Listening time 30 mins (podcast 9′, music 21′)

Music here on YouTube, Spotify and [with links to first movement only] on Apple and Amazon played by The English Concert, conducted by Trevor Pinnock. They're playing on 'period instruments' which Haydn would recognise including valveless natural horns played by Anthony Halstead and colleague.

You can buy the recording as a download from Presto music (on its own or with a whole bunch of other Haydn symphonies)

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Check out the playlist of 126 pieces by different women composers from the 32 countries that played in last year's  Women’s World Cup of Classical Music: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCXUbmBaA9Orj2ENFMutv-X1u6DO162hA&si=nw23RYztmTC-ntyr

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Listening time 23 mins (podcast 8', music 15')

Music here, played by the Ensemble InterContemporain conducted by Pierre Boulez, on Youtube, Spotify, and (links to the 1st movement) on Amazon and Apple Music.

If you like to watch people playing, this video is also good.

You can buy a hi quality download at Presto Music for a few quid.

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Listening time 38 mins (plus music 2hrs 8')

Music here on Youtube, played live in concert by Rolf Hind. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W34IlnsDX8&t=4521s]

Be quick and go see Rolf play this at Durham Cathedral.

Visit Rolfhind.com for more information on our excellent guest!

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Listening time 33 mins (podcast 15', music 18')

The complete music here on Youtube.

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Check out our earlier conversation with Katharina about her life and Swiss female composers as part of Cacophony's Women's World Cup of Classical Music...

and visit https://www.katharina-nohl.ch/

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Listening time 27 mins (podcast 9', music 18')

Music here on Youtube, Spotify, Amazon and Apple Musics  played by the Swedish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Béla Drahos. You can buy the recording as a download from Presto music: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7926758--haydn-symphonies-volume-27

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USA vs Republic of Ireland

Complete music here: hthttps://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCXUbmBaA9OoRjafAn_k1zTnHR8cH9qyj

Please listen to the music and then:

vote here: https://forms.gle/XJoU1Vr3MfWraQL48

Voting open NOW

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The complete pieces on Maja's list can be heard here:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCXUbmBaA9Orpqp5R5jfX-LzBIjoUeRim

Listening time 31 min (podcast 18', music, 13')

Discover more about Maja and her music at her website:

https://ratkje.no and check out more of Cacophony's conversations with female composers.

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Singer, Gabriella di Laccio is our guide to music by women from Brazil - a melting pot of traditions and cultures that ends up with music that sounds... Brazilian!

Listening time: podcast 27mins, music playlist 20 mins

The complete music is available in the YouTube playlist.

You can discover more about Gabriella di Laccio on her website: https://www.gabrielladilaccio.com;

Donne - Women in Music, home of Gabriella's indispensable 'Big List' of Women composers is here at: https://donne-uk.org

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In this episode we turn to Canada, where Melissa Hui's selection is typically diverse with living composers who are first nations, Canadian born and immigrant.

Melissa brings her thoughtfulness and insight to a playlist that might challenege our perceptions, but will leave us satisfied.

Listening time: podcast 26mins, music playlist 31 mins

The complete music is available in the YouTube playlist.

You can discover more about Melissa and her music on her website: https://sites.google.com/view/melissahui/home

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We shift the focus to England, with Roxanna Panufnik's choice of rich and satisfying pieces from a line up of stellar composers.

Listening time: podcast 20mins, music playlist 23 mins

The complete music is available in the YouTube playlist.

You can discover more about Roxanna Panufnik on her website: https://roxannapanufnik.com

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Elena Kats-Chernin presents her choices of music from Australia - composers who all work hard and write music of vitality, invention, intensity and often fun!

Listening time: podcast 24mins, music playlist 25 mins

The music is available in the YouTube playlist

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The Women's World Cup of Classical Music is underway at www.cacophonyonline.com

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In this epsiode, Inés Medina Fernández presents her choices of music from Spain, carefully chosen from accross the country and including including famous musical names we might know - but pieces we definitely won't!

Listening time: podcast 24mins, music playlist 20 mins

The complete music is available in the YouTube playlist.

You can discover more about Inés Medina-Fernández on her website: https://www.inesmedinafernandez.com

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This episode features music from the Netherlands and Marion von Tilzer's choices of music that gets us more connected. We'll hear how, when a performer is relaxed, it can be like being in the audience...or writing the music afresh, and why the Netherlands is famous for painters...but not composers...

Listening time: podcast 21mins, music playlist29 mins

The complete music is available in the YouTube playlist.

You can discover more about Marion von Tilzer on her website: https://marionvontilzer.com

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This epsiode we hear top young composer, Sage Shurman, getting super excited - in a pretty chilled Californian kind of way - for both the World Cup football and her choices of pieces by living women American composers for the Women's World Cup of Classical Music. Can the USA win both? - That will be down to you to decide!

Listening time: podcast 19mins, music playlist 16 mins

The complete music is available in the YouTube playlist.

You can discover more about Sage Shurman on her website: http://sageshurman.com

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In this episode we hear from Katharina Nohl, founder of the Swiss Female Composers Festival, with her choices of music from Switzerland and how giving female composers greater exposure helps plant their music in the collective memory of society.

The complete music is available in the YouTube playlist.

