The Joy of Classical Music

Last week’s episode featured two Jazz influenced classical works by Ukrainian Soviet composer Nicolai Kapustin. Energised by the joy and verve of his style, this week I’ve decided to dig a little deeper into his repertoire and devote a whole episode to his music.

Nikolai Kapustin performs Kapustin – Impromptu No.2.
Ludmil Angelov and Daniel Del Pino perform Nicolai Kapustin – Paraphrase on Dizzy Gillespie's Manteca.

Frank Dupree and Adrian Brendle perform Nicolai Kapustin – Sinfonietta for 4-Hand Piano.

Yuja Wang and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra perform Nicolai Kapustin – Piano Concerto No. 4.

Frank Dupree and the Württemberg Chamber Orchestra of Heilbronn perform Nikolai Kapustin – Chamber Symphony.

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 I’m broadcasting from the intersection of Classical and Jazz and on the menu is a selection of jazz influenced classical works and and a classically influenced jazz work - that would be the featured work, Duke Ellington’s Black, Brown and Beige. And then there’s something else altogether, a modern classical-jazz fusion reimagining of Miles Davis’s 1971 jazz- rock fusion work Sivad courtesy of composer, violinist Hugo Ticciati and the O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra.


Frank Dupree and the SWR Big Band perform Nikolai Kapustin - Toccata.

Benny Goodman and The Columbia Jazz Ensemble perform Igor Stravinsky - Ebony Concerto.

Marc-André Hamelin performs Nikolai Kapustin - Kapustin: 8 Concert Etudes.

Hugo Ticciati and the O/Modernt Chamber Orchestra perform Miles Davis - Sivad (Arr. for chamber orchestra by Gwilym Simcock).

Duke Ellington and his Orchestra perform Duke Ellington - Black, Brown And Beige.

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 I’m talking with English composer Andrew March. Winner of the inaugural Masterprize International Composing Competition in 1998, we’ll be listening a selection of works from his extensive compositional catalogue as well as that Masterprize winning work: Marine – à travers les arbres.

How Long Oh Lord.

Marine – à travers les arbres.

Amoration.

Elegy on Sudden Loss.

Eagle Wood.

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. This weeks new and releases include 2 songs from French tenor Cyrille Dubois new album So Poétique !, 3 selections from Doulas Moore’s opera Giants in the Earth, a track from the London Sinfonia’s new album Eden: The Music of Edward Picton-Turbervill and 3 tracks from a recent album by Australian pianist Stephen Hough called Postcards. There are 2 choral works by English composer Andrew March and the featured composition is David Sisco’s Patterns, a long form art-song about the often silent grief endured woman who had lost their loved ones to the First World War.

Cyrille Dubois and the Brussels Philharmonic perform Gabriel Fauré - 4 Mélodies, Op. 39: No. 4, Les roses d’Ispahan

Cyrille Dubois and the Brussels Philharmonic perform Charles Gounod - Ma belle amie est morte, CG 404

South Dakota Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform Douglas Moore - Giants in the Earth, Act I: No. 1, Prelude, Act I: No. 2, Not a thing in sight yet, far as I can see, Act I: No. 3, Good morning, good morning!

The Chapel Choir of Corpus Christi College perform Andrew March - Marian Antiphon No. 3

The Chapel Choir of Corpus Christi College perform Andrew March - Be Still and Know

London Choral Sinfonia and Katie Bray perform Edward Picton-Turbervill - Spell of Sleep

Stephen Hough performs Yu-Hsien - Spring Breeze Prelude

Stephen Hough performs Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman - Mary Poppins Suite: I. Chim chim cher-ee, 2. Feed the Birds and 3. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Pianist David Fung, Mezzo-Soprano Elizabeth Mondragon, and Baritone David Sisco perform David Sisco and Amy Lowell - Patterns.

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 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.