Classical Fix

Classical Fix

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Classical Fix episodes

  • Emma Dabiri

    Guest presenter Linton Stephens hosts a new series of Classical Fix, introducing music-loving guests to classical music. This week Linton is joined by author and broadcaster Emma Dabiri.

    Emma's playlist:

    JS Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor

    William Grant Still - Symphony no.1 (1st movement)
    Chiquinha Gonzaga - Agua do Vintem
    Pamela Z - Badagada
    Henry Ecccles - Double Bass Sonata (1st movement)
    Jonathan Dove - 'Departure' from Airport Scenes

    Classical Fix is a podcast aimed at opening up the world of classical music to anyone who fancies giving it a go. Each week, Linton mixes a bespoke playlist for his guest, who then joins him to share their impressions of their new classical discoveries. Linton Stephens is a bassoonist with the Chineke! Orchestra and has also performed with the BBC Philharmonic, Halle Orchestra and Opera North, amongst many others.

    29 min
  • Cheddar Gorgeous

    Guest presenter Linton Stephens hosts a new series of Classical Fix, introducing music-loving guests to classical music. This week Linton is joined by drag artist and star of Channel 4's Drag SOS, Cheddar Gorgeous.

    Cheddar's playlist:

    Ferenc Farkas - Old Hungarian Dances of the 17th Century (5th movement)

    Caroline Shaw - Partita for 8 Singers (3rd movement 'Courante')
    Joe Hisaishi - The Legend of Ashitaka
    Francesca Caccini - Ciaccona
    Tchaikovsky - Symphony no.4 in F minor (2nd movement)
    Dan Locklair - The Breakers Pound (3rd movement 'Rag')

    Classical Fix is a podcast aimed at opening up the world of classical music to anyone who fancies giving it a go. Each week, Linton mixes a bespoke playlist for his guest, who then joins him to share their impressions of their new classical discoveries. Linton Stephens is a bassoonist with the Chineke! Orchestra and has also performed with the BBC Philharmonic, Halle Orchestra and Opera North, amongst many others.

    29 min
  • Jack Guinness

    Guest presenter Linton Stephens hosts a new series of Classical Fix, introducing music-loving guests to classical music. This week, Linton is joined by writer, model, presenter and founder of the Queer Bible, Jack Guinness.

    Jack's playlist:

    Jean Baptiste Lully - Le Divertissement Royal de Versailles

    Wendy Carlos - Afterlife
    Francis Poulenc - Sonata for 2 Clarinets
    Gavin Higgins - Dark Arteries: These Scars Across Your Heart
    Samuel Barber - String Quartet in B Major (Adagio)
    Ethel Smyth - The March of the Women (from Songs of Sunrise)

    Classical Fix is a podcast aimed at opening up the world of classical music to anyone who fancies giving it a go. Each week, Linton mixes a bespoke playlist for his guest, who then joins him to share their impressions of their new classical discoveries. Linton Stephens is a bassoonist with the Chineke! Orchestra and has also performed with the BBC Philharmonic, Halle Orchestra and Opera North, amongst many others.

    30 min
  • Sian Eleri

    Guest presenter Linton Stephens hosts a new series of Classical Fix, introducing music-loving guests to classical music. This week Linton is joined by Sian Eleri, presenter of Radio 1's Chillest Show.

    Sian's playlist:

    Teresa Carreno - Vals Gayo

    Edward Elgar - Where Corals Lie from Sea Pictures
    Eric Whitacre - Sleep (arranged for marimba quartet by Joby Burgess)
    Jean-Philippe Rameau - Zoroastre Overture
    Efrain Oscher - Soledad
    Jean Sibleius - Symphony no.5 (3rd movement)

    Classical Fix is a podcast aimed at opening up the world of classical music to anyone who fancies giving it a go. Each week, Linton mixes a bespoke playlist for his guest, who then joins him to share their impressions of their new classical discoveries. Linton Stephens is a bassoonist with the Chineke! Orchestra and has also performed with the BBC Philharmonic, Halle Orchestra and Opera North, amongst many others.

    30 min
  • Isy Suttie

    Guest presenter Linton Stephens hosts a new series of Classical Fix, introducing music-loving guests to classical music. This week's guest is comedian, actress and writer Isy Suttie, whose new book 'Jane is Trying' comes out in July.

    Isy's playlist:

    Joseph Haydn - String Quartet no.63 in B flat “Sunrise” (2nd mvt)
    Lili Boulanger - D’un matin de printemps
    Steve Reich - Vermont Counterpoint
    Ludovic Lamothe - Album Leaf no.1
    Donnacha Dennehy - Tessellatum (part 1)
    Engelbert Humperdinck - ‘Abends will ich schlafen gehn’ (Evening Prayer) from the opera Hansel and Gretel

    Classical Fix is a podcast aimed at opening up the world of classical music to anyone who fancies giving it a go. Each week, Linton mixes a bespoke playlist for his guest, who then joins him to share their impressions of their new classical discoveries. Linton Stephens is a bassoonist with the Chineke! Orchestra and has also performed with the BBC Philharmonic, Halle Orchestra and Opera North, amongst many others.

    31 min
  • Jeffrey Boakye

    Guest presenter Linton Stephens hosts a new series of Classical Fix, introducing music-loving guests to classical music. This week's guest is author, teacher and journalist Jeffrey Boakye.