You can discover more about Katharina Nohl on her website: https://www.katharina-nohl.ch

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Listening time 37 mins (podcast 7', music 30')

Music here on Youtube, Spotify, Amazon and Apple Musics (tracks 7-10) played by the Intercontinental Ensemble with tons of style and (unlike some of the other recordings) totally in tune! You can buy the recording as a download from Presto music: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9312834--arc

Thanks to Emmie for timely-making of a giant daisy chain!

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Listening time 19 mins (podcast 6', music 13')

The music is here, played by the incomparable Beaux Arts Trio on Youtube and Spotify. If you're listening on Apple or Amazon you need a link for each movement/ track:

Amazon mvt 1 / Amazon mvt 2

Apple mvt 1/ Apple mvt 2

You can buy a recording of the piece as a high-quality download for a couple of quid here at Presto Music. Be sure to get the right one - the full title of the piece is: Haydn: Piano Trio No. 19 in F, Hob.XV:6

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Listening time c45 mins (podcast, 12', Music 33')

Music here on Spotify, Amazon and Apple Music played by the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie with conductor, Peter Eötvös. You can buy the recording or stream it too at Presto Music

There are plenty of video performances on Youtube. I like this one, played by the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France with Mikko Franck. The TV director really captures the personalities in the orchestra and gets in nice and close.

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Listening time 25 mins (podcast, 7', Music 18')

Music here on Youtube played by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes

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Listening time 8 mins (podcast 5.5', music 2.5')

Listen to the music, Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No.1, here on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Music or Amazon music played by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin. You can buy a recording of the piece here at Prestomusic.com (but you have to scroll all the way to the end of a long track listing)

On Youtube you can watch the work's dedicatee, Marin Alsop conduct this alongside Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man.

And here there's a nice interview with Joan Tower - she seems like a fun person!

Copland's Fanfare was featured last time on Cacophony.

Stravinsky's Petrushka was episode 138.

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'No taxation without representation'? Perhaps today's call should be 'No representatives (from the Head of State down) who don't pay their taxes!'

Listening time c10 minutes (podcast 6', music 3')

Listen to the whole piece here, played by the San Francisco Symphony  conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon music 

You can buy the piece as a high-quality download from Presto music.

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Listen to the whole piece here, played by Maurizio Pollini on piano on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Music (this links to mvt 1 and you need tracks 23,24,25) and Amazon music (also mvt 1 and you need tracks 7,8,9)

You can buy the piece as a high quality download from Presto music.

Thanks to Vanessa Thomas for this episode's artwork!

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Listening time c36 mins [11' podcast, 21 or 25' music]

The complete music is here in the original 1970s recording by Eric Heidsieck on Spotify, Youtube, Amazon and Apple Music

I think I prefer this more recent rendition by Sofya Gulyak on Youtube, taken from a 2013 BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

What do you think? Tell me with a comment at cacophonyonline.com! I'd love to hear from you!

If you want to play the piece yourself you can download the music for free from Dr Angela Mace Christian's website!

Here, you can listen to Cacophony's recent episodes on Clara Schumann's piano trio or the 16 year old Felix Mendelssohn inspired by Shakespeare.

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Listening time 24 mins (podcast 6', music 18')

Music here, played by the Queensland Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Penny on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Music (tracks 1-8 English Dances Set 1 op.27 and Set 2, op.33) and Amazon (tracks 1-8). You can buy a whole cd (also including the other 'national'(and Cornish!) dances as a high quality download here

The Dvořák Slavonic Dances talked about in this episode were covered previously on Cacophony.

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Total listening time 18 mins (podcast 7', music 11')

Here's Joe Anderson, James ‘Duggie’ Carter and the Reverend Alfred Huddle:

The music is here on Youtube, Spotify Apple Music and Amazon., played by The Hallé conducted by Mark Elder (and it's available to buy as a high-quality download from Presto Music ). What do you think? Let me know with a comment at cacophonyonline.com. I'd love to hear from you!

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The picture credit goes to William Norris - who's visited King's Lynn as a tourist more recently than me!

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Listening time 21 mins (music 16', podcast 5')

The music is here, played by the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marko Ivanovic on Youtube, Spotify, and links to the album (where you want tracks 1-3) at Apple Music and Amazon.

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Listening time c14 minutes (podcast 7', music 7')

It's not available commercially, but this Youtube video has an excellent performance from the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France with conductor Mikko Franck.

Enjoy it? Let us know with a comment at cacophonyonline.com

Maurice Ravel's Mother Goose, mentioned in this episode, featured in Cacophony some time ago and it's here.

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Total listening time 48 mins (podcast 13', music 35')

The music is here in full, played by The Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Pierre Boulez - a master of clarity and excitement on Youtube, Apple Music and Amazon.

What do you think? Let me know with a comment at cacophonyonline.com. I'd love to hear from you!

The recording linked above is available to buy as a high-quality download from Presto Music (where it seems to be cheaper by track than to buy the whole album).

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Total listening time 36 mins (podcast 11', music 25')

The music is here in full, played by The Hallé Orchestra (from Manchester, UK) conducted by Mark Elder on Youtube, Spotify, and links to the album at Apple Music and Amazon.

The recordings linked above are available to buy as high-quality downloads from Presto Music for under GB£5!

