The film may not have aged well but William Walton's music for Shakespeare's Henry V is a fresh as ever and some of it was written in the 1400s!

Music here :https://youtu.be/RI6ChQJSCJI

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was a black mixed race Victorian/Edwardian Londoner.

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

[First 17mins of the video. Music plus intro podcast is 23 mins]

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...Not for Vivaldi His summer is all oppressive heat, flies and sudden storms; brilliantly realised in music that's short, intense and too hot to handle.

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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This is perhaps great classical music at its purest - intense, dramatic, invigorating, uplifting - Brahms 'Tragic Overture'

Music here: https://bit.ly/2TRBq74

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[17 mins intro and music]

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There's a big party at the palace for the prince and you're invited. So is Cinderella, but she's got a curfew...

...with terrific music from Prokofiev.

Music here: https://youtu.be/Xs2Ffdt7e_c

Music and intro = 31mins

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Mussorgsky's Night on Bare Mountain is an entirely different piece without the tidying up of his friends - raw, savage, gripping.

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

Music here: https://youtu.be/tu1no7hOlSs

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Get swept away on magical adventures, and let Rimsky-Korsakov fire up your imagination with this music from Sheherezade - thrilling and uplifting!

Music here: https://youtu.be/sATNiVGgwts and here on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2ycsu4K

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Give yourself a fright with a witches party on Bald Mountain! Scary stuff:

Music here: https://youtu.be/52iOdAVU4C8

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Hard to play, a lot of fun, a huge noise! John Adams sums up his own music nicely and this is a modern great to leave you uplifted and exhausted.

Music here: https://youtu.be/5LoUm_r7It8

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This is punchy music that still swings and sings and sends an energising message of optimism and generosity of spirit... though the composers claims would have been more modest.

Music here: https://youtu.be/LXgeRS4i4ME

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