Lockdown Music 24: The most beautiful piano music there is - that no one knows!
This is a personal discovery for me. The slow movement of this piano sonata by Schubert is so simple, beautiful and moving, I want to share it with everyone. The music's included in the podcast for th...
12 Maj 20204min
Lockdown Music 23: Serious Fun! - Ligeti Romanian Concerto
This great piece is slightly schizophrenic - is it a serious piece of music over-run by people having fun, or a fun piece that's occasionally trying to be serious? Ligeti was showing his love for Roma...
11 Maj 20203min
Lockdown Music 22: Five Play Dangerous Music ! ( by Ligeti)
The Soviet authorities banned the last of Ligeti's excellent and entertaining Six Bagatelles for wind quintet - too dangerous and subversive. Were they right? Music here on film - highly recommended: ...
8 Maj 20203min
Lockdown Music 21: The Original Greatest Showman’s Half-time Show - Handel’s Concerto Grosso No 6
The composer Handel knew what the people wanted - and it was normally more Handel. Here’s a piece written to go in the interval of a Handel show! Emotional, passionate, invigorating. Music here: http...
7 Maj 20204min
Lockdown Music 20: Raucous celebration, accidents and bad traffic: Handel's Fireworks Music
I was going to play something quiet... and then came across this Handel's Fireworks Music. It's brilliant - these performances are raw, raucous and exuberant and it's more fun than this great piece ha...
6 Maj 20203min
Lockdown Music 19: A 200 year old piece for the dance music generation: Beethoven Symphony No.7
This actually might be the best thing ever: the end of Beethoven's 7th Symphony. Intro in the pod, music here: https://youtu.be/ikb-2XRcQdk here on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/35tS4OP or here, with pict...
5 Maj 20203min
Lockdown Music 18: The best piece ever? Rossini's William Tell
My daughter declares this the best music ever! It's the William Tell Overture by Rossini. Do you agree? Podcast is the intro with music here: https://youtu.be/IkUlPLNzoBs or here on Spotify: https://...
4 Maj 20203min
Lockdown Music 16: Joy by the river - Robert Schumann's 3rd Symphony
This is a big favourite in our house. No one matches Schumann when it comes to joyful music! Music here: https://youtu.be/wEUn3Axq6jg or on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2xgHSMW Please comment, like, shar...
2 Maj 20204min