This episode's title is a line borrowed from an epic poem by Spike Milligan.

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There are more great episodes featuring the sea at Cacophony. Check out episodes: 29, 63 and 81 for music by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Benjamin Britten and Ethel Smyth. Also, the previous episode, 136, which takes us on a journey ending at Finisterre on the Atlantic coast of Spain.

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Simon Clark, scientist, author and singer joins me to share his passion for the piece and guide us on a journey of musical and maybe spiritual fulfilment! Listening time: podcast 24 mins, music 62'

Music here on Youtube, Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon.

f you like to see your singers in action, there's a live concert video performance on Youtube here.

Path of Miracles was commissioned and premiered by the choir Tenebrae and their conductor Nigel Short. Their recording and performances remain the 'benchmark' for this increasingly popular piece. You can buy the above recording as a cd or high-quality download here, direct from the choir.

The text is a mix of ancient Latin and early European languages (often taken from religious writings or music) alongside an English text writen by the poet Robert Dickinson. The complete words are here (starting on Page 4).

Simon Clark’s The Wikicast is on all major podcast platforms and his science videos are on his Youtube channel. Simon also appears on Cacophony episode 134, unpicking some celestial science as we investigate The sound of the solar system?

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The music is here in full, played by Alicia de Larrocha on Youtube, Spotify, and links to the album on Apple Music and Amazon.

Alicia de Larrocha was one of the great interpreters of Spanish music. These pieces haven't been recorded by many pianists, but de Larrocha did more than once. The recordings linked above are available to buy as high-quality downloads from Presto Music. You can also get her earlier recording (pretty much as good, maybe with slightly less good sound) and it's cheaper if you buy the whole album not individual tracks (a bit of care is required with your basket!).

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Each team in each game of the football was represented by a short piece of (largely classical) music - 110 pieces in all from 107 composers (including 41 pieces by women): loads of great music and loads of new discoveries.

I got together with my friend the conductor and writer Lev Parikian to pick some highlights and talk about a few of the things we learnt - about music, about how we listen and how it makes us feel.

Listening time 41 mins.

Here's a Youtube playlist of our favourite things of all from Not the World Cup

and a playlist of everything that was clipped in the episode.

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You can learn more about Lev Parikian, his books, gigs, writing, nature projects, etc., at: https://levparikian.com and also on Substack & Twitter.

It's a fluid conversation but things break down a bit like this:

01:56 Wistful piano pieces and surprise winners [Music by Dolores Castegnaro, Enrique Granados, Julio Fonseca]

04:30 Giving things a chance/ deciding quickly this isn’t for you/ music that transports you/ powerful openings [Iris Szeghy, Karl Jenkins, John Williams]

08:16 Curation - contrasts and similarities [Hector Villa Lobos, Arthur Honegger, Reena Esmail, Kamancheh music played by Narges Dehghani, Sufi music from the group Hadarrattes Souiriyattes]

11:45 Universal music in a world of nationalism, colonialism, borders and nationality

16:10 Strange new worlds: non-western music to western ears and sensibilities -  Korea Republic and Africa [M. Birvaa, Unsuk Chin, Anne-Marie Nzie]

21:27 Moods and complexity: Joy, sadness and sheer energy [John Adams, ND Jobins balafon music]

24:49 Authenticity and craft [Astor Piazzolla, Dana al Fardan]

26:28 Biases, choosing pieces from classical music’s ‘big players’ & pre-conceptions [Orlande de Lassus, Hector Berlioz, Johann Sebastian Bach]

32:55 Music that’s not by white guys and a Mayer detour

34:48 The final matches and final thoughts [Felix Mendelssohn, Eddie Mora, José Pablo Moncayo, Gabriela Ortiz]

The Cacophony episode on Emilie Mayer's 7th symphony, which excited Lev so much, can be found here.

ALL the music from the epic NWC adventure can be found by exploring the Cacophony website.

...and some of the pieces discussed have their own 'normal' Cacophony podcast episodes where they're discussed in a bit more depth:

Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No.3, "Scottish" (the 'winner' for Germany) 

Maurice Ravel: Mother Goose suite ('should' have been the winner...)

Reena Esmail: Darshan

John Adams: Short ride in a fast machine

John Williams: Olympic fanfare and theme

Cacophony podcast episodes are normally released on the 10th, 20th and 30th of each month. It's a podcast bringing you great music that you may or may not know, but I think you'll love, all aimed at helping us Hear more, feel more and 'be' more! All at www.cacophonyonline.com or direct to your podcast player at bit.ly/cacolink

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Launched to great acclaim, Harmony of the World was then included on the famous Voyager spacecraft Gold Records, an explainer-for-aliens of earth and its people, currently somewhere in interstellar space!

Prof Ruff tells the story with Dr Simon Clark alongside me to explain the science and what it all means. There's more from the great Willie Ruff on his website

Listening time: 25mins+ (podcast 23', Harmony of the World up to 45')

Harmony of the World is here on Youtube.

There's a comprehensive website on the Voyager missions which includes loads of interesting information on the Gold Record: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov

Simon Clark's podcast The Wikicast is available on all major podcast hosts and his science videos are on his Youtube channel

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Listening time 38 mins (podcast 13', music 25')

Music here on Youtube, Spotify and (links to track 1 only:) Apple Music & Amazon Music played by the Beaux Arts Trio. You can buy this classic recording as a download here.

