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The Joy of Classical Music

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The Joy of Classical Music - Ep 102 - The World Of Charles Ives - 12-05-25( 0:57:32)       
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In this episode of The Joy of Classical Music we visit with composer Charles Ives, his contemporaries, friends and those who were influenced by his work and uplifted by his encouragement and largesse. Leonard Bernstein talks about Charles Ives 1908 composition The Unanswered Question. Charles Ives - The Unanswered Question performed by the New York Philharmonia, conducted by Leonard Bernstein. Henry Cowell - The Trumpet of Angus Og. Sound engineer Mary Howard talks about recording Charles Ives in her New York recording studio. Charles Ives performs They Are There! Pianist John Kirkpatrick performs Charles Ives: Sonata No. 2 "Concord" - The Alcotts. Leonard Bernstein talks about Charles Ives, his art and influence. The New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein perform Charles Ives - Central Park in the Dark. Lou Harrison - At The Tomb Of Charles Ives. Elliot Carter - From A Mirror on Which to Dwell. Bernard Hermann talks Charles Ives and Carl Ruggles. Carl Ruggles - Angels. Charles Ives - The Cage.
Published: 12/05/2025 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music - Ep 101 - On the Theme of Transformation - Curated by ChatGPT - 05-05-25( 0:58:13)       
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Episode 101 of The Joy of Classical Music takes his cue from episode 100 where I used an algorithm to select the music, in that case YouTube’s algorithm, but in this episode were taking a step up with the much more sophisticated ChatGPT whose brief was the topic of Transformation. Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67: I. Allegro con brio Daniil Trifonov performs Bach: The Art Of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus Claude Debussy - La mer 1: From Dawn to Noon on the Sea Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake: Finale Igor Stravinsky - The Firebird: Finale Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 2: Finale. Pascal Rogé performs Erik Satie - Gnossienne No.1 Philip Glass – Glassworks (Opening) Vivaldi – The Four Seasons: Spring
Published: 5/05/2025 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 100 - Wherever The Wind May Take Me - 28-04-2025( 0:55:48)       
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An endless repository of treasure, YouTube has been an invaluable music discovery tool through the course of this series, so for episode 100 of The Joy of Classical Music, I decided to throw my fate to the winds and let YouTube's algorithm choose the music for me. The results are both surprising and pleasing. Michael Habermann plays Kaikhosru Sorabji’s piano transcription of Prelude to the Night, the first movement of Maurice Ravel’s Spanish Rhapsody. Kiri Te Kanawa with the St Paul’s Cathedral Choir performing JS Bach - Jesus, Joy of Man’s Desiring Hildegard of Bingen - Holy Spirit, The Quickener Of Life Jeremy Denk plays Aria from J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations Edward Elgar - Nimrod, the 9th movement from the Enigma Variations Tchaikovsky - Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker Suite Yo Yo Ma and Marlon Williams - Te Whakaroha Nui Brahms - Molto passionato, ma non troppo allegro, the second part of 2 Rhapsodies Sergei Rachmaninov. - Great Ektenia Kaikhosru Sorabji - The Poplars Arvo Part - Spiegel im Spiegel, for Viola & Piano
Published: 28/04/2025 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music - Ep 99 - It's All About Aotearoa - 21-04-25( 0:54:32)       
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I try and do an episode on the composers and musical artists Aotearoa at least once every ten or so episodes and here we are again and as usual, it’s a diverse and interesting cross-section that speaks to the deep talent that inhabits these far away lands. Briar Prastiti - White Red Black Briar Prastiti - Pegasus for Symphony Orchestra (available on Soundcloud) Oscar Natzka performs Tchaikovsky’s Pilgrims Song Igor Stravinsky conducts the National Symphony Orchestra of NZ - Finale from The Firebird Suite (1961) Alan Starrett - In Memory of One Who Wished to Forget (from 2023 album Anamneses - available on Bandcamp) NZ String Quartet performs Brahms String Quintet No. 2 in G Major (from the 2019 Naxos album Brahms String Quintets Numbers 1 and 2)
Published: 21/04/2025 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music - Ep 98 - Preludes, Overtures and Aria from Italian Opera - 14-04-25( 0:56:3)       
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In this episode of The Joy of Classical Music we are listening to preludes, overtures and arias from Italian Opera with a couple choruses and an intermezzo thrown in for good luck! Giacomo Puccini - Un bel dì vedremo from Madame Butterfly Giacomo Puccini - The Humming Chorus from Madame Butterfly Giuseppe Verdi - La Traviata - The Opening Prelude Giuseppe Verdi - La Traviata - Sempre libera Giacomo Puccini - Manon Lescaut - the intermezzo between Act 2 and 3 Claudio Monteverdi - Pur ti miro from The Coronation of Poppea Gaetano Donizetti - O my Fernand from La Favorite Ruggero Leoncavallo - The Bell Chorus from Pagliacci Vincenzo Bellini - Casta diva from Norma Gioachino Rossini - The Overture from William Tell
Published: 14/04/2025 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music - Ep 97 - A Return to Bernard Herrmann - 07-04-25( 0:57:57)       
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A radio show and podcast created and first aired at Free FM 89.0, a member of the Community Access Media In Episode 87 - The Language of Film Music Part 2, I touched on the work of lauded film composer Bernard Herrmann but it hardly did him justice so in this episode I am digging a little deeper and taking in some of his non-film work with the focus on 1941’s Symphony No. 1. Renee Fleming performs - I Have Dreamt, an aria from Bernard Herrmann’s 1951 opera Wuthering Heights Bernard Herrmann - Berceuse from Wuthering Heights. Bernard Herrmann - For the Fallen (1943) Bernard Herrmann - Symphony No. 1 (1941)
Published: 7/04/2025 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 96 - Nothing But Bartok - 31-03-2025( 0:56:12)       
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Episode 96 of The Joy of Classical Music is nothing but the legendary Hungarian composer and staunch anti-fascist Bela Bartok. While the focus is on his last great masterpiece, 1943’s Concerto for Orchestra, we have just enough time to fit in a few snippets of other works. Béla Bartók - 4 Slovak Folksongs for Mixed Choir (1917) Zoltán Kocsis plays Evening in Transylvania from Ten Easy Pieces. Bella Bartók - Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta, IV. Allegro molto - The Berlin Philharmonic Bela Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra conducted by Fritz Reiner Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1955.
Published: 31/03/2025 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 95 - The Outliers - 24-03-2025( 0:56:46)       
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This episode features music from composers whose work isn’t easily pigeonholed. The best description might be ‘genre fluid’ or ‘boundary defying’. On the menu is music by Moondog, Frank Zappa, Meredith Monk, Harry Partch, Joan La Barbara, Blue Gene Tyranny and La Monte Young. Moondog - High on a Rocky Ledge Frank Zappa - I Don't Know If I Can Go Through This Again Meredith Monk - Travel Dream Song Harry Partch - Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway Railing at Barstow, California. Joan La Barbara - Poems 43, 44, 45 Blue Gene Tyranny - 13 Detours Moondog - Single Foot La Monte Young - The Well Tuned Piano
Published: 24/03/2025 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 94 - Bits and Bobs 3 - 17-03-2025( 0:55:45)       
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Episode 94 of The Joy of Classical Music is a potpourri of bits and bobs, all manner of interesting works from the renaissance to the cutting edge of modernity. On the menu: The Swingle Singers performing Johann Sebastian Bach’s Fugue in D Minor Aaron Copland - Heart We Will Forget Him Edgard Varèse - Tuning Up Chico Marx - I’m Daffy over You Andrea Gabrieli - Jubilate Deo Stewart Greenbuam - Études for Daydreamers: IV. 7 or 8 to be in before 9 Peggy Glanville Hicks - Three Gymnopédies Alice Sara Ott performs John Field: Nocturne No. 9 in E Minor Harpo Marx - Lullaby Doll The Danish National Symphony Orchestra performs Angelo Badalamenti’s Twin Peaks Theme Nkeiru Okoye - African Sketches: IV. Drums Calling Nadine Sierra performs Floresta do Amazonas by Heitor Villa-Lobos Robert Muczynski - Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano
Published: 17/03/2025 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 93 - The Leftovers - 10-03-2025( 0:55:47)       
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Sometime I run out of time and don’t get to play everything I’ve selected for an episode so for this episode, we’ll be listening to the leftovers, music I wanted to play but couldn’t. Charles Ive’s Runaway Horse on Main Street performed by “The President's Own" U.S. Marine Band Richard Farrell plays Liszt Rigoletto Paraphrase. William Kapell plays Chopin’s Mazurka, Op. 6, No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor Kurt Weill - Four Walt Whitman Songs Gerald Finzi - Introit in F Major Barbara Hannigan performs Henri Dutilleux - Correspondances for Soprano And Orchestra
Published: 10/03/2025 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 92 - The Pianists - 03-03-2025( 0:57:19)       
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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
Published: 3/03/2025 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 91 - Voices of Women - 24-02-2025( 0:58:4)       
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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.
