Living through the ups and downs of creation: Elena Kats-Chernin/ Australia
It’s Cacophony… at the Women’s Football World Cup! Elena Kats-Chernin presents her choices of music from Australia – composers who all work hard and write music of vitality, invention, intensity and often fun!… Listen
Mountains, olives and the vastness of existence: Spain/ Inés Medina-Fernández
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 epsiode, Inés Medina Fernández presents her choices of music from Spain, carefully chosen from accross the country and including famous musical names we might know – but pieces we definitely won’t!
Listening time: podcast 24mins, music playlist 20 mins… Listen
Music as a thing for shared connection: Netherlands/ Marion von Tilzer
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 episode features music from the Netherlands and Marion von Tilzer’s choices of music that gets us more connected. We’ll hear how, when a performer is relaxed, it can be like being in the audience…or writnig the music afresh, and why the Netherlands is famous for painters…but not composers…… Listen
Super excited and hyped up! Sage Shurman/ USA
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… Listen
“Planting women’s music in the collective memory of society” Katharina Nohl/ Switzerland
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. Listening time: Podcast 26 mins, music playlist 30 mins… Listen
150. Nine is the magic number! Farrenc, Nonet
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′)… Listen
149. Keeping us fresh since 1784: Haydn, Piano trio No.19
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.… Listen
148. Rituals, a riot and a revolution: Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring
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 … Listen
147. Music in the blood and poetry in the soul: Williams, Penillion
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! (25 mins)… Listen