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Joanna Lumley & The Maestro Bauer Media
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4.7 • 180 Ratings
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Joanna Lumley and her husband Stephen Barlow invite you into their home for a fascinating, funny journey into their shared love of music.
You probably know Joanna Lumley, but you may not be aware that her husband Stephen Barlow is a famed conductor, composer and musician - and the pair of them are passionate about classical music. On this, their new podcast, the pair welcome you into their home for a personal, fascinating and funny journey through a musical world.
Joanna is the enthusiastic amateur - asking the questions she’s always wanted to ask - and Stephen is The Maestro, providing the answers. Who was better: Mozart or Beethoven? Why do certain pieces of music make us feel a certain way? What do conductors actually do? They also discuss the great composers and symphonies, and the often-remarkable stories behind them, all delivered in Joanna and Stephen’s unique, engaging and affectionate way.
Maybe you think classical music isn’t for you? Or you know a little and want to know more? Or perhaps it's been a lifetime love? Regardless, you definitely need to meet Joanna & The Maestro.
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What Does A Conductor Do?
Joanna Lumley has a few questions about her husband’s profession. As well as being a composer and pianist, Stephen Barlow is a conductor - but what does that actually mean? What is it that a conductor actually does? Do they set the speed of the music? How long have they been around for? Are they really needed at all? In this episode Stephen answers these questions and takes us behind the velvet curtain into the backstage life of the conductor.
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Mozart or Beethoven?
It’s the battle of the heavyweights! Stephen couldn’t live without Mozart, while Joanna thinks Beethoven is the most sublime composer who ever lived. In this episode we get to the bottom of an age-old debate, who’s better: Mozart or Beethoven? From ‘Figaro’ to ‘Fidelio’, Joanna and Stephen get to grips with the operas, masses, serenades and symphonies of these two classical behemoths.
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The Music Room
Why does music make us feel such emotion? Joanna Lumley and her husband Stephen Barlow invite you into their music room to discuss the big questions of life, music and marriage. In this first episode we take a tour through the music which shaped their childhoods in England and South-East Asia. For Stephen, this meant falling in love with Wagner’s ‘Das Rheingold’ and rocking out to Led Zep. For Joanna, it meant pastoral symphonies on the wind up gramophone in the jungles of Malaya.
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Joanna Lumley and her husband Stephen Barlow invite you into their home for a fascinating, funny journey into their shared love of music.
Customer Reviews
Little slice of heaven
You’ve helped me conjure up my lovely parents again, thank you for all the small digestible slices of classical musical. It’s heavenly and not intimidating. Can you do a pod on classical music and composition in film? What instruments lend themselves to film music and what a composer has to think about when creating a score for theatre / drama and movies? X
Refreshing
Have listened from the start and look forward each weeks topic. I love how you relate to each other, which makes for easy listening. I am learning more by listening to this podcast than I ever did at school!
So it’s not just waving one’s arms about! 😁
As a guitarist of the blues/punk/folk variety I’m well aware my knowledge of the classical idiom is, well…lacking to say the least. This podcast is teaching me so much! I’d thoroughly recommend, if like me, you’re somewhat of a classical dunce, that you give it a listen. Thank you Joanna and thank you Mastro