The Joy of Classical Music
Episodes
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 47 - 08-04-2024
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week it’s all about France and we begin with the aria Farewell, Pastourelles from Maurice Ravel's children’s fantasy opera The Child And The ...
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 46 – 01-04-2024
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the final part of our three-part exploration of the American 20th century we play the music of: George and Ira Gershwin Arnold Schoenberg Leonar...
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 46 - 01-04-2024
31 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A radio show and podcast created and first aired at Free FM 89.0, a member of the Community Access Media Alliance Aotearoa/New Zealand. Supported by N...
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 45 - 25-03-2024
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Across the course of the American 20th century composers revelled in the possibilities offered by modernity. They explored the landscape, the social m...
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 44 - 18-03-2024
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Across the course of the 20th century America became the world’s economic and cultural powerhouse and little happened without something of America b...
The Joy of Classical Music - Special – 11-03-2024
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this Joy Of Classical Music Special Puerto-Rican born New York based composer, guitarist and visual artist Gabriel Vicens talks about his new albu...
The Joy of Classical Music- Ep 43 – 04-03-2024
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode opens with the aria Now Grasp Your Daughter from Lou Harrison's 1970 opera Young Caesar. An exploration of the early life of the g...
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 42 - 26-02-2024
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is all about China and to quote Chinese American pianist and academic Hao Huang: “Western classical music wasn’t introduced to the C...
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 41 - 19-02-2024
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week we play music from composers who died in Nazi death camps. Hans Krasa – murdered in the gas chambers at Auschwitz Gideon Klein – exec...
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 40 – 12-02-2024
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week we begin with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and soprano Jane Sheldon performing Eliza’s Aria from the Wild Swans Ballet Suite by Soviet...
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 39 - 05-02-2024
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we open with the aria News Has a Kind of Mystery from the opera Nixon in China by John Luthor Adams, before visiting Franz Shrecker's glorious 1...
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 38 - 29-01-2024
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We open with the aria News Has a Kind of Mystery from the opera Nixon in China by John Luthor Adams before visiting Franz Shrecker's glorious 1900 com...
The Joy of Classical Music – Ep 37 - 19-01-2024
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A radio show and podcast created and first aired at Free FM 89.0, a member of the Community Access Media Alliance Aotearoa/New Zealand. Supported by N...
The Joy Of Classical Music Ep 36 - 15-01-2024
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today we open with an Aria from Aaron Copland’s 1954 opera The Tender Land, we listen to the theme from the highest grossing Hollywood film of 1959,...
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 35 – 08-01-2024
08 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We kick off this week's episode with a glorious aria from Japanese composer Ikuma Dan’s opera Twilight Heron before diving deep into an eclectic mix...
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 34 - 01-01-2024
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode is all about the legendary American avant-garde composer John Cage. We listen to his music and music from those friends, pupils and as...
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 33 - 25-12-2023
25 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today's focus is on German composer Hans Werner Henze and his symphony No.3 but not before we touch base with Caroline Shaw, an aria from French opera...
The Joy Of Classical Music Ep 32 - 18-12-2023
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we are listening to the music of two extraordinary composers - Lili Boulanger and Vítězslava Kaprálová. Both died aged 25 but not before...
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 31 – 11-12-2023
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we open with an aria from The Bartered Bride, a comic opera where true love prevails over social ambition, we visit the battlefields of 13th...
The Joy Of Classical Music Ep 30 - 04-12-2023
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week it’s all about the Czech Republic. Of course an hour long episode only provides enough space for a meagre snapshot of one nation's musical...
The Joy Of Classical Music Ep 29 - 27-11-2023
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
And somehow we are back in Finland again and this time it's all about the Kalevala, that nation's national epic, which we explore through two composit...
The Joy Of Classical Music Ep 28 - 20-11-2023
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
1935 Pirate Film Captain Blood, the world's most performed Mexican orchestral work, an evisceration of the British class system and then there's Arsen...
The Joy Of Classical Music Ep 27 - 13-11-2023
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Among our usual eclectic mix is Joan Tower's one movement orchestral work Made In America, which draws its inspiration from the song America The Beaut...
The Joy Of Classical Music Ep 26 - 06-11-2023
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After two weeks in Finland and two further weeks in Australia we are back to our usual eclectic musical mix. Starting in Norway we tarry for a while i...