    Jeffrey's playlist:

    Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges - Symphony no.2 (3rd mvt)
    Dora Pejačević - Meditation (for violin and piano)
    Felix Mendelssohn - Hebrides Overture
    Tan Dun - Floating Clouds from Eight Memories in Watercolor
    Michael Torke - Bright Blue Music
    Henry Purcell - Dido's lament, When I am laid in earth from Dido and Aeneas

    Classical Fix is a podcast aimed at opening up the world of classical music to anyone who fancies giving it a go. Each week, Linton mixes a bespoke playlist for his guest, who then joins him to share their impressions of their new classical discoveries. Linton Stephens is a bassoonist with the Chineke! Orchestra and has also performed with the BBC Philharmonic, Halle Orchestra and Opera North, amongst many others.

    31 min
  • Nemone

    Guest presenter Linton Stephens hosts a new series of Classical Fix, introducing music-loving guests to classical music. This week's guest is 6 Music DJ, broadcaster and psychotherapist Nemone.

    Nemone's playlist:

    Georg Philipp Telemann - Concerto G Major for 4 violins
    Grażyna Bacewicz - Overture for Symphonic Orchestra
    Daniel Herskedal - Time of Water
    Sergei Rachmaninov - Waltz from Suite No 2 four two pianos
    Nathalie Joachim - Madan Bellegarde
    Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

    Classical Fix is a podcast aimed at opening up the world of classical music to anyone who fancies giving it a go. Each week, Linton mixes a bespoke playlist for his guest, who then joins him to share their impressions of their new classical discoveries. Linton Stephens is a bassoonist with the Chineke! Orchestra and has also performed with the BBC Philharmonic, Halle Orchestra and Opera North, amongst many others.

    31 min
  • Valerie June

    Jules Buckley mixes classical playlists for music-loving guests. If you fancy giving classical music a go, start here. This week, Jules is joined by American singer-songwriter Valerie June.

    Classical Fix is a podcast aimed at opening up the world of classical music to anyone who fancies giving it a go. Jules Buckley is a Grammy-winning conductor, arranger and composer who pushes the boundaries of almost all musical genres by placing them in an orchestral context, and has earned himself a reputation as a 'pioneering genre alchemist' and 'agitator of musical convention'. He leads two of the world’s most versatile and in-demand orchestras - the Heritage Orchestra and the Metropole Orkest - and over the past nine years he has been responsible for some of the most groundbreaking BBC Proms, including the Ibiza Prom, 1Xtra's Grime Symphony, The Songs of Scott Walker, Jacob Collier and Friends, and tributes to Quincy Jones, Nina Simone and Charles Mingus. In 2019, Jules joined the BBC Symphony Orchestra as Creative Artist in Association.

    30 min
  • Dan Searle (Architects)

    Jules Buckley mixes classical playlists for music-loving guests. If you fancy giving classical music a go, start here. This week, Jules is joined Dan Searle - drummer, songwriter and founder member of the metalcore band, Architects.

    Dan's playlist:

    Alexander Mosolov - The Iron Foundry

    Howard Skempton - Lento
    Nicolò Paganini - Caprice no.5 in A minor (from 24 Caprices)
    Philip Glass - Opening (from Glassworks), reworked by Max Cooper and Bruce Brubaker
    La Comtessa de Die - Estât ai en greu cossirier
    Igor Stravinsky - Finale from the Firebird

    Classical Fix is a podcast aimed at opening up the world of classical music to anyone who fancies giving it a go. Jules Buckley is a Grammy-winning conductor, arranger and composer who pushes the boundaries of almost all musical genres by placing them in an orchestral context, and has earned himself a reputation as a 'pioneering genre alchemist' and 'agitator of musical convention'. He leads two of the world’s most versatile and in-demand orchestras - the Heritage Orchestra and the Metropole Orkest - and over the past nine years he has been responsible for some of the most groundbreaking BBC Proms, including the Ibiza Prom, 1Xtra's Grime Symphony, The Songs of Scott Walker, Jacob Collier and Friends, and tributes to Quincy Jones, Nina Simone and Charles Mingus. In 2019, Jules joined the BBC Symphony Orchestra as Creative Artist in Association.

    31 min
  • Tamara Lindeman

    Jules Buckley mixes classical playlists for music-loving guests. This week, Jules is joined by Canadian singer-songwriter Tamara Lindeman aka The Weather Station.

    Tamara's playlist:

    Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Violin Sonata in C minor (2nd mvt)

    Anna von Hausswolff - Theatre of Nature
    Erik Satie - Sylvie (from 3 melodies)
    Arnold Schoenberg - Verklarte Nacht (4th mvt)
    Gerard Pesson/Brahms - Nebenstuck [after Johannes Brahms]
    David Gamper/Deep Listening Band - Deep Hockets

    Classical Fix is a podcast aimed at opening up the world of classical music to anyone who fancies giving it a go. Jules Buckley is a Grammy-winning conductor, arranger and composer who pushes the boundaries of almost all musical genres by placing them in an orchestral context, and has earned himself a reputation as a 'pioneering genre alchemist' and 'agitator of musical convention'. He leads two of the world’s most versatile and in-demand orchestras - the Heritage Orchestra and the Metropole Orkest - and over the past nine years he has been responsible for some of the most groundbreaking BBC Proms, including the Ibiza Prom, 1Xtra's Grime Symphony, The Songs of Scott Walker, Jacob Collier and Friends, and tributes to Quincy Jones, Nina Simone and Charles Mingus. In 2019, Jules joined the BBC Symphony Orchestra as Creative Artist in Association.

    31 min

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