32: Tragic by name but not really by nature - 13 minutes of perfect Brahms
This is perhaps great classical music at its purest - intense, dramatic, invigorating, uplifting - Brahms 'Tragic Overture' Music here: https://bit.ly/2TRBq74 or here on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3gCT...
30 Touko 20203min
31: Wanna go to the ball? Cinderella's going!
There's a big party at the palace for the prince and you're invited. So is Cinderella, but she's got a curfew... ...with terrific music from Prokofiev. Music here: https://youtu.be/Xs2Ffdt7e_c Music a...
29 Touko 20202min
30: Better left alone? Mussorgsky's witches party uninterrupted - Lockdown Music
Mussorgsky's Night on Bare Mountain is an entirely different piece without the tidying up of his friends - raw, savage, gripping. Make sure you've listened to Episode 28 before this one (https://bit.l...
27 Touko 20202min
29: Magical Adventures from the 1001 nights - Lockdown Music by Rimsky-Korsakov
Get swept away on magical adventures, and let Rimsky-Korsakov fire up your imagination with this music from Sheherezade - thrilling and uplifting! Music here: https://youtu.be/sATNiVGgwts and here on ...
19 Touko 20202min
Lockdown Music 28: Witches' big night out - Mussorgsky, Night on Bare Mountain
Give yourself a fright with a witches party on Bald Mountain! Scary stuff: Music here: https://youtu.be/52iOdAVU4C8 or here on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2Tenwfk Please listen, like, share subscribe on...
18 Touko 20202min
Lockdown Music 27: Short Ride in a Fast Machine - Lift off with John Adams
Hard to play, a lot of fun, a huge noise! John Adams sums up his own music nicely and this is a modern great to leave you uplifted and exhausted. Music here: https://youtu.be/5LoUm_r7It8 and here on S...
15 Touko 20203min
Lockdown Music 26: Energy, Optimism and feeling Expansive: Nielsen Symphony No.3
This is punchy music that still swings and sings and sends an energising message of optimism and generosity of spirit... though the composers claims would have been more modest. Music here: https://yo...
14 Touko 20204min
Lockdown Music 25: Party like its 1800 - Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.1
I love the fun and exuberance of this movement from Beethoven's 'first' Piano Concerto. For Beethoven, playing the piano at the first performance would have been the least of his worries. Music her...
13 Touko 20203min
