The Joy of Classical Music

Andrew Johnstone
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Exploring classical music in all its glories and complexities. From the sweetest melodic to the cutting edge of the avant-garde... from the deep past to the freshest contemporary. All of it. The joy of classical music.

  1. 4h ago

    Ep 158 - New Adventures in Music 6

    We open with guitarist Sara Reichert and close with Forward into Light, the title track from composer Sarah Kirkland Snider’s new album, Forward into Light. In between, we traverse a universe of new music by women. Sara d'Ippolito Reichert performs Ida Presti - Danse Rythmique Anne Vanschothorst - A Harp Note to Emily Dickinson Barbara Hannigan performs Hildegard von Bingen - O virga mediatrix (Arr. for Soprano, Pianos and Electronic by David Chalmin) The Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and Esther Abrami perform Ina Boyle - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (To the memory of my mother) Anne Vanschothorst - I Haven't Told My Garden Yet Metropolis Ensemble perform Sarah Kirkland Snider - Forward Into Light

    1 hr

  2. Jun 1

    The Joy of Classical Music - Ep 157 - Strange Dreams Part 2

    This week, it’s more from the strange realms of unreality and the featured work is electronic pioneer Delia Derbyshire’s Invention for Radio No. 1: The Dreams, a work that sets recorded interviews of people describing their dreams against an electronic soundscape. Stephen Drury performs John Cage - Dream The Eric Whitacre Singers perform Eric Whitacre - Sleep Delia Derbyshire - Invention for Radio No.1: The Dreams

    58 min

  3. May 27

    The Joy of Classical Music - Ep 156 - Strange Dreams Part 1

    Strange Dreams Part 1 Dreams have long provided fertile inspiration for composers and over the next two episode I’ll be playing music inspired by those strange dimensions of unreality where the fortunate might find a truer sense of themselves. Ann Crumb performs George Crumb - The Sleeper. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales performs Toru Takemitsu - Dreamtime. Chen Yao - The Moon over the West River: The World Is But a Great Dream. New England Conservatory Philharmonia performs Gunther Schuller - Dreamscape. Lahti Symphony Orchestra performs Einojuhani Rautavaara - Piano Concerto No. 3: Gift of Dreams.

    1h 6m

  4. May 18

    Ep 155 - Ukraine's Glory Has Not Perished

    This episode of the Joy of Classical Music speaks to the resilience of the Ukrainian people in the face of 250 years of Russian aggression and oppression. The featured composition is Valentyn Bibik’s Cry and Prayer, a work of memory dedicated to the victims of the Holodomor. The Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra perform Mykhailo Verbytsky - Ukraine’s glory has not perished. The Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra perform Myroslav Skoryk - The High Pass: Melody Violinist Solomia Soroka and Pianist Arthur Greene perform Yevhen Stankovych - Ukrainian Poem The Crimean Chamber Choir Perform Mykola Leontovych - Shchedryk The National Choir of Ukraine perform Yevhen Stankovych — Prophet from Passions for Taras National Academic Ukrainian Folk Choir perform Taras Shevchenko - My Thoughts Lviv National Opera performs Yevhen Stankovych - Earth, Give your Blessing from Folk Opera When The Fern Blooms. Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus perform Mykola Lysenko - Prayer for Ukraine The Academic Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine perform Valentyn Bibik — Cry and Prayer

    1h 4m

  5. May 11

    The Joy of Classical Music - Ep 154 - New Adventures in Music 5

    New Adventures in Music is a series within a series devoted to the thrill of musical discovery and the joy of listening. This week, there’s two new releases from Harmonia Mundi - Zachary Wilder’s Brooklyn Suite and The Toronto Symphony Orchestra: Béla Bartók and from that album, we’re featuring The Miraculous Mandarin, a controversial work that banned for decades across much of Europe. There’s also a song about Ruth Bader Ginsberg and composer Francis Poulenc’s amazing Concerto for Clarinet and Piano, a work that was commissioned by big band leader and clarinetist Beeny Goodman in 1962. Zachary Wilder performs Franz Schubert - Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795, Op. 25: No. 4, Danksagung an den Bach. Zachary Wilder performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492: Giunse alfin il momento — La clemenza di tito, K. 621: Ah, grazie si rendono. David Shifrin and Robert Blocker perform Francis Poulenc - Sonata for Clarinet and Piano. Patrice Michaels performs Dissenter of de Universe. 5 Opinions and a Comment. The Toronto Symphony Orchestra performs Bella Bartok - The Miraculous Mandarin.

    1h 4m

  6. May 4

    Ep 153 - Henryk Gorecki Symphony No.3

    This week I am doing something I have only ever done once before, devoting a whole episode to one piece of music - Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No.3. I’ll be playing the 1992 Nonesuch recording, which Robin Hilton, host of NPR’s All Songs Considered, described as revealing the "soul of the universe" in a "wondrous way”. Nonesuch Selects: Flea talking about Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No.3. Robert Greenberg - Music as a Mirror of History - Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 3 Nonesuch Selects: Sarah Kirkland Snider talks about Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No.3 The London Sinfonietta, conducted by David Zinman with soprano Dawn Upshaw perform Henryk Górecki - Symphony No. 3.

    1h 5m

  7. Apr 27

    Ep 152 - New Adventures in Music 4

    New Adventures in Music is a series within a series devoted to the thrill of musical discovery and the joy of listening. This week we have three new and recent releases as well as a tribute to French electronic music pioneer, the composer Éliane Radigue, who died on the 23rd of February this year. The episodes featured work episodes is her 1983 magnetic tape composition Elimination of Desires but keep an ear out for Vietnamese-American composer Viet Cuong’s joyful 3 movement concerto - Re(new)al. Yang Bao - The Riddle Albany Symphony and Sandbox Percussion perform Viet Cuong - Re(new)al: I - Hydro, Re(new)al: 2 - Wind, Re(new)al: 3 - Solar. Gilda Lyons and Robert Frankenberry perform gather-summon offering from Magic and Desire: Songs of Intimate Connections Yang Bao - Human and I Éliane Radigue - Elimination of Desires

    53 min

  8. Apr 20

    Ep 151 - Cloud Illusions - Part 3

    This week, it’s cloud music from The Land of the Long White White Cloud. Jian Liu performs David Hamilton - Clouds Over Aoraki. The NZ Trio perform Jenny McLeod - Clouds Nick Nock - Land Of The Long White Cloud Gillian Whitehead: Clouds Over Mata-au Ross Harris - Dark Clouds Gillian Rivers, Ciaran Wright, Hunter Craig, and Josh Meads perform John Rimmer - Clouds over Pirongia The Florida State Percussion Ensemble perform John Psathas - Cloud Folk

    59 min
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Exploring classical music in all its glories and complexities. From the sweetest melodic to the cutting edge of the avant-garde... from the deep past to the freshest contemporary. All of it. The joy of classical music.

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  • Creator
    Andrew Johnstone
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    159
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © (C)Free FM
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    The Joy of Classical Music

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