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 25 – 30-10-2023
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the second part of our journey across Australia we visit the Kakadu National Park, visit the set of a Hitchcock movie and explore the influence of ...
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 24 – 23-10-2023
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week and next it's all about Australia. We start at Cloudstreet in Perth, the setting for the 2016 operatic adaptation of Tim Winton's revered 19...
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 23 – 16-10-2023
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Finland spends $91 per person per year on art and culture and it shows. While NZ, a nation of similar size, population and GDP supports five professio...
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 22 - 09-10-2023
08 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2019, 174 composers were invited by the BBC's Music Magazine to select the greatest living composers and of the three selected, one was Kaija Saari...
The Joy Of Classical Music Ep 21 - 02-10-2023
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There's a trip to the movies with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, some ground-breaking acoustic-electrictronica courtesy of Kiwi composer Douglas Lilburn, a plea...
The Joy Of Classical Music Ep 20 - 25-09-2023
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, Indian classical collides with Western Classical then there's the word that shall not be spoken, the title of a composition by the...
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 19- 18-09-2023
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From the grim depths of Soviet Russia to the bright tropical rainforests of Hawaii, birds are a bit of a theme today with the now extinct Hawaiian Kau...
The Joy Of Classical Music Ep 18 - 11-09-2023
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
From Wales to Poland to Japan to France to the USA. It's an international affair that explores art song, film scores, the classics and the not so clas...
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 15 – 05-09-2023
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We conclude our three-part celebration of women composers with NZ composer Janet Jennings who talks about her life and two works, A Daughter of Eve an...
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 17 – 04-09-2023
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ep 17 Jeremy Mayall Part 2 1. Jeremy Mayall - Space Time Continuum 2. Flutter - Composed by Jeremy Mayall, lyrics by Shoshana Sachi, sung by Julia B...
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 16 - 28-08-2023
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Mayall Interview Part One Track 1. Kia Eke Panuku from the album AWE by Horomona Horo and Jeremy Mayall Track 2. Jeremy Mayall - Fourteen Mo...
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 14 - 21-08-2023
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our celebration of Women in Music continues 1. Soprano Dawn Upshaw performs Tania Leons Mothers Prayer 2. Everything You Need to Know about Florence...
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 13 – 14-08-2023
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As I have been putting this series together I find myself endlessly grateful to Wikipedia and YouTube for their vast archives, especially YouTube whos...
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 12 - 07-08-2023
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We start in Quebec with a rock band, pass through Japan and end in Estonia with an often overlooked genius. On the way there is the usual eclectic mix...
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 11 – 31-07-2023
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are back to our eclectic journeying and today’s adventures include New Zealand and Wolastoq Tribal territory in Eastern Canada and take in Einste...
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 10 – 24-07-2023
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Classical music is dynamic and constantly evolving, building on what has gone before while pressing forward in search of new territory and with that i...
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 9 – 10-07-2023
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We continue our exploration of that strange and exhilarating landscape where Classical meets Jazz. 1. The Swingle Singers performing Prelude no.11 ...
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 8 – 03-07-2023
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For today’s episode and the next we explore that strange and wondrous landscape where Classical meets Jazz. 1. The Swingle Singers perform Bach 2...
The Joy Of Classical Music Ep 7 – 26-06-2023
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today we begin our travels in 4th century Byzantium take in Austria, France, Russia, Italy and on the way there much strangeness, wonder and beauty to...
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 6 – 19-06-2023
19 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s journey includes 16th century England,19th century Italy with a diversion to the Planet of the Apes before Ethiopia and the Baltic sea. On o...
The Joy Of Classical Music Ep 5 – 12-06-2023
11 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We start today’s adventures in Baroque England before visiting Ukraine, France, New Zealand and finishing up in Appalachia. Art songs, symphonies, p...
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 4 – 05-06-2023
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In today’s episode we begin in Ukraine pass through Hollywood, Russia and medieval Germany and on the way touch on the art songs, film scores, scare...
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 3 – 29-05-2023
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode travel from Renaissance Italy to contemporary New York and on the way touch on opera, the avant-garde, film score music, electronica a...
The Joy of Classical Music Ep 2 – 22-05-2023
22 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode travel from Renaissance Italy to contemporary New York and on the way touch on opera, the avant-garde, film score music, electronica a...