Recent Episodes
July 10, 2025
Italy… Violins, Operas and Popes.
Can something of a survey of the music of Italy… including music of the city states, republics and kingdoms that became the nation of Italy in the late nineteenth century… be done in a little over an hour? Absolutely not. But...
July 4, 2025
The Ballet... Music in Pursuit of Beauty
From fairy tale romances to dark psychological dramas, discover how ballet music evolved while maintaining its essential power to match the poetry of human movement with unforgettable musical expression… what I’m calling gras...
June 26, 2025
Mozart’s 1791… Music from his final year
You could take almost any year of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s life, probably from the age of fifteen onwards and be staggered by both the scale of his output… AND the quality… but his final year… 1791.. was a truly ast...
June 19, 2025
Ghosts & Monsters… Music of the Supernatural
There are composers who revel in depictions of the unseen… manifestations of the darker aspects of our imaginations… creatures from realms that four centuries of science just can’t seem to eradicate from our vulnerable psyche...