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Episodes
Thursday Jul 20, 2023
Thursday Jul 20, 2023
It's Cacophony… at the Women’s Football World Cup! A glorious celebration of music from around the world, all written by women, and chosen specially for Cacophony by leading female musicians.
Elena Kats-Chernin presents her choices of music from Australia - composers who all work hard and write music of vitality, invention, intensity and often fun!
Listening time: podcast 24mins, music playlist 25 mins
The music is available in the YouTube playlist
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The Women's World Cup of Classical Music is underway at www.cacophonyonline.com
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Wednesday Jul 19, 2023
Wednesday Jul 19, 2023
It's Cacophony… at the Women’s Football World Cup! A glorious celebration of music from around the world, all written by women, and chosen specially for Cacophony by leading female musicians.
In this epsiode, Inés Medina Fernández presents her choices of music from Spain, carefully chosen from accross the country and including including famous musical names we might know - but pieces we definitely won't!
Listening time: podcast 24mins, music playlist 20 mins
The complete music is available in the YouTube playlist.
You can discover more about Inés Medina-Fernández on her website: https://www.inesmedinafernandez.com
What do you think? Leave a comment or easy voice-message at Cacophonyonline.com
If you can, please consider making a donation to support Cacophony at Ko-fi.com. If you'd like particularly to support female composers, or sponsor Spain - leave an appropriate message!
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Monday Jul 17, 2023
Monday Jul 17, 2023
It's Cacophony… at the Women’s Football World Cup! A glorious celebration of music from around the world, all written by women, and chosen specially for Cacophony by leading female musicians.
This episode features music from the Netherlands and Marion von Tilzer's choices of music that gets us more connected. We'll hear how, when a performer is relaxed, it can be like being in the audience...or writing the music afresh, and why the Netherlands is famous for painters...but not composers...
Listening time: podcast 21mins, music playlist29 mins
The complete music is available in the YouTube playlist.
You can discover more about Marion von Tilzer on her website: https://marionvontilzer.com
What do you think? Leave a comment or easy voice-message at Cacophonyonline.com
If you can, please consider making a donation to support Cacophony at Ko-fi.com. If you'd like particularly to support female composers, or sponsor The Netherlands - leave an appropriate message!
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Sunday Jul 16, 2023
Sunday Jul 16, 2023
It's Cacophony …at the Women’s Football World Cup! A glorious celebration of music from around the world, all written by women, and chosen specially for Cacophony by leading female musicians.
This epsiode we hear top young composer, Sage Shurman, getting super excited - in a pretty chilled Californian kind of way - for both the World Cup football and her choices of pieces by living women American composers for the Women's World Cup of Classical Music. Can the USA win both? - That will be down to you to decide!
Listening time: podcast 19mins, music playlist 16 mins
The complete music is available in the YouTube playlist.
You can discover more about Sage Shurman on her website: http://sageshurman.com
What do you think? Leave a comment or easy voice-message at Cacophonyonline.com
If you can, please consider making a donation to support Cacophony at Ko-fi.com. If you'd like particularly to support female composers, or sponsor the USA - leave an appropriate message!
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Saturday Jul 15, 2023
Saturday Jul 15, 2023
It's Cacophony …at the Women’s Football World Cup! A glorious celebration of music from around the world, all written by women, and chosen specially for Cacophony by leading female musicians.
In this episode we hear from Katharina Nohl, founder of the Swiss Female Composers Festival, with her choices of music from Switzerland and how giving female composers greater exposure helps plant their music in the collective memory of society.
The complete music is available in the YouTube playlist.
You can discover more about Katharina Nohl on her website: https://www.katharina-nohl.ch
What do you think? Leave a comment or easy voice-message at Cacophonyonline.com
If you can, please consider making a donation to support Cacophony at Ko-fi.com. If you'd like particularly to support female composers, or sponsor Switzerland - leave an appropriate message!
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Thursday Jun 22, 2023
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
By turns grand and genial with moments of great inventiveness and wit, Louise Farrenc's Nonet for wind and strings is a bit of magic!
