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
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Ep 124 - Guitar All Around the World
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
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Ep 123 - Music All Around the World
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
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Ep 122 - Music Inspired by Science Fiction Pt 3
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
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The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 121 - The Year 1962 - 18-09-2025
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
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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