Published: 24/02/2025 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music - Ep 90 - Kurt Weill - 17-02-25( 0:58:14)       
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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
Published: 17/02/2025 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 89 - Made in Aotearoa - 10-02-2025( 0:57:7)       
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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
Published: 10/02/2025 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music - Ep 88 - Space is Boundless, It Squashes a Man's Ego - 03-02-25( 2:1:5)       
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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.
Published: 3/02/2025 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music - Ep 87 - The Language of Film Music Pt 2 - 27-01-25( 0:58:8)       
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Episode 87 of The Joy of Classical Music picks up where episode 86 left off. Film technology is evolving rapidly and so is the music. The romanticism that dominated the first 40 or so years of film scoring was being challenged by modernism. Klaatu's Speech - The Day the Earth Stood Still Bernard Hermann - The Day the Earth Stood Still Bernard Hermann - Vertigo Bernard Herrmann - Psycho Bernard Herrmann - Murder from Psycho John Williams - Jaws John Williams - Lost in Space John Williams - Star Wars John Williams - E T The Extra Terrestrial John Williams - Superman Hans Zimmer - Man of Steel Louis & Bebe Barron - Forbidden Planet Arthur Bliss - Things To Come
Published: 27/01/2025 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 86 - The Language of Film Music Pt 1 - 20-01-2025( 0:57:37)       
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A film score can set the mood for a scene, can provide cues to the viewer about what's going to happen and how the characters are feeling. A score can add depth of emotion, create urgency and indicate the setting while reflecting the cultural and thematic elements of the film's story but the choices in this episode are more than just compositions written in support of visual elements, the best scores that stand as works in their own right. Opening with a few words from Al Jolson in the first ‘talkie’, 1927s The Jazz Singer, episode 86 of The Joy of Classical Music dips into the first 40 years or so of film music. Al Jolson - the Jazz Singer 1927 Camille Saint-Saëns - The Assassination of the Duke of Guise 1908 Joseph Carl Breil - Birth of a Nation 1915 William Axt and David Mendoza - Don Juan 1926 Erich Korngold - The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938 Max Steiner - Now Voyager 1942 Max Steiner - Gone with the Wind 1939 Alfred Newman - The Song of Bernadette 1943 Alfred Newman - How Green Was My Valley 1941 Franz Waxman - The Bride of Frankenstein 1935
Published: 20/01/2025 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music - Ep 85 - A Bit of This and a Bit of That – 13-01-2025( 0:56:41)       
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There are no grand overarching themes in Episode 85 of The Joy of Classical Music, just a bit of this and a bit of that, a collection of pieces that had caught my interest and have been piling up in a folder patiently awaiting an airing. Wild UP - The Edge of Forever Scene 1: Procession of Scribes. "Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth" Wu Man with the The Kronos Quartet - The Round Sun and Crescent Moon Brad Mehldau and Renée Fleming - I Love the Dark Hours of My Being Fred Rzewski and Charles Dickens - Flowers Stuart Dempster - Conch Calling Elmer Bernstein - Theme from "To Kill a Mockingbird” Brian Daubney - Brendon Hill William Grant Still - Three Visions Reynaldo Hahn - A Chloris Arthur Bliss - Rout
Published: 13/01/2025 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 84 - All That Brass - 06-01-25( 0:57:45)       
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The Brass Band is a British innovation that dates from the early 19th century when brass instrumentation was undergoing a profound series of changes thanks to a slew of new innovations. This new generation of brass instruments caught on and by 1860 there were 750 brass bands in England alone and most were affiliated with the companies the players worked for. Factory and mine owners encouraged bands as a way to keep employees distracted from political issues like rights, terms, conditions and wages. Episode 84 of The Joy of Classical Music features a range of brass music, everything from the traditional to the cutting edge. Charles Ives - The Circus Band Arthur Bliss - Call to Adventure Imogen Holst - The Unfortunate Traveller Jack Bewley - Overture Jan Van der Roost - Fantasia Helvetica John Philip Sousa -The Stars and Stripes Forever William Byrd - Earl of Oxford's March Ralph Vaughan Williams - English Folk Song Suite: III. March Folk Songs from Somerset Charles Ives - Variations on "America" Peter York -The Shipbuilders (Suite for brass band)
Published: 6/01/2025 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 83 - The English Pastoral Pt 2 – 30-12-2024( 0:55:47)       
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Episode 83 of The Joy of Classical Music picks up where we left off with episode 82 - the English Pastoralists, except this time WW1 is in the mix. Seeking to create a uniquely English sound, the English Pastoralists were most active through the first four decades of the 20th century and many of these composers were inextricably caught in the disaster of the first world war. Some died, others were broken and those that survived often struggled with PTSD, using their music to examine the experience. Ralph Vaughn Williams - In Dreams George Butterworth - The Banks of Green Willow Arthur Bliss - Morning Heroes Frederick Septimus Kelly – Elegy (In memoriam Rupert Brooke) Michael Head - Over the Rim of the Moon: I. The Ships of Arcady Ivor Gurney - A Gloucestershire Rhapsody
Published: 30/12/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 82 – The English Pastoral Pt 1 - 23-12-2024( 0:57:54)       
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The English school of Pastoral Music was an informal movement of early 20th century English composers who were concerned with creating a uniquely English style of music. Less generous critics described it as the ‘cow pat school’ or the music of ‘buttercups and hedgerows, nevertheless it has produced some of the most iconic music in the English classical repertoire. In this this episode we are listening to music from some of the composers most identified with the tradition, Harold Darke, Vaughn Williams, Gustav Holst and Frank Bridges. Harold Darke - In the Bleak Midwinter Harold Darke - Fantasy in E Major Vaughan Williams - English Folk Song Suite: 3. March: Folk Songs from Somerset Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending Gustav Holst - Morris Dance Tunes: Trunkles Gustav Holst - In the Bleak Midwinter Gustav Holst - Somerset Rhapsody Frank Bridge - 3 Sketches.