Listening time 37 mins (podcast 7', music 30')
Music here on Youtube, Spotify, Amazon and Apple Musics (tracks 7-10) played by the Intercontinental Ensemble with tons of style and (unlike some of the other recordings) totally in tune! You can buy the recording as a download from Presto music: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9312834--arc
Thanks to Emmie for timely-making of a giant daisy chain!
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If you’d like to support Cacophony there are easy, great, ways:
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Sunday Jun 11, 2023
Sunday Jun 11, 2023
Meeting his boss's insatiable desire for new content 'forced' [his word] Joseph Haydn to write original, inventive music that sounds as fresh and full of life today as when it was written. And he wrote so much great music that I only heard this piano trio for the first time this week - and it's wonderful stuff.
Listening time 19 mins (podcast 6', music 13')
The music is here, played by the incomparable Beaux Arts Trio on Youtube and Spotify. If you're listening on Apple or Amazon you need a link for each movement/ track:
Amazon mvt 1 / Amazon mvt 2
Apple mvt 1/ Apple mvt 2
You can buy a recording of the piece as a high-quality download for a couple of quid here at Presto Music. Be sure to get the right one - the full title of the piece is: Haydn: Piano Trio No. 19 in F, Hob.XV:6
What do you think? Tell me with a comment at www.cacophonyonline.com! I'd love to hear from you!
If you’d like to support Cacophony there are easy, great, ways:
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Wednesday May 31, 2023
Wednesday May 31, 2023
110 years ago in Paris, Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring caused a furore and changed music forever. Did the police have to be called? It's still a piece that shocks and stuns and is filled with something amazing every second.
Listening time c45 mins (podcast, 12', Music 33')
Music here on Spotify, Amazon and Apple Music played by the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie with conductor, Peter Eötvös. You can buy the recording or stream it too at Presto Music
There are plenty of video performances on Youtube. I like this one, played by the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France with Mikko Franck. The TV director really captures the personalities in the orchestra and gets in nice and close.
What do you think? Tell me with a comment at www.cacophonyonline.com! I'd love to hear from you!
If you’d like to support Cacophony there are easy, great, ways:
– help with the costs of running it (and me) with a one-off contribution or with a regular payment at ko-fi.com. https://ko-fi.com/cacophonyonline
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Sunday May 21, 2023
Sunday May 21, 2023
A rarity from Wales (a Welsh rare-bit?), Grace Williams's orchestral piece Penillion surprises, delights and has an epic grandeur. It's terrific stuff and I think you'll love it!
Listening time 25 mins (podcast, 7', Music 18')
Music here on Youtube played by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes
What do you think? Tell me with a comment at www.cacophonyonline.com! I'd love to hear from you!
If you’d like to support Cacophony there are easy, great, ways:
– help with the costs of running it (and me) with a one-off contribution or with a regular payment at ko-fi.com. https://ko-fi.com/cacophonyonline
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Wednesday May 10, 2023
Wednesday May 10, 2023
Another great, short piece, here's the first of Joan Tower's Fanfares celebrating risk-taking and adventurous women. This is both celebratory and substantial, plus a workout for brass and percussion.
Listening time 8 mins (podcast 5.5', music 2.5')
Listen to the music, Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No.1, here on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Music or Amazon music played by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin. You can buy a recording of the piece here at Prestomusic.com (but you have to scroll all the way to the end of a long track listing)
On Youtube you can watch the work's dedicatee, Marin Alsop conduct this alongside Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man.
And here there's a nice interview with Joan Tower - she seems like a fun person!
Copland's Fanfare was featured last time on Cacophony.
Stravinsky's Petrushka was episode 138.
What do you think? Tell me with a comment at www.cacophonyonline.com! I'd love to hear from you!
If you’d like to support Cacophony there are easy, great, ways:
– help with the costs of running it (and me) with a one-off contribution or with a regular payment at ko-fi.com. https://ko-fi.com/cacophonyonline
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More episodes at: www.cacophonyonline.com/
Thanks for listening!