Recent Episodes
Nov. 28, 2025
Young Brahms… before the Symphonies.
From playing piano in the waterfront bars of Hamburg in his teens, through the failed premiere of his first Piano Concerto, his fortuitous friendship with Clara & Robert Schumann, reviving the String Sextet… to writing a Requ...
Nov. 21, 2025
Brilliant Women… No. 1
In recent years music written by women has at long last begun to be commissioned, programmed, performed, recorded, discussed, reviewed, studied, and celebrated. And of course, most importantly, composed… in greater and greate...
Nov. 14, 2025
The Clarinet... Masters and Masterworks.
An episode back in late May 2025 featured music written for the clarinet from the 20 th century. This is a companion show goes back to close to the invention of the clarinet with a work from 1755 and then finishes up with a g...
Nov. 10, 2025
Handel… A very German Italian Englishman. Part Two.
At the end of the last episode Georg Friedrich Handel had just composed the anthem ‘Zadok The Priest’ for the coronation of King George II of Great Britain. The year was 1727 and it was the same year that Handel; who had grow...