The Classical Music Pod

The boys profile the new Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries, lay bare one of classical music’s most flagrant pick pockets and polish up a rough diamond by Italian Baroque composer Antonio Caldara.

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Music referenced:
‘Tim and Sam’s Podcast’ written and performed by Harry Sever
Haydn’s Symphony No. 104, Mov. 1
Schumann’s Symphony No. 2 in C major
The Trio Sonata from Bach’s A Musical Offering
Beethoven’s ‘Nimm sie hin denn, diese Lieder’ from An die ferne Geliebte
Antonio Caldara’s Stabat Mater, performed by The Sixteen
Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater

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Sam and Tim return from their summer break with a new season of classical shenanigans. Kicking things off is an interview with organist, conductor, broadcaster and all-round musical superstar Anna Lapwood. She discusses her latest release for solo organ, Images, recorded at Ely Cathedral, as well as the role of secular music in church services and the mixing of boy and girl choristers.

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Music referenced:
Images by Owain Park, performed by Anna Lapwood
‘Sunday Morning’ and ‘Dawn’ from Benjamin Britten’s Four Sea Interludes, arranged and performed by Anna Lapwood
The Andante from Debussy’s String Quartet, arranged and performed by Anna Lapwood
Olivier Messiaen’s Vocalise-Interlude, arranged and performed by Anna Lapwood
‘And with His stripes we are healed’ from Handel’s Messiah Part II
‘Kyrie’ from Mozart’s Requiem
An Occasional Trumpet Voluntary by Patrick Gowers, performed by Anna Lapwood

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In today’s episode: Mendelssohn’s concert overture ‘The Hebrides’ goes under the microscope, Tim unwraps the musical history of the Olympic Games and Sam chats to Andrew Moore, Head of Music at the Edinburgh International Festival.

Listen along with the score of the ‘Hebrides’ overture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJt8nW2sURE

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Music referenced;
’Colourful’, produced by Ryosuke Imai, UTA, Sunny Boy and Jun
’Mentre dormi’ from Vivaldi’s L’Olimpiade, performed by Christopher Lowrey and Voices of Music
’Olympische Hymne’ (‘Olympic Hymn’) by Richard Strauss
Dmitri Shostakovich’s Festive Overture in A Major, performed by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra under Yuri Temirkanov
George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue
Mendelssohn’s ‘The Hebrides’ performed by Wilhelm Furtwangler and the Berlin Philharmonic
Ornette Coleman’s ‘Lonely Woman’

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Tim chats to composer Laura Bowler about her latest piece, Houses Slide, while Sam re-writes the libretto for Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas.

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This week Tim quizzes the people's percussionist, Joby Burgess, on flam rudiments, Sam presents a medium-sized Fleabag slam – and they don't quite hear the first piece of classical music sold on the blockchain.

The ‘Tosca’ scene from Quantum of Solace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFx7hEt940c 

Listen to Joby Burgess’s second Pioneers of Percussion EP here: https://www.highresaudio.com/en/album/view/yzctv3/joby-burgess-pioneers-of-percussion-vol-2

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Music referenced:

The Lichtenstein national anthem, ‘Oben am jungen Rhein’
Bob Dylan’s ‘Like a Rolling Stone’
’Wellerman (Sea Shanty / 220 KID x Billen Ted Remix)’ by Nathan Evans
Betty’s Notebook by Nicholas Reeves
Penderecki’s ‘Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima’, performed by the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Tchaikovsky’s ‘Waltz of the Flowers’ from The Nutcracker
’One Day I’ll Fly Away’ by Joe Sample and Will Jennings
Eric Whitacre’s Sleep, performed by the Joby Burgess Virtual Marimba Choir
Feldman’s King of Denmark, performed by Joby Burgess
Xenakis’s Psappha, performed by Joby Burgess
Nicole Lizée’s The Filthy Fifteen, performed by Joby Burgess
Rebecca Dale’s Can’t Sleep, performed by Joby Burgess

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Guitar guru Miloš invents a new game with Sam as they chat about his latest album, The Moon & the Forest. Meanwhile BBC Young Musician inspires some analysis of Ruth Gipps’s underperformed Horn Concerto. PLUS all the usual shenanigans, jingles and Star Trek references. Fascinating.

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Listen to Miloš’s latest album, The Moon & the Forest: https://milos.lnk.to/ListenNowWE

Watch Annemarie Federle perform the Horn Concerto by Ruth Gipps at the BBC Young Musician 2020 Grand Final: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09h7qxn

The Bogota Philharmonic Orchestra perform Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man in the city centre: https://www.facebook.com/filarmonibogota/videos/291096602634329/

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Music referenced:
‘Tim and Sam’s Podcast’ written and performed by Harry Sever
Fanfare for the Common Man by Aaron Copland
‘Oh Gloria Inmarcesible!’ (Oh Unfading Glory!), performed by Shakira
The Sarabande from Bach's 4th cello suite, performed by Yo-Yo Ma
Ruth Gipps’s Horn Concerto, performed by David Pyatt and the LPO and under Nicholas Braithwaite
Joby Talbot’s Ink Dark Moon, performed by Miloš and the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Ben Gernon
Howard Shore’s The Forest, performed by Miloš and the National Arts Centre Orchestra under Alexander Shelley

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Mother of God! The boys are back from their Easter break, unboxing all things film music with Oscar winner and reluctant Top of the Pops performer Anne Dudley. PLUS, they interrogate mid-20th-century British composer Geoffrey Bush on the 101st anniversary of his birth.