There are plenty of other recordings but notably in the last few weeks one from tip-top violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and friends. If you like the piece, check it out too. She emphasises the drama over the classy ease and sophistication.

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Listening time 48' total (podcast 13', Music 35')

Music here on Youtube, Spotify and Amazon Music played on a brand new recording by the NDR Radiophilharmonie Orchestra conducted by Jan Willem de Vriend. You can buy this brand new recording as a download here.

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Listening time, c20mins (podcast 9', music 10')

Performances here on Youtube, Spotify, Amazon and Apple Music with the Dresden Staatskapelle conducted by Carlos Kleiber. If you like it, you can buy it as a high quality download here. 

I don't generally like hacking big chunks from an opera, but the Wolf's Glen scene is quite something and worth a listen on its own. It's 15 or so minutes: Caspar goes down to the glen, summons Samiel (some sort of satanic spirit) and makes the deal for the bullets. Max comes to join him - he's fearful and plagued by a vision of Agathe, Caspar somehow convinces him to stay and the seven bullets are forged in the magic fire amid increasing terror and desperation. It's all in German, but the only words you need to know are the numbers 1-7 (eins, zwei, drei, vier, fünf, sechs, sieben) and help - hilf! Spotify or Youtube links here.

There's a hyper-real movie version which is quite gruesome and almost manages to do Weber's requested special effects justice.

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Listening time 22 mins (podcast 9', music 13')

Performances here on Youtube, Spotify, (and links to track 1 of 6 on) Amazon and Apple Music with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and Pierre Boulez. If you like it, you can buy it as a high quality download here. It's the Six Pieces for orchestra, op.6

If you like to see your performers then the Berlin Phil played this at the BBC Proms in London a few years back conducted by Simon Rattle and you can watch it here on Youtube. (It's 1:32:00 to 1:44:40) (The whole concert is excellent and takes us on a Wagner-Strauss-Schoenberg-Webern-Berg Journey)

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Listening time: 20 mins (podcast 5', music 14')

Performances here on Youtube, Spotify, (and links to track 1 of 3 on) Amazon and Apple Music with Manchester Camerata conducted by Gábor Takács-Nagy. If you like it, you can buy it as a high quality download here for about £3. 

If you like to see your performers having a great time, at the same time as playing with total commitment and verve, check out the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra with Pekka Kuusisto on YouTube video.

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Listening time: 10 mins (podcast 6', music 4')

Performances here on Youtube, Spotify, Amazon and Apple Music sung by Iestyn Davies, with Crispian Steele-Perkins on trumpet and The King's Consort conducted by Robert King. If you like it, you can buy a recording as a high quality download here. The whole album is terrific.

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Listening time: 25 mins (podcast 7', music 18')

Performances here on Youtube, Spotify and Apple Music (whole album link) played by the wonderful David Watkin. If you like it, you can buy a recording as a high quality download here. The proper title for the piece is: JS Bach: Cello Suite no. 1 in G, BWV1007

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Listening time: 23 mins (podcast 9', music 14')

Performances here on Youtube (with video), Spotify, Apple Music and Bandcamp played by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daníel Bjarnason.

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Listening time: 62 mins (Podcast, 11', music 51')

In 1982 Herbert von Karajan conducted An Alpine Symphony with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. It was the first thing to be put on cd, and those who know these things maintain that it's still one of the best:

Links here to performances on Youtube, Spotify and Apple Music . If you can, try to listen without adverts, which are particularly interrupting in this piece!

If you like to see huge orchestras in action, there are good films performances on youtube. I like the Oslo Philharmonic with Vasily Petrenko and the WDR Symphony and Semyon Bychkov.

Picture credit: Thanks to Melanie Stefan for providing the picture, it's the Alps in France, as seen from the Charmant Som in the Chartreuse Mountains.

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It's a longer episode than normal because (amazingly) I was able to speak with Willie Ruff, the horn player for whom it was written. Willie, now in his nineties, joined me from his home in Alabama and he talked about his life and career, the Mitchell-Ruff duo, Strayhorn and how Suite for The Duo came to life.

Listening time 37 mins (podcast 25', music 12')

The Suite for The Duo can be found here on Apple Music, Youtube and Spotify.

Other music clips in the episode: Take the A-Train [Strayhorn], All the things you are [Jerome Kern], Serenade for tenor, horn and strings [Benjamin Britten]

Willieruff.com has further info on Willie as well as links to buy this and other recordings on cd and his biography A Call to Assembly.

Another episode of Cacophony will feature more from Willie in due course!

Are you a horn player or fab pianist? You can buy the sheet music for the Suite too. Get this in your repertoire! (Be sure to buy parts 1-4, the other edition is incomplete.)

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Listening time c22 minutes (podcast 6', music 16')

Music here: on Youtube, on Spotify or Apple Music played by the Queensland Orchestra, conducted by Michael Christie with William Barton on didgeridoo. 

You can buy this recording as a download here (though you have to buy a whole album, but this recording is the one that I think does best justice to the piece and gives the didgeridoo proper prominence).

