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Classical For Everyone

Peter Cudlipp

Musique

Fréquence : 1 épisode/5j. Total Éps: 95

Five hundred years of incredible music. No expertise is necessary. All you need are ears. If you've ever been even slightly curious about classical music then this is the podcast for you.

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An Introduction to the Podcast… with a little music.

mercredi 12 février 2025 • Durée 08:22

Maybe the place to start... An eight-minute overview of the podcast including some unfairly brief excerpts from music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Dmitri Shostakovich, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Adams, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, George Gershwin and Ross Edwards.

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Mini-episode: Why does the word 'sonata' keep turning up?

dimanche 9 février 2025 • Durée 12:44

If you're exploring classical music, you'll bump into the term 'sonata' everywhere - piano sonatas, violin sonatas, trio sonatas… even sonata-form. This mini-episode untangles the many meanings of this surprisingly variable word, from its simple origins in Italian to its complex modern uses. And suggests perhaps why composers keep using it when they want you to really listen.

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The Sea… When composers face the deep.

dimanche 9 février 2025 • Durée 01:00:09

Composers have drawn inspiration from the sea for centuries but only with the rise of the larger orchestras of the nineteenth century did they get the palate needed to create fully persuasive depictions of it. So, apart from one piece for solo piano, major orchestral works are what you will hear in this episode... 'The Sea and Sinbad's Ship' from Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Sheherazade' an unfairly short interlude from Benjamin Britten's opera 'Peter Grimes', the overture to Richard Wagner's 'The Flying Dutchman', Claude Debussy's 'The Sunken Cathedral', New Zealander Gareth Farr's massive 'From the Depths sound the Great Sea Gongs' and more Debussy… 'Games of the Waves' from 'La Mer' or 'The Sea'.

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Mini-episode: Are conductors really that important?

dimanche 9 février 2025 • Durée 09:11

Spend any time with musicians who play in an orchestra it won't be long before they are sharing war stories of their experiences with dreadful conductors. The subtext of some of these conversations is a half-serious belief that the conductor is just a face for the poster, a body for fundraising events and a target for critics having a bad night… someone the orchestra could survive perfectly well without and, if anything, the performance would be better and everyone on the stage… and in the audience… would have a much more enjoyable time.

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Music from six remarkable composers... who just happen not to be men.

dimanche 9 février 2025 • Durée 01:08:23

James Brown once sang, 'It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World' - and for centuries, classical music was exactly that. While talent knows no gender, opportunity certainly did, and countless musical voices were silenced by social barriers and prejudice. But some composers refused to be quiet. This episode introduces music by six women who found ways to make their voices heard: Fanny Mendelssohn, whose works sometimes appeared under her brother's name; Florence Price, who broke barriers as an African-American woman in classical music; and contemporary voices like Jennifer Higdon and Elena Kats-Chernin, whose works premiere in today's concert halls, alongside powerful music from Peggy Glanville-Hicks and Maria Herz.

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Maurice Ravel… An hour of music by the brilliant French composer.

dimanche 9 février 2025 • Durée 01:06:34

Ravel was born in the Basque borderlands of France in 1875 and much of his music can be thought of as Spanish rhythms meeting French elegance. He was accepted into the Paris Conservatory as a teenager to study piano but instead focused on composition. For the first couple of decades of his adult career he was not welcomed by the musical establishment of the day. But especially after the First World War he came to be seen as a major figure and with increasing international success he was by the 1930s considered France's greatest living composer. Ravel's music in this episode is a section of his first Piano Concerto, the Pavane for a Dead Princess, a little taste of his String Quartet, his amazing orchestral work, La Valse or The Waltz, the 'Blues' section of his second Violin Sonata… and his rather popular 'Bolero'.

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Mini-episode: Why is almost everything in Italian?

dimanche 9 février 2025 • Durée 09:29

Sonata, cantata, concerto, adagio... for English speakers approaching classical music, these Italian terms can feel like an unnecessary barrier. This mini-episode explores how Italian became classical music's universal language… its journey from the cultural power of Renaissance Italy to today's international concert halls. A short look at why these terms are still with us, and (annoyingly) why knowing the names of six types of pasta isn't quite enough Italian for classical music.

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Woodwinds… Great music for Oboes, Flutes, Clarinets & Bassoons.

dimanche 9 février 2025 • Durée 01:04:30

Like many terms in classical music 'woodwind' is a vague catch all that is now a little out of date. After all, modern flutes aren't even made of wood anymore. But tradition is strong and everyone is going to keep calling them 'woodwinds'. More importantly, these instruments, whether crafted from wood, metal, or modern materials, have drawn composers to their distinct voices for over two centuries… including the music in this episode by John Adams, Claude Debussy, Carl Maria von Weber, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Vivaldi and Carl Vine.

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Landscapes… Music for caves, parks, rocks, islands and an entire continent.

dimanche 9 février 2025 • Durée 59:57

Composers respond to ideas, emotions, literature, people, history… and places. Places they've lived, places they've been and places they've only dreamed of. In this episode Felix Mendelssohn captures the echoes of Fingal's Cave, Peter Sculthorpe and William Barton evoke a rocky outcrop in Australia's Northern Territory, Charles Ives wanders through Central Park, Peter Maxwell Davies celebrates the town of Stromness in the Orkney Islands, and Ralph Vaughan Williams conjures the frozen wilderness of Antarctica.

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Mini-episode: Why is some Classical Music so damn long?

samedi 8 mars 2025 • Durée 14:49

There's a string quartet written by the American composer Morton Feldman in the 1980s that is about 6 hours long. 'Einstein on the Beach', the opera by Phillip Glass and Robert Wilson, is about five hours long and is performed without an interval. There is of course plenty of classical music that is well under these eye-watering durations. A Vivaldi concerto can be over in ten minutes… Aaron Copland's 'Fanfare for the Common Man' is under four minutes and most Chopin Nocturnes are three to five minutes long. But there is still a perception and an understandable one… that classical music is long. And it is a quick leap to the conclusion that it is too long. Well, there might be another way of looking at it.

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