- Smith
The Auckland Youth Orchestra performs David Farquhar - Harlequin Overture
Pianist Jian Liu and violinist Martin Riseley perform David Farquhar’s Ring around the Moon
The Concord Brass performs David Farquhar - Homage to Stravinsky for Brass Quintet
Gunter Herbig performs David Farquhar - Prospero Dreaming
David Farquhar - Third Symphony: Remembered Songs
The Alex Lindsay Orchestra performs David Farquhar - Ring Around the Moon
Episode 107 of The Joy of Classical Music is a celebration of all things Aotearoa NZ and besides some joyous and uplifting music, there’s a bit of nostalgia as well.
John Clark - We Don’t Know Lucky We Are
Jenny McCloud - A & P Show, the 3rd Movement from 1986 orchestral suite Celebrations
The Tower Voices NZ performs David Hamiltons - Lux Aeterna.
Ron Goodwin conducts the NZ Symphony Orchestra - Aotearoa (Land of the Long White Cloud) from his NZ Suite.
Douglas Lilburn - Aotearoa
David Farquhar – Ring Round the Moon
Ron Goodwin and the NZ Symphony Orchestra - Milford Sound from his NZ Suite
Henry Wong Doe performs Victoria Kelly - Goodnight Kiwi
Kiri Te Kanawa - Hine e Hine
At the heart of David Mitchell’s 2004 novel Cloud Atlas is a composition called The Cloud Atlas Sextet. What would it actually sound like? We listen to The Cloud Atlas Sextet as imagined by the creators of the 2012 film adaptation then compare it to the composition as described by the book.
From the Cloud Atlas Film Soundtrack - The Cloud Atlas Sextet for Orchestra.
Alexander Scriabin - White Mass
Leonard Bernstein and the Israeli Symphony Orchestra perform Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, movements 1 and 2
Maria João Pires performs Debussy - Clair de Lune
Miwa Yuguchi performs Toshi Ichiyanagi - Cloud Atlas II
Two Aquarelles - Music by Fredrick Delius, arranged for strings by Eric Fenby
National Hungarian Radio Orchestra performs Alessio Elia - Dimensioni Nascoste
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