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Listening time c30 minutes (podcast 5.5', music 23')

Music here: on Youtube, live in concert with video, on Spotify or Apple Music (Apple Music is a link to the first track only, sorry) played by Il Giardino Armonico, conductor, Giovanni Antonini.

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Listening time c35 minutes (podcast 10', music 25')

Music here: on Youtube, Spotify or Apple Music (Apple Music is a link to the first track only, sorry) played by the brilliant Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique (from London!) conductor, John Eliot Gardiner.

The later version of the symphony is out there too (earlier in the same youtube clip).

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You can listen to the piece here played by the excellent and stylish Academy of Ancient Music.

Listening time 11 minutes (podcast 5', music 6')

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If female French composers are your thing check out others on Cacophony, Lili Boulanger (featuring an interview with champion of female composers, Diana Ambache) or Louise Farrenc.

The picture isn't a Mayflower...but does look a bit like one...

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Listening time 41 minutes (podcast 11', music 30')

There's a mistake: Tybalt is Juliet's cousin, not her brother. Oops! There goes my GCSE English grade!

Here are complete performances of Prokofiev's 2nd suite from Romeo and Juliet on Youtube and Spotify and (maybe only a link to the first track?) on Apple Music, played by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paavo Järvi. You can buy the recordings as a download here.

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Listening time 22 minutes (podcast 7', music 15')

Here are complete performances of my choices on Youtube and Spotify from the soundtrack album of Steven Spielberg's 2021 movie.

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Thanks to NY resident, Emma Cotter for the photo - actually taken from Queensboro bridge, so it's an East Side Manhattan photo, but in the right uptown/ downtown area!

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Listening time 34 minutes (podcast 10', music 24')

Complete performances of the music on Youtube (filmed concert performance with The Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, conducted by Mikko Franck), Spotify and Apple Music (Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Christian Lindberg, conductor). The Apple link only plays the first track - you'll have to work out the rest, sorry.

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Listening time 40 mins (podcast 11', music 29').

Listen to the complete music, played by the awesome Budapest Festival Orchestra, conducted by Iván Fischer on Spotify or Youtube, or Susanna Mälkki conducting the Helsinki Philharmonic on Apple Music (where you have to find the tracks after track 1, sorry)

Sometimes, especially with unfamiliar, complex, music I find it's good to have something to watch - it can help guide our ears a bit, and make concentration easier. There's are two exellent filmed performances on youtube: this one shot during the pandemic with no audience, with the Oslo Philharmonic and conductor Vasily Petrenko, and

this one from The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France conducted by Alan Gilbert. It's got a noisy audience, but the France Musique cameracrews are allowed to move around the stage, which makes for much more interesting video than you often get with orchestras on tv. Which means they catch things like this fantastic smile of musical- and colleague- enjoyment from the harpist too: Watch these few seconds anyway!

You can buy the recordings as downloads, here (Fischer) (& here (Mälkki))

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Click here for complete performances of the Symphony on Youtube, Spotify or here.

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The only performance of the music I can find is here, on Soundcloud, played by the Shirley Thompson Ensemble.

Listening time 12 mins (podcast 5', music 7')

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Listening time 21 mins (podcast 7’, music, 14’)

Music here on youtube, Apple Music or Spotify, conducted by John Wilson, who's unbeatable at this sort of thing, with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Complete music is here on Spotify or Apple Music played by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France conducted by Myung-Whun Chung. (Start at Track 16 on Apple Music.)

Music here on Youtube with pictures but (no choir) played by the London Symphony Orchestra with conductor Simon Rattle.

There is a video of a great performance conducted by Mr Chung, but the sound is a bit dodgy. It's on Youtube here

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Music on Youtube (video performance), Spotify or Apple Music (Bihag and Charukeshi) 

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You can buy a recording as a download of Vijay Gupta's performance on Bandcamp.  

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Extract from The Americans for the Arts 33rd Annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy given by Vijay Gupta provided by AmericansForTheArts.org.

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Listening time 33 mins (podcast 9’, music, 24’)

Music here youtube with pictures and then here, brilliantly played by the Orchestra of St Luke's with conductor Pablo Heras-Casado on Spotify or Apple Music. 

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You can buy a recording as a download here, but you have to buy a whole album to get the brilliant Spotify/Apple recording. A cheaper alternative is the equally assuredly brilliant Berlin Philharmonic and Claudio Abbado

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Music here youtube, and then here on Spotify or Apple Music. If you use Spotify with adverts I'd avoid it for this piece, because this is really a piece you don't want interrupted! 

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Apologies for the gratuitous idyllic beach photo.

Listen to the piece played by Rudolf Buchbinder on Spotify or Apple Music or on Youtube (Georgii Cherkin).

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Music here on Spotify or Apple Music in a brand new recording with another of the 'great' US Orchestras, the Philadelphia Orchestra and conductor, Yannick Nézet-Séguin or on Youtube with the New Black Repertory Ensemble & Leslie B. Dunner, conductor.

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Listen to the complete piece here on Apple Music, Youtube, or Spotify, in fab live-in-concert recordings from the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor Sir Charles Mackerras.

Unfortunately you can't get these as a download. So if you want to buy it, try this recording from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Rafael Kubelik for only 55p.