Published: 23/12/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 81 - Curated by Gabriel Vicens - 16-12-2024( 0:58:14)       
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We featured New York based Puerto Rican composer Gabriel Vicens in a special spot that sat between episodes 43 and 44. He returns to curate this episode. “I’ve curated a selection of pieces that explore approaches concerned with repetition, dissonance, stillness, space, and introspection. I’m interested in how we experience the flow of time when listening to music and how silence or perhaps quietness creates intimacy, evoking thoughts, memories, and emotions”. Maurice Ravel - Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55: II. Le Gibet Claude Debussy - Preludes/Book 1, L. 117: 6. Des pas sur la neige Arnold Schoenberg - 6 Kleine Klavierstücke Op. 19 Anton Webern - Three Pieces for Cello and Piano, Op. 11 Galina Ustvolskaya - Trio For Clarinet, Violin And Piano: 2. Dolce John Cage - Two2: No. 2, 1'55.635 and No. 4, 5'23 György Kurtag - Játékok VI, 50-51, In memoriam András Mihály Harold Budd - Veil of Orpheus Peter Garland - Nostalgia for the Southern Cross Morton Feldman - Palais de Mari
Published: 16/12/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 80 - The Saxophone - 09-12-24( 0:57:12)       
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As a child Antoine-Joseph Sax was so accident prone that his mother predicted an early death. She was wrong, he made it to age 80 having survived among other things, an assassination attempt by a jealous rival. As for his invention, it was much mocked upon it’s release…… the rest is history. This episode of The Joy of Classical Music is all about the saxophone and most of the music you’ll be hearing comes from France and Belgium, the first territories to fully embrace the potential of this first reed driven brass instrument. Jean-Michel Damase - Vacances Jean-Baptiste Singelée - Premier Quatuor: I. Andate Alain Crepin - Sax in the City Henri Tomasi - Ballade Moondog & The London Saxophonic - Bird's Lament H. Villa-Lobos - Fantasia for Sax Soprano Robert Clerisse - Sérénade Variée Paul Creston - Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano
Published: 9/12/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music - Ep 79 - The Polynesian Triangle – 02-12-2024( 0:58:14)       
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Some 2000 years BCE, a group of explorers left the island now known as Taiwan and began one of histories most technically challenging migrations. By the time European explorers stumbled across them, the Polynesian people as they would become known, had explored and settled the sparse 300,000 square km of land sitting in the vast 36 million square km of the Southern Pacific Ocean. This episode is an idiosyncratic exploration of the sounds of the Polynesian Triangle. Imenetuki Mangaia (Cook Islands). Traditional Music of the South Pacific - Recordings by David Fanshawe Mahani Teave plays Chopin’s Barcarolle in F sharp, Op. 60 Brigham Young University Men’s Chorus - Tahiti Sarah Vaughn - Bali Ha’i Tralala Song (Fiji) - Traditional Music of the South Pacific - Recordings by David Fanshawe Poulima Salima - Aleluia, ua toe tu mai! Choir Of Western Samoa Teachers' Training College, Apia - Fa'afetai I Le Atua Leilehua Lanzilotti - On Stochastic Wave Behavior: Part 4 Nalukai Pene Pati sings Puccini’s Nessun Dorma Mahani Teave - I he- a Hotumatu Ia, in E-Flat Douglas Lillburn - Aotearoa Overture. Queen Lili`uokalani - Ku’u Pua i Paoakalani.
Published: 2/12/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music - Ep 78 - The Evil Contemporary - 25-11-24( 0:54:49)       
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There a whole genre on YouTube arguing against contemporary art music and it seems like you could scroll forever and not run out of people telling you how bad it is and why you shouldn’t be listening to it. They are misguided. Tom Waits reads Charles Bukowski’s poem The Laughing Heart Jake Runestad - Nyon, Nyon Erkia Haase plays No.7 and No.2 from György Ligeti’s Music Ricercata. Unsuk Chan - Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" from 'Alice in Wonderland David Lang - Press Release Karl-Birger Blomdahl - The Yurg, The Mimarobe Gavin Bryars - Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Published: 27/11/2024 8:30:00 a.m.
The Joy of Classical Music - Ep 77 – The 1930s - 15-11-2024( 0:57:54)       
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Episode 77 explores the 1930s and on the way you’ll hear the voices of FDR, Michael Joseph Savage, Groucho Marx, Winston Churchill, W C Fields among others. 1938 Kurt Weill - September Song 1930 Ruth Crawford Seeger - Three Chants Part 1: To An Unkind God 1933 George Gershwin - Variations on I got Rhythm for Piano and Orchestra 1934 Dimitri Shostakovich - Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Op. 29, Act 1 Scene 1: "Akh, nye Spitsa Bol’she 1934 Kurt Weill - I am Waiting for a Ship 1938 Arnold Schoenberg - Violin Concerto, Op. 36 - I. Poco Allegro 1939 Jānis Ivanovs - Varavīksne
Published: 18/11/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 76 - Young Composers – 11-11-2024( 0:52:44)       
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The Joy of Classical Music Episode 76 - Young Composers All the music in episode 76 of The Joy Of Classical Music is by young composers and by young I was going for under 30 but 40 offered a little more scope. Ahead is an hour of exciting, challenging, warm, hopeful, funny and joyous music. New Calliope Singers - Corinna's going a-maying Andy Akiho - Hammers Héloïse Werner - Lullaby For A Sister Bethan Morgan-Williams - Parti Di-ffiniau Robert Anton Strobel - At Peace from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Robert Anton Strobel - Chapter for Opening the Mouth from Spells for the Afterlife Jack Bewley - Mr Speaker Michael H. J. van der Sloot - Ricercar Sai Natarajan - We Yearn to Tell Stories
Published: 11/11/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 75 - 04-11-2024( 0:57:33)       
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Episode 75 of the Joy of Classical Music picks up where I left off with Episode 71, visiting with some of my favourite composers from the first 70 episodes and as with episode 71, I’m throwing caution to the wind and playing pieces of music that I’ve never heard before. Johnny Greenwood, The Phantom Thread Score - Sandlewood 1 Vaughan Williams - 5 Mystical Songs: No. 1, Easter Lou Harrison - Suite for Symphonic Strings: 2. Chorale - Et in Arcadio Ego Heitor Villa-Lobos - Melodia Sentimental Federico Mompou - Impresiones Intimas Charles Ives - Son of a Gambolier Nikolai Medter Forgotten Melodies - Danza Festiva Florence Price - Adoration Lili Boulanger - Le Retour Franz Schreker The Infants Birthday - Dance, The Marionettes. Douglas Lilburn - Four Canzonas for String Orchestra
Published: 4/11/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 74 - 28-10-2024( 0:58:13)       
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Episode 74 - The Music of Beauty, Joy, Love and Connection This episode of the Joy of Classical Music takes its inspiration from composer Robert Strobel: “I write unabashedly beautiful music. My goal is to create emotionally fulfilling works that heal people. I hope that my listeners can take a break from the cynicism of the world and find peace”. https://www.robertantonstrobel.com/ And with that in mind, welcome to an hour of beauty, joy, love and connection. Jane Kenyon - Let Evening Come Robert Strobel - FromThe Velveteen Rabbit: To Be Loved followed by Broken Morning, Vaughan Williams - The Sprig of Thyme and the Lark in the Morning. Rena Esmail - We Are Love Sir Edward Elgar - In Moonlight Howard Skempton - Rise Up, My Love Karen Tanaka - Enchanted Forest John Chen plays Maurice Ravels Jeux d’eau John Ritchie - The Snow Goose
Published: 28/10/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music - Ep 73 – 21-10-2024( 0:58:9)       
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This episode of Joy Of Classical Music is all about the music of Ideology, Imperialism, Politics, Protest and Agitation. The Swingle Singers - Ode to Joy John Psathas - Noam (Part 2 of Infinite Mind for Marimba and Tape). Marta Kubišová - Prayer for Marta Luigi Nono - Intolerance 1960. Introductory chorus Alive Is He Who Stays Awake followed by Part 1 Scene 1 For Years I Have Been Consumed By The Longing To Return To My Homeland Cornelius Cardew - Smash the Social Contract Li Youyuan - The East Is Red Thomas Arne - Rule Britannia Frederic Rzewski -The People United Will Never Be Defeated Ethel Smyth - March Of The Women Giuseppe Verdi - Hymn of the Nations
Published: 21/10/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 72 - 14-10-2024( 0:57:5)       
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The music selection for this episode tells a particular story about Aotearoa New Zealand, one that examines our sky, air, sea, farms, forests and our penchant for the oddball and quirky. Dennis Glover’s poem The Magpies adapted for music by Douglas Lilburn Teddy Tahu Rhodes performs Hoea Ra The New Zealand Youth Choir perform David Hamilton’s The Moon Is Silently Singing. James K Baxter reads his poem Rocket Show Pianist Jian Liu performs Jenny McLeod’s Mysterious Whirly Square Dance The Ruth Dallas poem Milking Before Dawn adapted for music by Anthony Ritchie Christopher Blake - We All Fall Down Basso Profundo Oscar Natzke performs The Drinking Song Pianist Michael Houston plays Kenneth Young’s Dancing Alone Alice Forrester McKay - The Bush Song James K. Baxter’s The Seagull read by Mrs Littlefair Gareth Farr - Shadow of the Hawk Ariana Tikao - Nau Mai E Kā Hua
