Classical Music: The Stories
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Every week, I choose one piece from one composer to pick apart and look at in detail. I look at the stories behind it, I examine the composer and what inspired him/her to compose that music, and of course offer my own opinion on the piece! New episode every Sunday.
Classical Music: The Stories
11M ago
In the final episode before the summer, Carl looks at a pivotal moment in musical tonality; Wagner's 'unplayable' Tristan und Isolde ..read more
Classical Music: The Stories
11M ago
This weeks episode focuses on Beethoven's intense work scored for 2 violins, viola and cello ..read more
Classical Music: The Stories
11M ago
In this extra-terrestrial episode, Carl discusses the piece that British composer Gustav Holst is most famous for: his tribute to the planets ..read more
Classical Music: The Stories
11M ago
This week's episode focuses in on an aria from Giuseppe Verdi's groundbreaking opera La Traviata ..read more
Classical Music: The Stories
11M ago
What would you do if you were asked to write music for a prestigious awards ceremony? Brahms clearly took it to mean 'Write music for a student party'. Which is exactly what he did. Here is his Academic Festival Overture ..read more
Classical Music: The Stories
11M ago
This week's episode focuses on Faure's requiem which has a completely different mood and tone to Mozart's requiem in how it views the topic of death ..read more
Classical Music: The Stories
11M ago
It's two for the price of one this week. Or is it? Alessandro Marcello may have written a beautiful oboe concerto, but it's Johann Sebastian Bach we have to thank for it's popularity ..read more
Classical Music: The Stories
11M ago
Back from his break, Carl looks at Robert Schumann's Symphony in C major which he wrote at a particularly painful time of his life ..read more
Classical Music: The Stories
11M ago
On a completely different note (and tone and genre), Carl looks at American Composer George Gershwin's opera 'Porgy and Bess ..read more
Classical Music: The Stories
11M ago
This week, the longest river of the Czech Republic is the subject, thanks so Bedrich Smetana's gripping tone poem all about his homeland ..read more