If you enjoyed this, check out previous episodes for more excellent Dvorak and if you like Witches head for Musorgsky's Night on Bare Mountain.

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Listen to the music here on Spotify, Apple Music, or Youtube (this is harder to dip in and out of, because it's all one track on Youtube. You get another 8 dances too that he wrote later. Just as good, some say... better!)

They're thrilling performances from the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor, Rafael Kubelik, which you can buy as high quality download here.

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Listen to the complete piece on Youtube, Apple Music or Spotify performed by the wonderful Maria João Pires and Ricardo Castro, which you can also buy as a download here, for a couple of quid. The official title is Fantasy in F minor for piano four hands, D.940

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Music here on Youtube or Spotify both taken from the official soundtrack which you can buy at lots of places.

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And despite the bleak music, I do wish you a happy Christmas!

Music here with pictures, played by Starikov Stepan and Nail Mavliudov:

 or on Spotify or Apple Music, played by Daniel Hope and Alexei Botvinov, which you can also buy here as a download for less than £1.

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Music here on Spotify or Youtube with pictures.

Officially it's Concerto Grosso in G minor op.6 no.8 "Fatto per la notte di Natale"

Happy Christmas!

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Music here with pictures from the terrific Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia conducted by Dima Slobodeniouk - and check out the lovey smile and wink from the oboe player at 5'50"!

or here on Spotify with the equally terrific Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and Michael Schønwandt. You can buy this as a download here.

I think Carl Nielsen looks like John Bercow, what do you think?

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Music here, on Youtube or Spotify with conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen (who conducted the performance I recorded off the radio back in the day) and the LA Philharmonic Orchestra. The solo singer in the last movement if you listen to that is Barbara Hendricks. You can buy a high quality download of the whole piece for the shockingly low price of £1.11 here!

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Music here on Spotify or Youtube with the London Chamber Orchestra conducted by Christopher Warren Green in the classic recording I was given by my best school mate, Mark. You can buy it here in hi-quality download. 

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Listening time 26 mins (podcast 9', music 17')

Music here on Spotify or Youtube with the excellent Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.

The pieces on the play list are:

1. Danseuses de Delphes (Dancers of Delphi)

5. Les collines d'Anacapri (The hills of Anacapri)

8. La fille aux cheveux de lin (The girl with the flaxon hair)

9. La sérénade interrompue (Interrupted serenade)

10. La cathédrale engloutie (The submerged cathedral)

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Diana Ambache, long-time champion of women composers, joins me to talk about Boulanger's short life, major talent and this subtle masterpiece for huge choir and orchestra. Listening time: 42 mins (18' podcast, 24' music)

Music here on Youtube or Spotify 

The recording I've chosen features Manchester's BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and soloists Ann Murray and Neil MacKenzie, conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier. 

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Music here, on Spotify or Youtube in a terrific performance that brings out every tiny detail from the LA Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Gustavo Dudamel. 

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Music here on youtube or spotify

Listening time 34 mins (podcast 7', music 27')

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Music here, on Youtube or Spotify, super-stylishly played by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Claudio Abbado.

Listening time: 13 mins (Intro podcast, 6'; music 7')

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Music here, with the terrific partnership of Roderick Williams and Iain Burnside, on Youtube

or Spotify.  Listening time: 21 mins (Intro podcast, 8'; music 13')

Here you'll find all the words to the songs.

Recorded in inescapable heavy rain, so apologies for the sound quality on this episode!

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Music here on Youtube or Spotify (full piece. Part 2 on the Youtube vid starts at 20:46)

Listening time: 29 mins (Podcast 9', music 20') or 49' if you listen to the whole piece. 

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Listening time: 32 mins (Podcast 12', music 20')

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Music here on Youtube or Spotify, sung with urgent intensity by The Sixteen.

Listening time: 39 mins (Podcast 11', music 28')

If you want to know exactly what's being sung, you can download the cd booklet, which contains (among much else) the words in German with a rather old-churchy-English translation.

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Music here on youtube with video, or listen here on Spotify.

Listening time 19 mins (podcast 5', music 12-14').

Please let me know what you think of This Midnight Hour and of this episode of Cacophony by leaving a comment.

The Baudelaire poem which inspired Clyne can be found on this fab page.

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Music here on Youtube or Spotify. 

Listening time 43 mins (podcast 11', music 32')

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Music here on Youtube, beautifully filmed and played by the Danish String Quartet. 

Or on Spotify with the fab Takacs Quartet.

Listening time: 31 mins (Podcast 12', music 17/19')

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If you want to buy a recording of this piece you can get a high quality FLAC download here for only 13p which is still more than the quartet get through Spotify! [Details: Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132, Track 3: Heiliger Dankgesang e. Genesenden an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart!]

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Listening time 14 mins (Podcast 6', Music 8')

Music here with pictures on youtube, or here on Spotify

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Listening time 35 mins (Podcast 11', Music 24')

Music here with pictures on youtube, or here on Spotify

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Listening time 30 mins (Podcast 11', Music 19')

Music here on Youtube and Spotify.

The Youtube video from the Orchestra National de Lille starts and end with music by Sibelius: the melancholy Valse Triste to start and then, after the Wagner, the beyond fab Symphony No.3, which gets the Cacophony treatment in episode 54.

