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  • Lyric for Strings – George Walker

    Lyric for Strings – George Walker
    2024/06/29
    In this episode, I listen to the African American composer's Lyric for strings and think about the difference between music that evokes emotions and music that works through them.
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    20 分
  • Joy and Learning in Brahms' Second Symphony

    Joy and Learning in Brahms' Second Symphony
    2024/05/07
    Brahms' second symphony is, as commentators agree, "serene, full of warmth, and brimming with optimism." The philosopher, Roger Scruton, writes that great music does not simply express a state - serenity, warmth, optimism – it interrogates it. In this podcast I explore his idea, and its – and the symphony's – profound relationship to life.
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    33 分
  • A passion for life: Dvorak's cello concerto

    A passion for life: Dvorak's cello concerto
    2024/03/16
    In this podcast I explore the idea that Dvorak redeems the problems of life – specifically the problem of his homesickness for Czechoslovakia – not by solving them but by turning them into music.
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    24 分
  • What's the deal with Mozart's Jupiter symphony?

    What's the deal with Mozart's Jupiter symphony?
    2024/01/24
    Commentators seem unable to praise the Finale of Mozart's 41st symphony enough, containing, "they say," the greatest 30 seconds of music ever written. I thought I'd work out why – and I'm not so sure I agree.
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    19 分
  • In Dulci Jubilo

    In Dulci Jubilo
    2023/12/23
    In this podcast I explore the relationship of carols to the magic of Christmas.
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    14 分
  • Hely-Hutchinson's Carol Symphony

    Hely-Hutchinson's Carol Symphony
    2023/12/01
    When I first rehearsed this music I could make no sense of it! So I made a podcast. Now I find parts of the Carol Symphony quite moving.
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    17 分
  • Mahler's First Symphony – Movement 1

    Mahler's First Symphony – Movement 1
    2023/04/30
    Journey to "where no [person] has gone before" or an early morning walk? Chamber music or symphony of gigantic proportions? Mark and Matthew listen to key moments from a work haunted by themes of joy, unrequited love and death.
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    25 分
  • Louise Farrenc's 2nd Symphony

    Louise Farrenc's 2nd Symphony
    2022/11/14
    Matthew and Mark discover the classical in the romantic.
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    22 分