Published: 14/10/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 71 - 08-10-2024( 0:56:42)       
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What music is worthy and what is unworthy and can we even make those distinctions? At the end of the day everything boils down to subjectivity, we like what we like because it affects us in some way and this episode is a self-indulgent exploration of some of the composers whose music has affected me through the course of this series but rather than play familiar I’ve decided on adventure, selecting pieces I’ve never heard before. Aaron Copeland - I Bought Me a Cat Ina Boyle - Phantasy for Violin and Chamber Orchestra Harry Partch - The Street Lyell Cresswell - Salm Nicolas Slonimsky - Utica Sheets and Pillowcases Arthur Rubinstein plays Manuel De Falla’s Ritual Fire Dance Frank Zappa - Sad Jane, First Movement John Psathas - Kyoto Laura Strickling performs Juhi Bansal’s Not Quite The Stars Caroline Shaw and So Percussion - Some Bright Morning
Published: 7/10/2024 9:30:00 a.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 70 - 30-09-2024( 0:58:13)       
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This episode is a journey across the Americas – starting on the Amazon river where we examine the psychological states it conjures in those who dare traverse its waters. Daniel Catan – Act 1 Scene 1 from his opera Florencia in the Amazon Eunice Katunda – Chorinho Silvestre Revueltas. – Sensemaya Sergio Barroso – Yantra 6 Ensemble Elyma perform Hanacpachap cussicuinin from the album Nuevo Mundo – 17th-Century Music in Latin America Hector Villa-Lobos – Concerto for Harp and Orchestra
Published: 30/09/2024 9:00:00 a.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 69 – 23-09-2024( 0:58:39)       
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The music in this episode strides across the mystical culminating in Larry Austin’s version of Charles Ives unfinished Universe Symphony. Philip Glass – City and Dance from his opera Akhnaten. Latvian Radio Choir performs Mūža aina by Pēteris Plakidis The Crossing Choir performs- A Native Hill No12 At Peace by Gavin Bryars Larry Austin recreates Charles Ives’ Universe Symphony Number 6
Published: 23/09/2024 10:00:00 a.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 68 - 16-09-2024( 0:57:33)       
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This week we fly with a flock of birds and stand on the walls of Troy while watching it burn. And there’s more – much more. Errollyn Wallen – Peace on Earth Kinetic Ensemble plays Paul Novak’s – A String Quartet is like a Flock of Birds Michael Houston plays JettaturaPresence by John Psathas Samuel Barber – Andromache's Farewell. Edwin Carr – Piano Concerto Number 1
Published: 16/09/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 67 - 09-09-2024( 0:57:24)       
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This week its all about the contemporary featuring mostly young and upcoming composers with a special emphasis on folk opera The Way Fourth by Rachel Grimes. Rachael Grimes – The Hysterical Society from Folk Opera The Way Forth Shara Nova performs Pain Changes from Said Lang’s 2013 album Death Speaks Bora Yoon – Doppler Dreams from her 2013 album Sunken Cathedral Bryce Dessner – Young Emily from his 2013 work Murder Ballades Phenola Merrivale – Desdemona from her 2022 album Tus Rachel Grimes – Patsy from The Way Forth William Brittelle – Hey Panda from his album Mohair Timewarp Steve Reich – 2x5
Published: 9/09/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 66 - 02-09-2024( 0:56:16)       
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This episode is all about Spain with a special focus on the Zarzuela, a uniquely Spanish musical form that incorporates operatic arias, popular songs and dance. From composer Pablo Sorozabal it’s Goodbye to Bohemia from his Zarzuela Don Manolito then from The Tavern By The Port is his most famous Zarzuela song No Puede Ser, performed by Placido Domingo. Pedro Iturralde – Pequeña Czarda for Saxophone and Piano Eugenia Osterberger – Adiós, Galicia Zulema de la Cruz – Hill of the Sun Antonio Soler – Sonato in D-Minor Manuel de Falla – Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Published: 2/09/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 65 - 26-08-2024( 0:55:37)       
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This episode is mostly about the voice. There is Lieder song, contemporary choral music and art song with the Theme from 1961 film King of Kings and two unusual piano pieces to mix things up. Caroline Shaw performing Firmament from the Blue Hour Room Full of Teeth performing Mizzie Mazolis Vesper Sparrow Film Score Composer Miklos Rozsa's Theme from 1961 film King of Kings Robert Schumann - The Wonderful Month of May from A Poets Love Song Cycle Karlheinz Stockhausen - Invisible Choirs from his Opera Thursday of Light Tango composer Ángel Villoldo - El Choclo Conspirare Choir perform Jake Runestad’s Wild Forces Frederic Mompou - Piano Variations on a theme of Chopin
Published: 26/08/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 64 - 19-08-2024( 0:57:48)       
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From the NZ bush to the depths of Space, from classical era German romanticism to duelling Gauchos on a South America ranch - this week's episode covers a lot of ground! Mopoke - an art song about the NZ native owl by Alfred Hill The Boston Pops Orchestra performs the Main Title from 1977 film Star Wars from the score by John Williams Tōru Takemitsu - Small Sky Pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason performs Clara Schumann’s Scherzo No. 2 in C minor, Op. 14 Linas Paulaukis - Is It Like This In The World Alberto Ginastera - Four Dances from Estancia
Published: 19/08/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 63 - 12-08-2024( 0:56:31)       
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Taking my cue from The Blue Hour, a song cycle that explores the space between life and death, this week's selections take us to those places that sit somewhere between dream and reality. Peggie Granville Hicks - Come Sleep, Come Sleep Ryuichi Sakamoto - The Theme from 1983 film Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence From the 'Blue Hour Song Cycle', Shara Nova and A Far Cry Chamber Orchestra perform Angelica Negrón’s 'A Black Map' Domenico Cimarosa - Sonata Number One performed by pianist Roberte Mamou Soprano Ruby Hughes performs The Chain of Flames from Rhian Samuel’s Clytemnestra Leopold Godowsky’s Meditation performed by pianist Konstantin Scherbakov From 1943 film Henry V - The Tenebrae Choir perform William Waltons Touch her Soft Lips Elena Kats-Chernin - Butterflying Antun Tomislav Šaban - Balada Josef Matthias Hauer - Concerto For Violin and Orchestra
Published: 12/08/2024 12:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 62 - 05-08-2024( 0:58:13)       
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Episode 62 of the Joy Of Classical Music explores the emotional and physical landscape of the heart and mind. Lora Fisher singing Broken Morning from Louis Andriessen’s 2018 song cycle The Only One Constance Lambert - The Suite from film 1948 Karenina Constant Lambert - The Rio Grande Alexander Scriabin: Preparation for the Final Mystery - Part 1 - Universe Gavin Bryars - A Native Hill Samuel Barber - Agnus Dei Ralph Vaughan Williams - English Folk Song Suite
Published: 5/08/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 61 – 29-07-2024( 0:59:52)       
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This episode is all about the piano and features pianists Glenn Gould, Arthur Rubinstein, Vladimir Horowitz and Jacob Adler. Horowitz palys Schubert, Rubinstein talks about the art of the pianist before playing Liszt, Gould tackles Webern and we finish with Adler playing English/Parsi composer Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji’s most famous work, the complex and wondrous Gulistān.
Published: 29/07/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy Of Classical Music Ep 60 - 08-07-2024( 0:57:59)       
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We kick off Episode 60 with Anna Netrebko and Elīna Garanča Mira performing Mira O Norma Si, Fino All'ore Estreme from Vincenzo Bellini’s 1835 opera Norma. Also: English Composer Ralph Vaughn Williams Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera English Composer Henry Purcell American Composer Samuel Barber French Composer Arthur Honegger American Composer Moondog Spanish Composer Joaquin Rodrigo
Published: 8/07/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 59 – 01-07-2024( 0:54:54)       
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This week it’s all about the voice. We feature choral works, arias and art songs starting with Marie Sophie Pollak and the Ensemble Concerto Munich performing G F Handel’s Eternal Source of Divine Light. Also: Wings by Japanese Composer Toru Takemitsu Four Short Songs by Canadian composer, conductor, writer, pianist and teacher John Beckwith Finnish Composer Einojuhani Rautavaara’s The Singer American composer John Cage’s Four 2 Italian composer Francesco Cavalli’s aria O Luci Belle Indian American composer Reena Esmail’s This is the Love Between Us The aria This Is Prophetic from American Composer John Adams’s opera Nixon in China Kyrie and Gloria from Polish British Composer Roxanna Panufnik’s Westminster Mass Sicilian American Paul Creston’s Nocturne for Soprano and Chamber Orchestra.
