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Episodes
Monday May 18, 2020
Monday May 18, 2020
Give yourself a fright with a witches party on Bald Mountain! Scary stuff:
Music here: https://youtu.be/52iOdAVU4C8
or here on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2Tenwfk
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Friday May 15, 2020
Friday May 15, 2020
Hard to play, a lot of fun, a huge noise! John Adams sums up his own music nicely and this is a modern great to leave you uplifted and exhausted.
Music here: https://youtu.be/5LoUm_r7It8
and here on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2Z04UmY
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Thursday May 14, 2020
Thursday May 14, 2020
This is punchy music that still swings and sings and sends an energising message of optimism and generosity of spirit... though the composers claims would have been more modest.
Music here: https://youtu.be/LXgeRS4i4ME
And here on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2T1WWWy
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Wednesday May 13, 2020
Wednesday May 13, 2020
I love the fun and exuberance of this movement from Beethoven's 'first' Piano Concerto. For Beethoven, playing the piano at the first performance would have been the least of his worries.
Music here: https://youtu.be/BF7pmimzjBs?t=1580. 3rd Movement starts at 26'20" but the whole thing is fab if you have the time.
and here on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3dInLXN
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Tuesday May 12, 2020
Tuesday May 12, 2020
This is a personal discovery for me. The slow movement of this piano sonata by Schubert is so simple, beautiful and moving, I want to share it with everyone.
The music's included in the podcast for this one, so don't turn off before it plays! The pianist is Jeno Jando.
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Monday May 11, 2020
Monday May 11, 2020
This great piece is slightly schizophrenic - is it a serious piece of music over-run by people having fun, or a fun piece that's occasionally trying to be serious? Ligeti was showing his love for Romania, but the Soviet Hungarians weren't impressed....
Music here: https://youtu.be/Y3Q1t9wMgms
and on Spotify here: https://spoti.fi/2La29Hr
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Friday May 08, 2020
Friday May 08, 2020
The Soviet authorities banned the last of Ligeti's excellent and entertaining Six Bagatelles for wind quintet - too dangerous and subversive. Were they right?
Music here on film - highly recommended: https://youtu.be/txMWXvD8kL4
and here: https://spoti.fi/2WxMx5R
Total listen time 17'
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Thursday May 07, 2020
Thursday May 07, 2020
The composer Handel knew what the people wanted - and it was normally more Handel. Here’s a piece written to go in the interval of a Handel show! Emotional, passionate, invigorating.
Music here: https://youtu.be/htDf0bpFIys
And here: https://spoti.fi/3fwQkt1
Total listen time 20'
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Wednesday May 06, 2020
Wednesday May 06, 2020
I was going to play something quiet... and then came across this Handel's Fireworks Music. It's brilliant - these performances are raw, raucous and exuberant and it's more fun than this great piece has ever been.
Music here with pictures (recommended!): https://youtu.be/fNqJ8mED1VE
or (noise only) here: https://spoti.fi/2YmPokG
Total listen time 20'
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Tuesday May 05, 2020
Tuesday May 05, 2020
This actually might be the best thing ever: the end of Beethoven's 7th Symphony.
Intro in the pod, music here: https://youtu.be/ikb-2XRcQdk here on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/35tS4OP or here, with pictures: https://youtu.be/-4788Tmz9Zo, 4th movement starting at 34'00
It's a piece so full of relentless energy it almost belongs in a nightclub. You'll either be bouncing around or feel pinned to the spot!
13' total time for intro and music.
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