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Sound and Music’s Fair Access Principles: https://soundandmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2020_SoundandMusic_FairAccessPrinciples_Graphic_280220_final.pdf

Anne Dudley accepts her Oscar : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdJXznkTkvA

Mark Simpson’s brand-new Violin Concerto: https://www.marquee.tv/videos/lso-benedettitchaikovskysimpson
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Music Referenced:
‘Tim and Sam’s Podcast’ written and performed by Harry Sever
’Lento ma non troppo’ from Bush’s Divertimento, performed by the Royal Ballet Sinfonia under David-Lloyd Jones
‘The Aquarium’ from Saint-Saens’s The Carnival of the Animals
Alan Menken’s ‘Magic Rose’ theme from Beauty and the Beast

In their latest set of shenanigans, the boys bend time with Johannes Brahms and talk to one of the world’s leading clarinettists – and No. 1 Jamiroquai fan – Julian Bliss. Buckle up for a wild ride.

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Pre-orer Julian Bliss’s new recording of the Brahms clarinet sonatas: https://smarturl.it/BrahmsSonatas

Watch Worcester Cathedral’s mutton-chopped Canon Precentor Michael Brierley announce the big news: https://twitter.com/WorcCathedral/status/1373617040393703424

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Music Referenced:
‘Tim and Sam’s Podcast’ written and performed by Harry Sever
William Byrd’s Ne Irascaris Domine, performed by Ely Cathedral Choir and Durham Cathedral Choir
Brahms’s Piano Trio No. 2 in C Major Op. 87 – I. Allegro, performed by Joseph Szigeti, Pablo Casals, and Myra Hess
Maurice Ravel’s Rhapsodie Espagnole, performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker under Pierre Boulez
‘I Feel Pretty’ from Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story
George Gershwin’s ‘I Got Rhythm’, performed by the Julian Bliss Septet
Brahms’s ‘Denn es gehet dem Menschen’ arr. Bliss, performed by Julian Bliss and James Balliol
Brahm's’s Sonata for clarinet in E-Flat Major, No. 2 – III. Andante con moto – Allegro, performed by Julian Bliss and James Balliol

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In an episode dangerously overburdened with wholesomeness, the boys chat to saxophonist YolanDa Brown about her multiple MOBO awards and life as a Ceebeebies presenter. There’s also a heartwarming email exchange with master of the queens music Judith Weir – and the big secret behind the Star Trek Original Series theme is revealed.

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Click here for YolanDa’s fabulous music resources, ideal for ages 5–7: http://twinkl.co.uk/yolanda

Wenatchee High School student get round the problem of social distancing in band rehearsals: https://twitter.com/thehoffather/status/1364707538990632961/photo/2

Judith Weir talks about her composing and characteristics she’s identified within her work:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T92hx9ldA4E

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Music Referenced:
‘Tim and Sam’s Podcast’ written and performed by Harry Sever
’Tequila’ by the Champs
The Kaiviti Silktails performing ‘Mo Ravi Vei Jisu’
’Blackbird’ by the Beatles
Judith Weir’s ‘Blackbirds and Thrushes’, performed by George Mosley and Ian Burnside
The Springwatch them tune by David Poore
The first movement from Erich Korngold’s Violin Concerto
The main theme from Star Trek the Original Series by Alexander Courage
’We Beseech Thee’ from Stephen Schwartz’s Godspell

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Avast mateys. The boys are back from extended shore leave with a trunk full of classical doubloons. In today’s episode Tim talks to Raymond Yiu about his unconventional route into composing, Anthony Burgess and a new disc with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Sam discusses common pitfalls in music analysis and the controversies surrounding Dr Susan McClary.

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Read Olivia Giovetti’s article in VAN, ‘A Most Violent Year’: https://van-us.atavist.com/beethoven-brink
Find our more about Opera North’s ONe-to-ONe: https://www.operanorth.co.uk/whats-on/one-to-one/

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Music Referenced:
‘Tim and Sam’s Podcast’ written and performed by Harry Sever
’Transylvanian Hunger’ by Darkthrone, performed by Prince Midnight
Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, performed by the Berlin Phil and Wilhelm Furtwängler
’Mr Blue Sky’ by Electric Light Orchestra
Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, performed by Jonas Kaufmann, Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin
’Proud of Your Boy’ by Alan Menken, performed by Menken and Adam Jacobs
‘Intro’ from Mica Levi’s soundtrack to Jackie
Main theme from Steve McQueen’s Mangrove, written by Mica Levi
The London Citizen Exceedingly Injured by Raymond Yiu, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra under David Robertson
The World Was Once All Miracle – IV. Allegro scorrevole by Raymond Yiu, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Roderick Williams under Sir Andrew Davis
Symphony by Raymond Yiu, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Andrew Watts under Edward Gardner
Chick Corea’s ‘La Fiesta’ performed by Chick Corea, Brian Blade and Christian McBride

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