Published: 1/07/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 58 - 24-06-2024( 0:56:48)       
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Published: 24/06/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 57 - 17-06-2024( 0:54:34)       
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This week we open with Egyptian soprano Fatma Said singing Kan Agmal Yom from her album A Tribute to Mohamed Abdelwahabth, a prominent 20th-century Egyptian singer, actor, and composer Also: American film score composer Jerome Moross Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo English Composer Arnold Bax American Jazz Age composer John Alden Carpenters Chinese/American Composer Tan Dun
Published: 17/06/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 56 - 10-06-2024( 0:58:10)       
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This is the third and final of our three episodes exploring the work of New Zealand composers and performers and we open with Dame Kiri Te Kanata performing PoKarekare Ana from her 1999 album Maori Songs. Also: Pianist Margaret Neilson playing Rangatiki born composer Douglas Lilburn Dunedin based Composer Anthony Ritchie Waikato based Composer Michael F Williams New Zealand’s first professional composer Alfred Hill Hamilton born composer Dame Gillian Whitehead Kiwi Pianist Michael Houston playing Chinese composer and educator Gao Ping’s (formerly of the University of Waikato) Dance Fury, an homage to Astor Piazzolla, the master of Tango. Wellington based Greek/New Zealander John Psathas
Published: 10/06/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 55 - 03-06-2024( 0:58:28)       
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This is the second part of our three-part exploration of the music of Aotearoa/ New Zealand and today we open with one time Ngaruawahia resident and basso profundo Inia Te Wiata singing Te Range Pai’s Hine E Hine from his 1961 album Home Little Māori Home. Also: Auckland Composer Eve De Castro Robinson Wellington Composer Jenny McLeod Auckland Composer Edwin Carr Te Awamutu born Composer Tim Finn with Wellington Composer Tom McCloud Amberley born Composer Ross Harris
Published: 3/06/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 54 - 27-05-2024( 0:57:31)       
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We open today's episode with a track from Te Awamutu born Basso profundo Oscar Natzka album The Great Recordings 1931-50. At age 26 he was the youngest bass ever to sing a principal’s role at The Royal Opera House in London’s Covent Garden but his career was to be short lived.At age 39 he collapsed on stage in New York dying two weeks later. For the next three weeks it’s all about Aotearoa/New Zealand. Featured: Taranaki born composer Larry Pruden Percussionist, Composer and Drag artist Gareth Farr Dunedin born Composer Dorothy Freed Christchurch born Composer and Violinist Salina Fisher Cambridge born Composer David Farquhar
Published: 27/05/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 53 - 20-05-2024( 0:58:28)       
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Published: 20/05/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 52 - 13-05-2024( 0:58:4)       
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This week we open with Uncle Sam’s Farm: The Prologue – Parts 1 And 2 from Missy Mazzoli's 2018 opera Proving Up. Also Featured: American film score composer Alfred Newman Spanish composer Fransisco Valls African/American composer William Grant Still
Published: 13/05/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 51 - 06-05-2024( 0:58:28)       
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This week's episode opens with the aria Is That You My Love from David Hertzberg’s opera The Wake World, which is based on a story by infamous occultist Alistair Crowleys. Wake World was voted Best Opera of 2018 by the Music Critics Association of North America. Also featured: German composer Gottfried Huppertz Japanese Composer Takashi Yoshimatsu New York composer Missy Mazzoli. Mexican composer Arturo Marquez American composer Kurt Weill
Published: 6/05/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – 29-04-2024( 0:55:27)       
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This is the final part of our brief exploration of music inspired by artists and their paintings and that was the aria I Go, I Go To Him from Igor Stravinsky’s opera The Rake's Progress. Stravinsky’s opera is based on a series of eight paintings by English artist William Hogarth which depict the decline and fall of Tom Rakewell, the spendthrift son of a rich merchant. Also: British composer Harrison Birtwistle’s Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum was inspired by Swiss artist Paul Klee's 1922 water colour Twittering Machine Russian/American composer Alla Pavlova, was so moved at the sight of Vincent’s Starry Night that she wrote a four part symphony called Vincent in homage
Published: 29/04/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 49 - 22-04-2024( 0:57:5)       
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This is part two of our brief and fragmentary exploration of music inspired by artists and their paintings and we open with the aria That was You Know I Want To Help You from composer Bernard Rand's 2010 opera Vincent. Also featured: Hungarian composer Sandor Veress was so taken by the work of Swiss artist Paul Klee that he wrote a seven part suite called Homage to Paul Klee to express his admiration. In his 1990 opera Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara took scenes from the life of Vincent van Gogh starting in the mental hospital at Saint-Rémy, where he painted The Starry Night. The story moves back and forth in time through his memories Rautavaara took material from this opera to create his Sixth Symphony, Vincentiana.
Published: 22/04/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 48 - 15-04-2024( 0:58:28)       
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The next three episodes are all about music inspired by artists and their paintings and we start with composer Michael Gordon’s Vincent Van Gogh’s Video Opera. From 1991 this opera is based on letters written by the Dutch master. Also: Claude Debussy's composition The Sea was inspired by Katsushika Hokusai’s masterpiece The Great Wave Off Kanagawa. German composer Max Reger wrote four symphonic poems based on works of Swiss artist Arnold Böcklin. The Play of the Waves pays homage to Bocklin’s painting Playing in the Waves. French composer Henri Dutilleux wrote The Starry Night in 1978 as a response to Van Gogh’s painting which he described as ‘an enormously powerful and disturbing masterpiece.”
Published: 15/04/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 47 - 08-04-2024( 0:58:31)       
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This week it’s all about France and we begin with the aria Farewell, Pastourelles from Maurice Ravel's children’s fantasy opera The Child And The Spells. Also featured: Georges Auric Guillaume de Machaut Gabriel Fauré André Jolivet Olivier Messiaen Melanie Bonis
Published: 8/04/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 46 – 01-04-2024( 0:55:39)       
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In the final part of our three-part exploration of the American 20th century we play the music of: George and Ira Gershwin Arnold Schoenberg Leonard Bernstein Harry Partch Samuel Barber John Alden Carpenter
Published: 1/04/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 46 - 01-04-2024( 0:55:39)       
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Published: 31/03/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 45 - 25-03-2024( 0:58:28)       
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Across the course of the American 20th century composers revelled in the possibilities offered by modernity. They explored the landscape, the social milieu, the machines and engines, factories and cities, the chaos, the calm and the uncertainty. They explored the potential of electricity, examined the musical traditions of non-Western cultures pushing out the boundaries of formal art music while reshaping the entirety of its potential. In Part two of our exploration of the American century we play the music of: Scott Joplin Aaron Copland Lou Harrison Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofé
Published: 25/03/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 44 - 18-03-2024( 0:58:28)       
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Across the course of the 20th century America became the world’s economic and cultural powerhouse and little happened without something of America being involved, classical music included. With that in mind for the next three episodes we are celebrating the music of the American 20th century. Todays episode features: Gian Carlo Menotti Ellen Zwilich Virgil Thomson Joseph Schwantner George Crumb
Published: 18/03/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music - Special – 11-03-2024( 0:58:27)       
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In this Joy Of Classical Music Special Puerto-Rican born New York based composer, guitarist and visual artist Gabriel Vicens talks about his new album Mural. All Gabriels work including Mural is available on Bandcamp. Just type his name into the Bandcamp search engine and it will take you right to his site. Otherwise Mural can be purchased via Stradivarius Records online. Featured Music: 1. The Way We Are Created 2. Mural 3. El Matorral 4. Carnal 6:25
Published: 11/03/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music- Ep 43 – 04-03-2024( 0:58:28)       
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This week's episode opens with the aria Now Grasp Your Daughter from Lou Harrison's 1970 opera Young Caesar. An exploration of the early life of the great Roman Emperor with a particular focus on his love affair with King Nicomedes IV of Bithynia, the unabashed theme of gay love was deeply controversial for the time and the opera, though highly acclaimed, struggled to find its feet. Also on the menu: Dutch Recordist Lucie Horsch Chinese American composer Tan Dun Catalonian composer Roberto Gerhard Estonian composer Eduard Tubin
Published: 4/03/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 42 - 26-02-2024( 0:58:28)       
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This episode is all about China and to quote Chinese American pianist and academic Hao Huang: “Western classical music wasn’t introduced to the Chinese public until Christian missionaries came in the 19th century, but it quickly gained popularity and prestige as a symbol of the Western “culture of scientific progress and modernisation.” The rigours of classical training fit the Confucian value of self-cultivation through self-discipline. Confucius believed that the study of music was “an indispensable way to train the mind,” and considered it more important than mathematics and writing. Hau Huang goes on to note that 36 million Chinese children are currently studying Western classical music traditions, that’s 6 times the number of American children and wonders if the future of Western Classical music might just be in the hands of Asian musicians. Featured Composers: Xian Xinghai Zhou Long Tan Dun Qigang Chen Zhu Jian
Published: 26/02/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 41 - 19-02-2024( 0:58:28)       
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This week we play music from composers who died in Nazi death camps. Hans Krasa – murdered in the gas chambers at Auschwitz Gideon Klein – executed by Nazi soldiers trying to erase evidence from advancing Allied forces. Ilse Weber – murdered alongside with her young son Tommy in the gas chambers at Auschwitz Mordechai Gebirtig – executed in the Krakow ghetto for the crime of being Jewish Pavel Hass – murdered in the gas chambers at Auschwitz Viktor Ullmann – murdered in the gas chambers at Auschwitz Erwin Schulhoff – died of tuberculosis at Wülzburg prison while awaiting transportation to a death camp. To quote Viktor Ullman on his internment: “By no means did we sit weeping on the banks of the waters of Babylon. Our endeavour with respect to the arts was commensurate with our will to live.”
