Episodes
Feb. 9, 2025
Landscapes… Music for deserts, parks, rocks, islands and an entire continent.
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...
Feb. 9, 2025
Woodwinds… Great music for Oboes, Flutes, Clarinets & Bassoons.
Like many terms in classical music ‘woodwind’ is a vague catch all that is now a little out of date.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’....
Feb. 9, 2025
Mini-episode: Why is almost everything in Italian?
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...
Feb. 9, 2025
Maurice Ravel… An hour of music by the incredible French composer.
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 inste...