CACOPHONY: GREAT CLASSICAL MUSIC

It's Cacophony …at the Women’s Football World Cup! A glorious celebration of music from around the world, all written by women, and chosen specially for Cacophony by leading female musicians.

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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Cacophony/ Women's World Cup of Classical Music logo created by Vanessa and Emmie Thomas.

It's Cacophony …at the Women’s Football World Cup! A glorious celebration of music from around the world, all written by women, and chosen specially for Cacophony by leading female musicians.

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

What do you think? Leave a comment or easy voice-message at Cacophonyonline.com

If you can, please consider making a donation to support Cacophony at Ko-fi.com. If you'd like particularly to support female composers, or sponsor Switzerland - leave an appropriate message!

Please share the podcast with everyone you think would enjoy this - and come back for more next time.

Thanks for listening!

Cacophony/ Women's World Cup of Classical Music logo created by Vanessa and Emmie Thomas.

By turns grand and genial with moments of great inventiveness and wit, Louise Farrenc's Nonet for wind and strings is a bit of magic!

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!

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

If you’d like to support Cacophony there are easy, great, ways:  

– help with the costs of running it (and me) with a one-off contribution  or with a regular payment at ko-fi.com. https://ko-fi.com/cacophonyonline

– share this episode with someone you know

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Meeting his boss's insatiable desire for new content 'forced' [his word] Joseph Haydn to write original, inventive music that sounds as fresh and full of life today as when it was written. And he wrote so much great music that I only heard this piano trio for the first time this week - and it's wonderful stuff.

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

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

If you’d like to support Cacophony there are easy, great, ways:  

– help with the costs of running it (and me) with a one-off contribution  or with a regular payment at ko-fi.com. https://ko-fi.com/cacophonyonline

– share this episode with someone you know

– share the 100 second trailer: http://cacophonyonline.com/trailer

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More episodes at: www.cacophonyonline.com/  

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110 years ago in Paris, Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring caused a furore and changed music forever. Did the police have to be called? It's still a piece that shocks and stuns and is filled with something amazing every second.

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.

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

If you’d like to support Cacophony there are easy, great, ways:  

– help with the costs of running it (and me) with a one-off contribution  or with a regular payment at ko-fi.com. https://ko-fi.com/cacophonyonline

– share this episode with someone you know

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A rarity from Wales (a Welsh rare-bit?), Grace Williams's orchestral piece Penillion surprises, delights and has an epic grandeur. It's terrific stuff and I think you'll love it!

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

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

If you’d like to support Cacophony there are easy, great, ways:  

– help with the costs of running it (and me) with a one-off contribution  or with a regular payment at ko-fi.com. https://ko-fi.com/cacophonyonline

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Another great, short piece, here's the first of Joan Tower's Fanfares celebrating risk-taking and adventurous women. This is both celebratory and substantial, plus a workout for brass and percussion.

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.

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

If you’d like to support Cacophony there are easy, great, ways:

– help with the costs of running it (and me) with a one-off contribution  or with a regular payment at ko-fi.com. https://ko-fi.com/cacophonyonline

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A short podcast about the shortest of pieces, yet Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man still packs a punch and seems to point to big issues.

'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.

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

If you’d like to support Cacophony there are easy, great, ways:

– help with the costs of running it (and me) with a one-off contribution  or with a regular payment at ko-fi.com: https://ko-fi.com/cacophonyonline

– share this episode with someone you know

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More episodes at: www.cacophonyonline.com/

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Often on the edge, in life and music, Beethoven goes to extremes on the piano to show us the extreme depth of his feelings. His Appassionata Sonata is every bit as intense as its name suggests! Listening time 33 mins (podcast 10', music 23')

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!

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

If you’d like to support Cacophony there are easy, great, ways:

– help with the costs of running it (and me) with a one-off contribution  or with a regular payment at ko-fi.com: https://ko-fi.com/cacophonyonline

– share this episode with someone you know

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More episodes at: www.cacophonyonline.com/

Thanks for listening!

Lost for 150 years and then, because it was so good, presumed to have been written by her brother, Fanny Mendelssohn's Easter Sonata for piano is passionate, intense, lyrical and dramatic... and the story of its rediscovery is no less compelling.

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.

If you’d like to support Cacophony there are easy, great, ways:

– help with the costs of running it (and me) with a one-off contribution  or with a regular payment at ko-fi.com (https://ko-fi.com/cacophonyonline)

– share this episode with someone you know

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– subscribe/ review and keep listening!

More episodes at: www.cacophonyonline.com/

Thanks for listening!