The Joy of Classical Music

• The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 92 - The Pianists - 03-03-2025

  Episode 92 of the Joy of Classical Music is wall to wall piano and among the many delights is Kiwi pianist Richard Farrell, a celebrated international concert pianist who died in a car accident in1958 at the tender age of 31. The featured pianist is Chinese Kiwi Jain Liu with Douglas Lilburn’s 1949 work, Sonata. Daniel Trifonov plays Igor Stravinsky’s Serenade in A for Piano: I. Hymn Arthur Rubinstein plays Manuel De Falla’s Ritual Fire Dance Martha Argerich plays Chopin’s Scherzo No. 2 Anna Zassimova plays Nikolai Medtner’s Canzona Matinata Vladimir Horowitz plays Drammatico from Alexander Scriabin’s Piano Sonata No3 in F-Sharp Minor Richard Farrell plays Brahms - Klavierstucke Op. 119 No. 1 Jeremy Denk plays William Byrd’s A Voluntarie, for my Ladye Nevell Jian Liu plays Douglas Lilburn’s Sonata

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• The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 91 - Voices of Women - 24-02-2025

  Episode 91 of The Joy of Classical Music: The Voices of Women, features some of the 21st centuries leading sopranos and mezzo-sopranos performing a variety of works from a diverse selection of composers. Barbara Hannigan performs Alexander von Zemlinsky’s Empfangis Fatma Said performs Joaquín Nin’s Minué Cantado Lisette Oropesa performs Ernesto Lecuona’s Mulata Infeliz Barbara Hannigan performs Arnold Schoenberg’s Erwartung Emoke Baräth performs Claude Debussy’s Nuit d’étoiles Lisette Oropesa performs Gioachino Rossini’s Que Vais-je Devenir Rosa Feola performs Ottorino Respighi’s Quando Nasceste and Venitelo a Vedere Nadine Sierra performs Douglas Moore’s The Willow Song Barbara Hannigan performs Igor Stravinsky’s Three Little Songs Recollections of My Childhood, The Magpie, The Rook, The Jackdaw. J’Nai Bridges performs Carlos Simon’s Near the Cross Natalie Dessay performs Michel Legrand’s Between Yesterday and Tomorrow Barbara Hannigan performs John Zorn’s Liber Loagaeth Fatma Said performs Maurice Ravel’s Asie.

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• The Joy of Classical Music - Ep 90 - Kurt Weill - 17-02-25

  Episode 90 of the Joy of Classical music explores the work of one of the 20th centuries foremost musical innovators, Kurt Weill. “Kurt Weill was a great musical communicator. He had something to say and he said it in the most simple and direct terms, in the surface language of each country in which he lived, but also in the universal language of that world beyond worlds to which all human souls are related. Some people contend that when Kurt Weill worked in the vein of the popular theatre he became commercial. I contend instead that he became universal” - Langston Hughes Kurt Weill - Speak Low Kurt Weill - The Eternal Road, Act II Scene 20: The Heavenly Host Delivers the Commandments to Moses Kurt Weil - Kiddush Kurt Weill - ‘Jennie Waiting for Brack’ from Down in the Valley Kurt Weill - Klops-Lied Kurt Weill - The New Orpheus Kurt Weill - Propaganda Songs: 1. Song Of The Free Kurt Weill - Oil-Music Kurt Weill - Mack the Knife Kurt Weill - Street Scene, Ain't it Awful, the Heat? Kurt Weill - Lost in the Stars

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• The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 89 - Made in Aotearoa - 10-02-2025

  All the music in Episode 89 of the Joy of Classical Music was created in Aotearoa NZ and we open and close with glorious arrangements of two of the nations most treasured waiata, Pokarekare Ana and Pō Atarau. Jane Curry and Owen Moriarty - Pokarekare Ana David Farquhar - Prospero Dreaming Lyell Cresswell - Invocation Lyell Cresswell - Acquerello Victoria Kelly and Sam Hunt - Requiem Peter Pritchard - Bay of Islands David Hamilton - Willow David Hamilton - Karakia of the Stars Douglas Lilburn - A Birthday Offering Ron Goodwin and the NZ Symphony Orchestra - Po Atarau

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• The Joy of Classical Music - Ep 88 - Space is Boundless, It Squashes a Man's Ego - 03-02-25

  Episode 88 of The Joy of Classical Music is all about space, time and electronica and the featured work is Karl Birger Blomdhals 1959 2 act opera Aniara - An Epic of Space Flight in 2038 A.D. The earth is in ruins but a group of colonists escape. On the way to Mars they are knocked of course and are flung from the solar system. Existential crisis follows. Dimitri Shostakovich - Odna Jerry Goldsmith - Planet Of The Apes Edward Artemiev- Solaris Edward Artemiev - Stalker Hans Zimmer - Interstellar Jerry Goldsmith - Alien Jóhann Jóhannsson - Arrival Karl-Birger Blomdahl - Aniara: An Epic of Space Flight in 2038 A.D.

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