The Joy of Classical Music

This week, it’s a hour of music bridging Indigenous and Western musical traditions. There’s music from Brazil, Aotearoa, Australia and the United States and the featured work was inspired by the composers Wisconsin childhood in an Indigenous American community: Gloria Coates Indian Sounds - Symphony Number 5.

São Paulo Symphony Orchestra and Choir perform Heitor Villa-Lobos: Chôros No. 3

Hannah Darroch performs Helen Fisher - Te Tangi a te Matui

Aunty Delmae Barton and William Barton perform Dreamtime Duet

The Fort Smith Symphony performs Louis W. Ballard - Devil’s Promenade

Du Yun and Raven Chacon - Sweet Land: Scene 1 - Introduction featuring Raven Chacon and Du Yan.

Musica-viva-ensemble Dresden perform Gloria Coates - Indian Sounds (Symphony No.8)

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.

New Adventures in music is a series within a series about the thrill of musical discovery and the joy of listening and among the new albums featured in episode 8 is Infrastructure: The Songs of David Sisco, 55 from pianists Katia and Marielle Labeque and Milestones from Hugoi Ticiatti and the O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra. The featured work, a 3-movement choral work called Cycle of Peace, is from Tenebrae’s new album In between: Choral Works by Jessica Ulusoy-Horsley.

Pianist David Fung and Tenor David Sisco perform David Sisko - Where Memories Go to Die.

Burnt Reeds perform Amber Ferenz - From The Mountains to The Sea: A musical journey across North Carolina.

Katia Labèque performs Lili Boulanger - Trois Morceaux: I. D’un vieux jardin.

Marielle Labeque performs Lili Boulanger - Trois Morceaux: II. D’un jardin clair.

Katia and Marielle Labèque perform Fanny Mendelssohn - Vier Lieder ohne Worte, Op. 8: I. Allegro moderato


Hugo Ticciati and the O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra perform Igor Stravinsky - Suite de L’Histoire Du Soldat.

Tenebrae Choir perform Jessica Ulusoy-Horsley - Cycle of Peace.

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.

This week it’s three works by English composer Herbert Howells - Here is the Little Door, String Quartet No. 3 "In Gloucestershire”, and the episodes focus - Hymnus Paradisi. Music journalist Simon Heffer described Hymnus Paradisi as “one of the great works of the whole musical canon, and one that stakes a claim to be the finest piece ever written in the English choral tradition.”

Choir of King's College, Cambridge perform Herbert Howell - Here Is The Little Door

Divertimenti perform Herbert Howells - String Quartet No. 3 "In Gloucestershire”.

Heather Harper (soprano), Robert Tear (tenor), the Bach Choir with the King's College Chapel Choir and the New Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Sir David Willcocks perform Herbert Howells - Hymnus Paradisi.

A Taste of India

This weeks the music bridges the musical traditions of the Indian Sub-Continent and the West. There’s music from a 2023 album called You’ve Stolen My Heart: Songs From R D Burman’s Bollywood, 2 tracks from the pianist composer Michael Harrison’s recent Evening Light: Raga Cycles 1 album, and two works from Indian American composer Reena Esmail. The 100,000 selling TaReKiTa and an epic 2023 choral work called This Love Between Us “Prayers for Unity”.

Asha Bhosle and the Kronos Quartet perform R D Burman - Dum Maro Dum (Take Another Toke)

The Oxford Choir perform Reena Esmail - TaReKiTa

Michael Harrison and Ina Filip perform Water Jhala (Raga Yaman)

Michael Harrison and Ina Filip perform Mahadev (Raga Bhupali)

Asha Bhosle and the Kronos Quartet perform R D Burman - Nodir Paare Uttchhe Dhnoa (Smoke Rises Across The River)

Juilliard415 and the Yale Schola Cantorum perform Rena Esmail - This Love Between Us "Prayers for Unity"

New Adventures in music is mostly about new and recent releases and this weeks selections include two tracks from a 2023 album called Songs & Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog, 3 tracks from superstar pianist Hayato Sumino’s new album Chopin Orbit and a 4 movement work from Homegrown Melodies, the brand new album from reed quintet Burnt Reeds. From 2023 Sylvan Wind album Resonant Worlds, the featured work is a modern reimagining of the Cinderella story called Xenia and the Bishop by Serbian-American composer Aleksandra Vrebalov.

Ghost Train Orchestra and the Kronos Quartet perform Moondog - All Is Loneliness

Burnt Reeds perform Madison D. Bush - The Drive There and Back

Hayato Sumino - Larghetto

Hayato Sumino - Lydian Harp

Hayato Sumino - Raindrop Postlude

Ghost Train Orchestra and the Kronos Quartet perform Moondog - Coffee Beans

Mary Beth Peil and the Sylvan Winds perform Aleksandra Vrebalov - Xenia and the Bishop.

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.