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Listening time 19 mins (Podcast 11', Music 8')

Music here on Youtube

The lower banner in the picture reads "It appears that your demands are just". Shakespeare innit? (it's from Henry IV part 2)

The words to the very from the March of the Women are: 

Shout, shout, up with your song! Cry with the wind, for the dawn is breaking; March, march, swing you along, Wide blows our banner, and hope is waking. Song with its story, dreams with their glory Lo! they call, and glad is their word! Loud and louder it swells, Thunder of freedom, the voice of the Lord!

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You may want to listen to episode 79 before this (but it's not essential)

Listening time: 34 mins (Podcast 10', music 24')

Episode 2 music here on Youtube  or Spotify (but start at track 2).

Whole piece here on Youtube or Spotify

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If you like this piece, you can buy it here or elsewhere in top quality download (FLAC is ‘lossless quality’, MP3 is compressed, so might  loose some impact). This isn't an affiliate link, I just want to make sure you get a great recording, by the always brilliant Budapest Festival Orchestra and conductor, Iván Fischer. The artists get almost nothing via youtube/Spotify...

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Listening time: 31 mins (Podcast 12', music 19')

Music here on Youtube (first 19 mins only) or Spotify.

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Music here on Youtube or Spotify. (Listening time 16 mins: podcast 4', music 12')

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Music here on Youtube or Spotify. (Listening time 20 mins: podcast 8', music 12')

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Feared by the Nazis, loved by the Czechs, this is the acceptable face of nationalism, and its full of great tunes and causes deep satisfaction.

Music here on Youtube or Spotify. (Listening time 32 mins: podcast 10', music 23')

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If you like this piece, you can buy it here or elsewhere in top quality download (FLAC is ‘lossless quality’, MP3 is compressed, so might  loose some impact). This isn't an affiliate link, I just want to make sure you get a great recording: it's the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jakob Hruša. Please buy recordings! The artists get almost nothing via youtube/Spotify...

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Her Quartet for strings is lean and powerful, as well as being a great jump-off into the world of string quartets: a place fraught with danger for the players, where composers go to bare their souls. 

Take a listen and join the Beach Club!

Music here on Youtube or Spotify. (Listening time 21 mins: podcast 7', music 13')

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*This means I can milk the terrible Beach pun, cos it was used in her lifetime in the 1930s and 40s!

Listening time 19 mins (Intro 5', music 14')

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If you like this piece, you can buy it here or elsewhere in top quality download for pennies! This isn't an affiliate link, I just want to make sure you get a great recording. It's Tavener: Svyati 'O Holy One', played by cellist, Steven Isserlis with the Kiev Chamber Choir. It may only be a few p, but it's more than the artists would get via youtube/Spotify!

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In any case, these three Intermezzos for solo piano from late in Brahms's life are beautiful, wistful, dreamy and give us a perfect break from whatever you've got going on...

Like all Brahms pieces they're musically perfect too.

Listening time 21 mins (Intro 6', music 15')

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If you really like these pieces, why not buy them? Only 51p in the UK! This isn't an affiliate link, I just want to make sure you get a great recording. It's Brahms Intermezzi op.117 played by Maria João Pires.

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Listening time 20' [podcast intro 7', music 13']

Francois Couperin liked nice titles - we're listening to The amusements, Sleight of hand and The soul in torment from his Pieces for Harpsichord.

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Raucous fun alongside the deep and meaningful, Three Places in New England is challenging, confusing, complex, silly and surprising music that leaves me baffled but smiling and moved too! A hundred years old but way ahead of its time from one of America's first great composers, Charles Ives.

Listening time 28mins (10' intro, 18' music)

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Listening time c32 mins [8' podcast, 24'  music]

Listen to the the music here on youtube or spotify

and also here with pictures, played by the same Italians (the fabulous and fabulously titled Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Roma and their conductor Antonio Pappano) or this awesome band of 18s and under, the National Youth Orchestra of GB(&NI)

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Essential Christmas listening to bring joy to the word!

For the original Tchaikovsky Nutcracker check out Episode 50 of Cacophony 

Music on Youtube or Spotify

Listening time 38 mins [8' podcast, 30'  music]

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You almost certainly won't have heard this great piece or have heard of its writer. I certainly hadn't. Henriëtte Bosman's wrote her Concert Piece for violin and orchestra for her fiancé. He died before he could play it, and in her grief she couldn't compose any more. Then the war and Nazi occupation of Amsterdam cut short her career as a performer too.

I'm joined by my friend, violinist Marina Solarek, who tells us the story of an amazing woman, her intense and passionate concerto, and why it's still so hard to hear great music by women composers. ...And the great music shows us that we're missing out.

Music on Youtube or Spotify

Listening time 36 mins [18' each, podcast and music]

Marina's group, the Solarek Piano Trio, dedicates itself to the lives of extraordinary composers who happen to be women. Check them out!

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It's loud, exciting, brilliant and I love it.

Listening time: 21 mins (into 6'; music 15')

Music for part 3 on youtube with pictures (18 mins), or Spotify.

or the whole Fantastic Symphony: youtube or Spotify.

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Listening time: 22 mins (into 4'; music 18')

Music on youtube with pictures (18 mins), or Spotify.