Published: 19/02/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 40 – 12-02-2024( 0:57:34)       
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This week we begin with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and soprano Jane Sheldon performing Eliza’s Aria from the Wild Swans Ballet Suite by Soviet born Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin. Then it's A Love Song from composer and accordion specialist Pauline Oliveros, Irwin Swack's violin concerto Waters of Memory, two piano sonatas inspired by popular music styles from Kiwi composer Jenny McLeod, a 75th birthday tribute to Stephen Hawking, a famous children's song by Japanese composer Kōsaku Yamada and an excerpt from Franz Sheker’s popular 1912 opera A Distant Sound, the story of a musician who sacrifices his happiness as he pursues the mystery of the beguiling sound in his head.
Published: 12/02/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 39 - 05-02-2024( 0:58:22)       
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Today we open with the aria News Has a Kind of Mystery from the opera Nixon in China by John Luthor Adams, before visiting Franz Shrecker's glorious 1900 composition Intermezzo for String Orchestra, Op. 8. A victim of nazi persecution Shrecker's work was almost lost, but not quite. We feature a little something from one of the world's most popular composers, Estonian composer Arvo Part and a snippet from Mica Levi's score for the 2014 sci-fi film Under the Skin. Also on the menu is composer, gay activist, record salesperson, music critic, firefighter, florist, nurse and painter Lou Harrison, and Pulitzer Prize winners Charles Ives and Jennifer Higdon, whose stunning Southern Harmony explores the melodies of the American south.
Published: 5/02/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 38 - 29-01-2024( 0:58:28)       
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We open with the aria News Has a Kind of Mystery from the opera Nixon in China by John Luthor Adams before visiting Franz Shrecker's glorious 1900 composition Intermezzo for String Orchestra, Op. 8. A victim of nazi persecution Shrecker's work was almost lost, but not quite. We feature a little something from one of the world's most popular composers, Estonian composer Arvo Part and a snippet from Mica Levi's score for the 2014 sci-fi film Under the Skin. Also on the menu is composer, gay activist, record salesperson, music critic, firefighter, florist, nurse and painter Lou Harrison, and Pulitzer Prize winners Charles Ives and Jennifer Higdon, whose stunning Southern Harmony explores the melodies of the American south.
Published: 29/01/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 37 - 19-01-2024( 0:57:56)       
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Published: 22/01/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy Of Classical Music Ep 36 - 15-01-2024( 0:58:9)       
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Today we open with an Aria from Aaron Copland’s 1954 opera The Tender Land, we listen to the theme from the highest grossing Hollywood film of 1959, there's a song from English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, a visit to the Mothership with the world's second most performed composer, there's some romance for violin and piano from the first American woman to compose a full symphony and an adaptation of dada gibberish by Finnish conductor/composer Essa Pekka Salonen.
Published: 15/01/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 35 – 08-01-2024( 0:54:57)       
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We kick off this week's episode with a glorious aria from Japanese composer Ikuma Dan’s opera Twilight Heron before diving deep into an eclectic mix that includes Russian composer Shostikovich, Canadian composer Linda Catlin Smith, some Hungarian folk arrangements courtesy of Bella Bartok and a little something from Austrian/American composer Arnold Schoenberg, whose innovations altered the course of 20th century music.
Published: 8/01/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 34 - 01-01-2024( 0:54:21)       
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Today's episode is all about the legendary American avant-garde composer John Cage. We listen to his music and music from those friends, pupils and associates he inspired. To quote the man himself: "I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
Published: 1/01/2024 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 33 - 25-12-2023( 0:55:9)       
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Today's focus is on German composer Hans Werner Henze and his symphony No.3 but not before we touch base with Caroline Shaw, an aria from French opera Louise, NZ pianist Michael Houstoun and a Japanese saxophonist colloquially known as Mr Fuzzy Bird.
Published: 25/12/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy Of Classical Music Ep 32 - 18-12-2023( 0:58:12)       
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This week we are listening to the music of two extraordinary composers - Lili Boulanger and Vítězslava Kaprálová. Both died aged 25 but not before they gifted the world an extraordinary body of work.
Published: 18/12/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 31 – 11-12-2023( 0:58:14)       
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This week we open with an aria from The Bartered Bride, a comic opera where true love prevails over social ambition, we visit the battlefields of 13th Century Novgorod via Sergei Prokofiev's score to Sergei Eisenstein's 1938 film Alexander Nevsky. There's a saxophone sonata from the most popular American composer of the 1940s and 50s, a delightful piece from Ukrainian composer Julia Gomelskaya who died in a car crash in 2016 and we finish up with Franz Liszt and a composition purportedly said to represent the sea. And that's just to start.
Published: 11/12/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy Of Classical Music Ep 30 - 04-12-2023( 0:59:49)       
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This week it’s all about the Czech Republic. Of course an hour long episode only provides enough space for a meagre snapshot of one nation's musical legacy and today's music only serves as a rough introduction. More Czech music will feature in future episodes. Among the featured music is a curious composition by Erwin Schulhoff. His 1919 composition Sonata Erotica is basically the female orgasm notated for performance. The 'climax' of that year's Prague Spring Festival, it was to be Schulhoff's nadir. When the Nazis invaded a few years later they branded him a degenerate and sent him to a death camp. He did not survive.
Published: 4/12/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy Of Classical Music Ep 29 - 27-11-2023( 0:55:33)       
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And somehow we are back in Finland again and this time it's all about the Kalevala, that nation's national epic, which we explore through two compositions: Uuno Klami's Kalevala Suite and Jean Sibelius's Tapiola.
Published: 27/11/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy Of Classical Music Ep 28 - 20-11-2023( 0:55:18)       
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1935 Pirate Film Captain Blood, the world's most performed Mexican orchestral work, an evisceration of the British class system and then there's Arseny Avraamov's Symphony of Factory Sirens. Composed for the fifth anniversary of the October Revolution it involves navy ship sirens and whistles, bus and car horns, factory sirens, cannons, the foghorns of the entire Soviet flotilla in the Caspian Sea, artillery guns, machine guns, hydro-airplanes and a large choir.
