71.Star spangled banners and unanswered questions - Ives: 3 Places in New England
Great music to mark the US Presidential hand-over! Raucous fun alongside the deep and meaningful, Three Places in New England is challenging, confusing, complex, silly and surprising music that leaves...
21 Jan 20219min
70. Blast your ears into the New Year at some Roman Festivals
If you've got any new year sluggishness, sweep all that away with a blast of Respighi's Roman Festivals - four vivid musical pictures featuring love songs and folk dances, wine, religion and state-spo...
14 Jan 20218min
69. The best Christmas treat! Duke Ellington's Nutcracker
Three musical geniuses really make the magic come alive in Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's adaptation of Tchaikovsky's classic, Nutcracker. Essential Christmas listening to bring joy to the word...
24 Dec 20208min
68. An unheard masterpiece from an unheard master: Henriëtte Bosmans
There's so much unknown great music out there! You almost certainly won't have heard this great piece or have heard of its writer. I certainly hadn't. Henriëtte Bosman's wrote her Concert Piece for vi...
17 Dec 202017min
67. Bad trip. Berlioz - Fantastic Symphony Pt3
In the dramatic final part of our drug-fuelled adventure with composer Hector Berlioz, the dreams turn to nightmare visions of murder, execution, witches and demons. It's loud, exciting, brilliant and...
3 Dec 20205min
66. Escape to the country? Berlioz - Fantastic Symphony, Pt2
Composer Hector Berlioz's love-struck young artist - in his drug induced dreams - escapes to the country. In the peaceful atmosphere he dreams of love and happiness - but can it last? Listening time...
29 Nov 20204min
65. Can't get her out of my head: Berlioz - Fantastic Symphony Pt1
Driven to distraction and to drugs by a woman he'd never even spoken to, Hector Berlioz was consumed with passion. His obsession and fevered mind produced the unique, Symphony Fantastique. It's brilli...
26 Nov 20209min
An Equal Music? France's first great woman composer - Louise Farrenc, Symphony No. 3
This is a rarity on two counts - it's a really good French symphony from the 1800s, and it's written by a woman! The brilliant, Symphony No.3 by Louise Farrenc. Listen [and watch] on youtube or Spoti...
6 Nov 20206min
