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Mountains, olives and the vastness of existence: Spain/ Inés Medina-Fernández

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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
Choral | Just-is-ness | meditative | Music | Singing | transcendent

136. Where the walls of heaven are thin as a curtain: Simon Clark on Talbot, Path of Miracles

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An epic and spiritual adventure for choir, Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles captures the hope, the expectation and the moments of overwhelm (both positive and negative) of travellers on the ancient and still popular pilgrimage trail the Camino de Santiago (Way of St James).

Simon Clark, scientist, author and singer joins me to share his passion for the piece and guide us on a journey of musical and maybe spiritual fulfilment! Listening time: podcast 24 mins, music 62’… Listen
Family friendly | Just-is-ness | meditative | Music | Piano

135. Uplifting melancholy and passionate languor: Granados Spanish Dances

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Music that seems to conjure all the tastes, smells and senses of Spain – or my expectations of them (as someone who’s hardly been there): Spanish dances for piano by Enrique Granados. Perfect music if you just want to feel warmer, but it’s also an opportunity to bask (Basque? [sorry]) in some gloriously wistful melancholy that seems to underpin all six of these pieces. Somehow it’s not a melancholy that makes one feel sad – it seems as uplifting and nourishing as the warm sun on a cold winter’s day. Listening time: podcast 12 mins; music 25′.… Listen