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Listening time: 31 mins (into 9.5'; music 21')

Music on youtube with pictures (first 22mins), or Spotify.

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Listen [and watch] on youtube 

or Spotify 

Listening time 43mins (7 'intro, 36' music)

I don't really like using old pictures of composers, but when we're playing music by women, who are entirely new to us and aren't just another dead white guy (with or without a wig) it seems appropriate! 

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Listening time: 23 mins [Intro podcast 7', Music 16']

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Listening time =24 mins (Intro 5' plus second half of symphony 18')

Music here (2nd half of symphony only) on Youtube (sound only) or Spotify

or the whole piece of music here on Youtube or Spotify

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Listening time =35 mins (Intro 7' plus first half of symphony 28')

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Music here on youtube - we're listening to the first 27 minutes - but the whole thing is here if you get swept along. Please do!

And on Spotify

Listening time: 35mins [Intro podcast 8', Music 27']

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Listening time: 26mins [Intro podcast 5', Music 21']

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Her life was extraordinary in any era and her music is timeless, moving and special.

Listening time = 17mins (intro 7', music 10')

This episode's music here on Youtube 

or here on Spotify

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Listening time = 34mins (intro conversation 14', music 20')

Music here, in the live performance we speak about:

https://youtu.be/LHjbRMIIhuM

or on Spotify

Find out more about the guest, my friend, conductor, presenter and coach, Jason Lai.

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Music here on Youtube or Spotify.

Listening time c16 mins (Intro podcast 4', music 12')

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Listening time =  14 mins (5' podcast, 9' music)

Music here, with pictures, from a recent production from London's Royal Opera House.

Or here with just music on Spotify

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Total listen: 35 mins (Intro podcast 7',  great music 28')

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Total listen time: c14mins (5 mins intro plus 8/9' music)

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Live concert performance with video here on Youtube

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The resulting Cuban Overture became an instant hit.

Total listening time c14 mins (3'30" podcast, 10' music)

The music:

There’s a fab concert performance on Youtube, with the Teresa Carreño Symphony Orchestra - one of Venezuela's top youth orchestras, playing with great style - check out the easy enjoyment of the percussionists. Youth Orchestras and classical music are a big deal in Venezuela, using music as a vehicle for social change in disadvantaged communities, thanks to a system (actually called The System - El Sistema) which has now been copied across the world.

My Spotify recommendation is the Dallas Symphony Orchestra conducted by AndrewLitton

The 1930s Cuban hit, Echale salsita by Septeto Naconal De Ignacio Pineiro is on youtube too.

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https://youtu.be/kYr17m7mnM8

Total listen time 36mins [podcast plus music]

I talk about all this with my pal, Lev Parikian.

Music here:

Though the "overture" gets played in concerts, it doesn't really exist as a thing that gets recorded! Mostly people record a suite - giving you more of Korngold's great music...

So here are my recommendations:

I've selected my favourite bits (all the stuff Lev and I talked about) on Spotify:

Top conductor Vladimir Jurowski has made a suite of his favourite bits and it's here on Youtube:

complete with clips from the film and the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia.

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If you've not heard any Cacophony, start with The Trailer!

...and then pick an episode and dive right in!

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Trailer music from:

Richard Strauss's opera: Elektra, Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, Sergei Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

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His Cello Sonata is a terrific piece, and I love it much more than his famous piano concertos.

 Music here.

or here on Spotify

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Music here: https://youtu.be/6Kpytem6nX4

or on spotify: https://spoti.fi/2ZrjlPu

Listening time 31' total - but won't feel long at all!

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Debussy led the way and his piano pieces Pagodas and Gardens in the rain are fabulous pieces of aural picture painting.

No separate music on this episode - it's in the podcast, played by François-Joël Thiollier, piano. The gamelan music is Ladrang Wilujeng, slendro manyura specially recorded for Cacophony by Southbank Gamelan Players, with thanks to Southbank Centre.

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Short, punchy, joy-filled, playful, brilliant!

This is the intro to the 2nd half of the piece.

Total listen time - 15 mins

Music here:

https://youtu.be/9-f3iKeUJm4?t=777

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Short, punchy, joy-filled, playful, brilliant!

Music here: https://youtu.be/9-f3iKeUJm4

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It's a great piece for a dance around your living room!

Music here:

https://youtu.be/KtkkD9maPSw?t=5960

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Music here: https://youtu.be/gexnIbK-pJA

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Dynamic yet static,

Hypnotic yet energising

The brilliant combination of tuned percussion instruments and the genius of Steve Reich in his Mallet Quartet

Music here: https://youtu.be/uH9ku-52PUA

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and here - a must watch: https://youtu.be/khOfSVULtsU, Courtesy of Twosetviolin

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...crank up the volume so the floor trembles and don't get so scared you have to hide behind the sofa.

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Total listening time 20 mins

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I've not heard his great music for Othello for 30 years, but have now found a brand new concert performance by the fab orchestra, Chineke! Music here: https://youtu.be/84HZ_fEwD9s

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Music here: https://youtu.be/ZFDrumsjJMk?t=2128 (ending at 46'20" - it's a performance of the complete Four Seasons)

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...with terrific music from Prokofiev.

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Make sure you've listened to Episode 28 before this one (https://bit.ly/cil28)

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