The Joy of Classical Music

• The Joy of Classical Music Ep 109 - Three Australian Women - 30-06-2025

  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 A radio show and podcast created and first aired at Free FM 89.0, a member of the Community Access Media Alliance Aotearoa/New Zealand. Supported by NZ on Air. freefm.org.nz and @freefm89 on Facebook and Instagram

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• The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 108 - David Farquhar, From Cambridge With Love - 23-06-2025

  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

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• The Joy of Classical Music - Ep 107 - We Don't Know How Lucky We Are - 16-06-2025

  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

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• The Joy of Classical Music - Ep 106 - In Search of the Cloud Atlas Sextet - 09-06-25

  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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• The Joy of Classical Music - Ep 105 - A Bit of This and a Bit of That - 02-06-25

  There are no overarching themes for Episode 105 of The Joy of Classical Music, just a bit of this and a bit of that, an eclectic mix of some of the music I’ve been enjoying and wanting to share with you. Ivor Cutler - Beautiful Cosmos Emily D’Angelo performs Freezing - Music Philip Glass, Words Suzanne Vega Allan Starrett - Berceuse Michael Habberman performs Kaikhosru Sorabji - Fantaisie Espagnole Carolyn Mills - Alkermes: I Alan Starrett - Romanza Ivor Cutler - Looking For Truth With A Pin. Peter McAleer - Funky Poly scherzo for orchestra

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