Hear more. Feel more. Be more! Come with me and dive into some great classical music. For over 1000 years great musicians have explored what it means to live, love, die and everything in between: asking all our deep and universal questions. Escape the cacophony - the noise of your brain and daily life; tune into the music, your feelings and emotions ‘good’ and ‘bad’ …and find the space, stillness and love that underpins everything. NB: May include loud noise, surprises, challenges, cacophonous racket May cause shock, comfort, discomfort, smiles, tears, peace, transcendence
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 1 day 5 hours 50 minutes
episode 153: 123. Emptiness and space: Sculthorpe: Kakadu
Heat, danger, emptiness and space. Plenty of all of this in Peter Sculthorpe's excellent Kakadu - inspired by northern Australia but featuring universal themes of humanity, life, death, and timelessness. Listening time c22 minutes (podcast 6', music...
episode 152: 122. The height of passion? Haydn, Symphony No.49
It's not about that sort of passion, but this symphony La Passione is intense, dark, thrilling, and one of Haydn's best! Listening time c30 minutes (podcast 5.5', music 23') Music here: on Youtube, live in concert with video, on Spotify or Apple Musi...
episode 151: 121. An unbearable lightness of being? Robert Schumann, Symphony no.4
One of my favourite joyful but heavyweight quick fixes, Robert Schumann's original Symphony no.4 is an intense and inventive stream of consciousness full of light and life. It's a thrill. Shame Schumann didn't see it that way... Listening time c35 mi...
episode 150: 120. A forgotten French flower: Bayon Louis, Overture ’Mayflower’
Another forgotten gem from a late 18th century woman composer, Marie Emmanuelle Bayon Louis's overture to d'Épine is boisterous and brilliant. You can listen to the piece here played by the excellent and stylish Academy of Ancient Music. Listening ti...
episode 149: 119. Dancing into Immortality: Prokofiev, Romeo & Juliet (Suite No.2)
So much more than just a famous TV theme tune, Prokofiev's music for Romeo and Juliet is full of intensity, drama, passion, wit and the occasional brilliantly pure dance number. Simultaneously draining and energising it's a fabulous demonstration of ...
episode 148: 118. Songs from the greatest ever musical! Bernstein: West Side Story
Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (Cacophony ep.117) features the driving funky rhythms at the expense of the wit, poetry and driving funky rhythms of the song numbers... so this episode features four of my favourites. Listening time ...
episode 147: 117. The greatest Musical? Bernstein: West Side Story, Symphonic Dances
I played this over a week ago and still the tunes dance around inside my head - it's the jazz- and latin-fuelled brilliance of the Symphonic Dances from Leonard Bernstein's smash hit musical, West Side Story - perhaps the greatest musical there is? L...
episode 146: 116. Uneasy listening. Scary music for modern times: Bartók, Music for strings, percussion and celesta
I'm no fan of horror films - too scary for me - but, in any case, nothing really scares us more than the thoughts in our heads! I do love scary music though and Béla Bartók wrote the best. Music for strings, percussion and celesta is unusual, grippin...
episode 145: 115. A superstar symphony, but not a miracle: Haydn, Symphony No.96
When Haydn came to London he was treated like a superstar: wined and dined by the great and good, and his concerts were the hottest ticket in town. The 'Miracle' Symphony, no.96, was Haydn's first written for Londoners and is designed to win us over ...
episode 144: 114. Direct to you from London: Urban Living, Shirley J Thompson
A mix of grit, swagger and persistence help us to make it through in the big city. Shirley Thompson's Urban Livinggives us all this plus, perhaps, a tinge of fear and some pheonmenal piano sounds in 7 minutes of [mainly] self-assured city beats. The ...