Published: 20/11/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy Of Classical Music Ep 27 - 13-11-2023( 1:0:26)       
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Among our usual eclectic mix is Joan Tower's one movement orchestral work Made In America, which draws its inspiration from the song America The Beautiful. There's a snippet from Meredith Monk's opera Atlas, an exploration of the life of a Belgian French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, anarchist opera singer but mostly this week's episode is about Romantic composer Robert Schmann.
Published: 13/11/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy Of Classical Music Ep 26 - 06-11-2023( 0:52:15)       
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After two weeks in Finland and two further weeks in Australia we are back to our usual eclectic musical mix. Starting in Norway we tarry for a while in England and Australia before landing in Russia and taking in the entirety of the most frequently performed work in the classical repertoire, Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.
Published: 6/11/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 25 – 30-10-2023( 0:58:48)       
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In the second part of our journey across Australia we visit the Kakadu National Park, visit the set of a Hitchcock movie and explore the influence of Aboriginal culture on Australian art music before finishing with Deborah Cheetham's glorious symphonic composition Dutala (The Space Between The Stars).
Published: 30/10/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 24 – 23-10-2023( 0:58:57)       
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This week and next it's all about Australia. We start at Cloudstreet in Perth, the setting for the 2016 operatic adaptation of Tim Winton's revered 1991 Novel of the same name and finish with Australia's greatest composer, the wildly eccentric Percy Grainger. Along the way we touch base with all facets of formal Australian art music.
Published: 23/10/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 23 – 16-10-2023( 0:57:59)       
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Finland spends $91 per person per year on art and culture and it shows. While NZ, a nation of similar size, population and GDP supports five professional orchestras, Finland supports 30. In today's episode we take a brief look at that nation's vast compositional catalogue.
Published: 16/10/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 22 - 09-10-2023( 0:57:43)       
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In 2019, 174 composers were invited by the BBC's Music Magazine to select the greatest living composers and of the three selected, one was Kaija Saariaho who died on the 22 June 2023 aged 70. This episode is all about the life and music of Finnish Composer Kaija Saariaho.
Published: 9/10/2023 10:45:00 a.m.
The Joy Of Classical Music Ep 21 - 02-10-2023( 0:55:46)       
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There's a trip to the movies with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, some ground-breaking acoustic-electrictronica courtesy of Kiwi composer Douglas Lilburn, a plea for peace with Frank Ticheli's Earth Song and a visit to Ukraine that includes a conversation with pianist Lubomyr Melnyk who holds the world record for the most notes played per second. Track 1 Viktorija Kaminskaite performing ‘A Voice A Little While Ago’ from Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. Track 2 Myroslav Skoryk – A Melody Track 3: Lubomyr Melnyk – The Continuous Music Man Track 4: Illirion – Lubomyr Melnyk Track 5: Frank Ticheli - Earth Song Track 6: Douglas Lilburn - The Return
Published: 2/10/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy Of Classical Music Ep 20 - 25-09-2023( 0:58:37)       
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In today's episode, Indian classical collides with Western Classical then there's the word that shall not be spoken, the title of a composition by the late Julius Eastman, a fragile but brilliant figure who loved to provoke. Then there's the tragic figures of Ivor Gurney and Lili Boulanger. Gurney, undone by severe mental illness, nevertheless produced some beautiful and enduring music as did Boulanger who died of TB aged 24. Then there's filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's later period masterpiece Ran and its evocative score by Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu. Based on King Lear, Ran is another sort of tragedy. Perhaps beauty from tragedy is the theme for today. Track 1. Reena Esmail - TaReKiTa performed by The Los Angeles Master Chorale Track 2. Reena Esmail - Ram Tori Maya performed by Carnegie Hall’s The Orchestra Sings project Track 3. Tōru Takemitsu - The opening movement from the motion picture Ran. Track 4. Caroline Shaw - ‘Its Motion Keeps’ performed by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Track 5. Julius Eastman - Evil Track 6. Saint Saens - The Swan performed by Yo-Yo Ma, Kathryn Stott Track 7. Lili Boulanger - The Old Buddhist Prayer Track 8. Ivor Gurney - A Gloucestershire Rhapsody
Published: 25/09/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 19- 18-09-2023( 0:58:14)       
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From the grim depths of Soviet Russia to the bright tropical rainforests of Hawaii, birds are a bit of a theme today with the now extinct Hawaiian Kauai and the English Lark featuring. Then there's Terry Riley, minimalist composer and tape loop pioneer regaling us with his strange and joyous visions. Otherwise it's the usual eclectic mix. Track 1. Sylvia McNair performing Hark! Hark! the Echoing Air from Henry Purcell’s 1692 semi opera, The Fairy Queen. Track 2. Alexander Liebermann - The Last Song of the Kauai Track 3. Gavrill Popov - Chamber Symphony for Seven Instruments performed by the USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra Track 4. Terry Riley A Rainbow in the Curved Air Track 5. Maurice Ravel - Valley Of The Bells Track 6. Sergei Rachmaninoff - How Peaceful performed by Norwegian trumpet virtuoso Tine Thing Helseth Track 7. Sergei Rachmaninoff - How Peaceful performed by soprano Anna Netrebko. Track 8. Vaughan Williams - The Lark Ascending performed by The London Philharmonic
Published: 18/09/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy Of Classical Music Ep 18 - 11-09-2023( 0:57:26)       
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From Wales to Poland to Japan to France to the USA. It's an international affair that explores art song, film scores, the classics and the not so classic, that would be some formal electronica from computer creative Laurie Spiegel Track 1. Andrea Bocelli and Bryn Terfel performing At the back of the Holy Temple from George Bizet’s 1863 opera The Pearl Fishers Track 2. Miklós Rózsa - the theme form the 1959 film Ben-Hur performed by the John Wilson Orchestra Track 3. Toshi Ichiyanagi - The first movement from Cloud Atlas performed by Yukie Nagai Track 4. City Boy by Judd Greenstein performed by the Now Ensemble Track 5. Edgard Varese - Ionisation performed by the Ensemble Intercontemporain Track 6. Listen by Scott Gendel performed by mezzo-soprano Dominique Cooper Track 7. Marion Bauer - Coyote Song performed by Helene Lindqvist Track 8. Arthur Rubinstein plays Chopin’s Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2 in E flat Track 9. Rebecca Clarke - A Dream sung by soprano Hélène Lindqvist Track 10. Laurie Spiegel - Drums
Published: 11/09/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 15 – 05-09-2023( 0:55:11)       
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We conclude our three-part celebration of women composers with NZ composer Janet Jennings who talks about her life and two works, A Daughter of Eve and Voices Of Women. Track 1: A Daughter of Eve Track 2: Voices of Women
Published: 5/09/2023 8:45:00 a.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 17 – 04-09-2023( 0:58:12)       
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Ep 17 Jeremy Mayall Part 2 1. Jeremy Mayall - Space Time Continuum 2. Flutter - Composed by Jeremy Mayall, lyrics by Shoshana Sachi, sung by Julia Booth 3. Jeremy Mayall - As Time Passes 4. Jeremy Mayall - The Long White Cloud 5. Pierre Boulez with the Ensemble Intercontemporain - Répons 6. Jeremy Mayall: OneFatMan - A Typical Day In Suburbia from his 2004 pop/hip/hop album A Typical Day In Suburbia
Published: 4/09/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 16 - 28-08-2023( 0:58:12)       
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Jeremy Mayall Interview Part One Track 1. Kia Eke Panuku from the album AWE by Horomona Horo and Jeremy Mayall Track 2. Jeremy Mayall - Fourteen Moments for Three performed by NZTrio Track 3. Jeremy Mayall - The Effect Of Bundled Sticks On Sound performed by Ben Hoadley (bassoon) with Chris Lam Sam (electronics) Track 4. Floating Points with Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Movement 1 from the album Promises Track 5. Jeremy Mayall - Opening theme from the Shepherd soundtrack Track 6. Jeremy Mayall - We Are All Stardust.
Published: 28/08/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 14 - 21-08-2023( 1:2:22)       
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Our celebration of Women in Music continues 1. Soprano Dawn Upshaw performs Tania Leons Mothers Prayer 2. Everything You Need to Know about Florence Price 3. "Andante Cantabile" from Florence Price's "String Quartet in a minor 4. Angélica Negrón - El Colapso 5. Meredith Monk: Strand (Gathering) from Songs of Ascension 6. Meredith Monk – ‘I Believe in the Healing Power of Art’ An Audio Documentary 7. Margaret Monk - Road Songs from David Byrne’s 1986 film True Stories 8. Kaija Saariaho - Ballade 9. Alla Pavlova: Symphony No. 4 "Path to Shambala”
Published: 21/08/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 13 – 14-08-2023( 1:2:30)       
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As I have been putting this series together I find myself endlessly grateful to Wikipedia and YouTube for their vast archives, especially YouTube whose musical offerings are almost unsurpassed. As I have been exploring the music on offer I have watched numerous live orchestral concerts from the 1940s through to the 1980s and was surprised by the lack of women. Until the 1990s it seems that orchestras were a male dominated affair and as for women composers, good luck with that. Until the last couple of decades it seems female musicians were largely on the outer and I can’t help but imagine all that squandered potential, but in recent times things have changed considerably and with that in mind the next three episodes are all about women and the fulfilment of that potential. 1. Dame Kiri Te Kanawa performs Sergei Rachmaninov’s Vocalise 2. Ina Boyle - Phantasy 3. Margaret Bonds - Troubled Water. 4. Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion - Other Song 5. Emahoy Tsegué Maryam Guèbrou - The Garden of Gethesemanie 6. Juhi Bunsal - In Perfect Light 7. Excerpt from Deborah Cheetam’s opera Pecan Summer 8. Excerpt from Deborah Cheetham’s opera Eumeralla: A War Requiem for Peace: IV. 9. Joan Tower - Sequoia 10. Jenny McLeod - A&P Show
Published: 14/08/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 12 - 07-08-2023( 1:3:26)       
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We start in Quebec with a rock band, pass through Japan and end in Estonia with an often overlooked genius. On the way there is the usual eclectic mix with a focus on Aaron Copland’s Fanfare For The Common Man. 1. Emerson Lake and Palmer - Fanfare for the Common Man 2. Aaron Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man 3. Joan Tower - Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman 4. Maurice Ravel - Boat on the Ocean 5. Toru Takemitsu - Rain Spell 6. Christina Ludwig performs Franz Schubert’s To Music 7. Hildur Guðnadóttir - Theme from. the motion picture Tar 8. Hildur Guðnadóttir - Fólk fær andlit 9. Claude Debussy - Children's Corner 10. Eduard Tubin - Symphony No. 1 in C Minor: I. Adagio - Allegro Feroce
Published: 7/08/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 11 – 31-07-2023( 0:59:33)       
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We are back to our eclectic journeying and today’s adventures include New Zealand and Wolastoq Tribal territory in Eastern Canada and take in Einstein, Beethoven, murder ballads, noir and art song. 1. Inia Te Wiata - The Maori Flute 2. Jeremy Dutcher - Pomok naka Poktoinskwes 3. Michael Houstoun performs Beethoven’s Piano sonata No15 in D Major, Opus 28 4. The Philip Glass Ensemble perform Train from Einstein on the Beach, an opera by Philip Glass 5. Bryce Dessner - Murder Ballades, Omie Wise, 6. Aaron Copland - Quiet City 7. Erik Franklin - Weavers
Published: 31/07/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 10 – 24-07-2023( 0:57:20)       
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Classical music is dynamic and constantly evolving, building on what has gone before while pressing forward in search of new territory and with that in mind this week we’ll be looking at some of the genres young stars. 1. Juhi Bansal - Waves of Change (music, surfing and identity) 2. Caroline Shaw - Partita for 8 Singers: No. 1. Allemande 3. Attacca Quartet with Caroline Shaw - And So 4. David Hertzberg’s Spectre of the Spheres performed by the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra 5. Leonard Mark Lewis - Warm Summer Sun 6. Lucie Horsch - Pašona Kolo 7. Gabriella Smith - Bard of a Wasteland 8. Bryce Dessner’s Raphael performed by the Ensemble Intercontemporain
Published: 24/07/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 9 – 10-07-2023( 0:58:14)       
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We continue our exploration of that strange and exhilarating landscape where Classical meets Jazz. 1. The Swingle Singers performing Prelude no.11 from J S Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier 2. Luciano Berio’s Sinfonia: Section III performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra with The Swingle Singers 3. Herbie Hancock performs Maurice Ravel’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra In G 4. Dmitri Shostakovich -Suite for Jazz Orchestra, Waltz No. 2 5. Igor Stravinski - Piano Rag Music 6. Igor Stravinsky’s Ebony Concerto performed by Woody Herman 7. George Antheil - Jazz Symphony 8. Leonard Bernstein - 3 Dance Episodes from his musical On the Town
Published: 10/07/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 8 – 03-07-2023( 0:56:18)       
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For today’s episode and the next we explore that strange and wondrous landscape where Classical meets Jazz. 1. The Swingle Singers perform Bach 2. John Lewis’s Three Little Feelings from Gunther Schuller’s album project Birth of the Third Stream 3. NZ pianist Michael Houston performs Mike Nock’s In the Time of Sukura 4. George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue 5. Copland Plays his own Piano Concerto from Jazz in the Concert Hall recorded in 1964.
Published: 3/07/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy Of Classical Music Ep 7 – 26-06-2023( 0:56:24)       
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Today we begin our travels in 4th century Byzantium take in Austria, France, Russia, Italy and on the way there much strangeness, wonder and beauty to explore. 1. Anna Netrebko Elīna Garanča perform "Mira O Norma Si, Fino All'ore Estreme’ from the Opera "Norma" by Vincenzo Bellini 2. Claude Debussy - Clair de Lune 3. A short audio documentary about Austrian composer Anton Webern then we listen to his Variations, Op 27 played by Glenn Gould 4. Dmitri Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102 5. Ioannis Arvanitis - Hymn to St. Basil
Published: 26/06/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 6 – 19-06-2023( 0:56:55)       
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Today’s journey includes 16th century England,19th century Italy with a diversion to the Planet of the Apes before Ethiopia and the Baltic sea. On offer is the avant-garde, the High Renaissance, some circular Ethiopian compositional styles and lots more besides. 1. Angela Gheorghiu performs Vissi d'arte from Tosca by Puccini 2. A short audio documentary about John Cage then it’s his composition Sonata V 3. Soprano Emma Kirby performs Part 1 scene 3 from Joseph Haydn’s The Creation 4. Thomas Tallis - Spem in Alium 5. Jerry Goldsmith - The Planet of the Apes. 6. Handel - Zadok the Priest 7. Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou - The Homeless Wanderer 8. The Baltic Sea Orchestra performs Sunlight by Max Richter
Published: 19/06/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy Of Classical Music Ep 5 – 12-06-2023( 0:54:36)       
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We start today’s adventures in Baroque England before visiting Ukraine, France, New Zealand and finishing up in Appalachia. Art songs, symphonies, piano music and arias. It’s all here. 1. Kathleen Battle performs "Ombra Mai Fu / Largo" by G.F. Handel 2. Stefania Turkevych - Time Passes 3. Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1 4. Douglas Lilburn - A Song of Islands 5. Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring
Published: 12/06/2023 11:44:23 a.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 4 – 05-06-2023( 0:53:16)       
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In today’s episode we begin in Ukraine pass through Hollywood, Russia and medieval Germany and on the way touch on the art songs, film scores, scared music, concrete music and listen to the most English composer of his generation.
Published: 5/06/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 3 – 29-05-2023( 0:57:22)       
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In this episode travel from Renaissance Italy to contemporary New York and on the way touch on opera, the avant-garde, film score music, electronica and some joyous snippets from Russian/American composer Alla Pavlova’s work The Old New York Nostalgia Suite.
Published: 29/05/2023 10:00:00 p.m.
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 2 – 22-05-2023( 0:58:29)       
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In this episode travel from Renaissance Italy to contemporary New York and on the way touch on opera, the avant-garde, film score music, electronica and some joyous snippets from Russian/American composer Alla Pavlova’s work The Old New York Nostalgia Suite.
Published: 22/05/2023 10:00:00 p.m.