Episodes
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A cool and funky wedding anniversary present - a 15 minute classic from the most famous composer alive, Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks is stylish, sophisticated and hugely enjoyable!
Listening time 23 mins (podcast 8', music 15')
Music here, played by the Ensemble InterContemporain conducted by Pierre Boulez, on Youtube, Spotify, and (links to the 1st movement) on Amazon and Apple Music.
If you like to watch people playing, this video is also good.
You can buy a hi quality download at Presto Music for a few quid.
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Pianist Rolf Hind introduces one of the epics of piano music. A heady mix of virtuoso composing and devout faith, Olivier Messiaen's 20 reflections on the infant Jesus, Vingt regards sur l'infant Jésus, brings us a two-hour deep dive of awesome power and beautiful stillness.
Listening time 38 mins (plus music 2hrs 8')
Music here on Youtube, played live in concert by Rolf Hind. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W34IlnsDX8&t=4521s]
Be quick and go see Rolf play this at Durham Cathedral.
Visit Rolfhind.com for more information on our excellent guest!
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If you’d like to support Cacophony there are easy, great, ways:
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Hot off the press! The wonders of modern tech allow us to enjoy Katharina Nohl's rhapsody for piano and orchestra, Spices, before it's even been performed by live musicians! And Katharina joins us to talk us through the recipe.
Listening time 33 mins (podcast 15', music 18')
The complete music here on Youtube.
What do you think? Tell me with a comment at www.cacophonyonline.com! I'd love to hear from you!
Check out our earlier conversation with Katharina about her life and Swiss female composers as part of Cacophony's Women's World Cup of Classical Music...
and visit https://www.katharina-nohl.ch/
If you’d like to support Cacophony there are easy, great, ways:
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Always entertaining the crowds, Haydn brings up his 50 with typical style (before settling down for 50 more symphonies). Not a famous piece but well worth a listen!
Listening time 27 mins (podcast 9', music 18')
Music here on Youtube, Spotify, Amazon and Apple Musics played by the Swedish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Béla Drahos. You can buy the recording as a download from Presto music: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/7926758--haydn-symphonies-volume-27
What do you think? Tell me with a comment at www.cacophonyonline.com! I'd love to hear from you!
Check out the playlist of 126 pieces by different women composers from the 32 countries that played in the Women's World Cup: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCXUbmBaA9Orj2ENFMutv-X1u6DO162hA&si=nw23RYztmTC-ntyr
If you’d like to support Cacophony there are easy, great, ways:
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It's the Women’s World Cup of Classical Music! And it's THE FINAL!
USA vs Republic of Ireland
Complete music here: hthttps://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCXUbmBaA9OoRjafAn_k1zTnHR8cH9qyj
Please listen to the music and then:
vote here: https://forms.gle/XJoU1Vr3MfWraQL48
Voting open NOW
Please share the podcast widely, by telling people you know and getting them to listen and vote!
If you want to explore further, there are podcast interviews with some of our curators at cacophonyonline.com or wherever you listen to Cacophony.
And if you're able to, you might like to buy us a coffee, and support women composers, which you can do at www.Kofi.com/cacophonyonline
Come back for more next time and thanks for listening!
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Maja S K Ratkje joins Cacophony at the Women's World Cup to explore the fun and joy of writing music and choose pieces by her Norwegian colleagues. But there must be something in the Norwegian water, as there's the same tiny inspiration for several of the composers!
The complete pieces on Maja's list can be heard here:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCXUbmBaA9Orpqp5R5jfX-LzBIjoUeRim
Listening time 31 min (podcast 18', music, 13')
Discover more about Maja and her music at her website:
https://ratkje.no and check out more of Cacophony's conversations with female composers.
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 leave an appropriate message!
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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.
Singer, Gabriella di Laccio is our guide to music by women from Brazil - a melting pot of traditions and cultures that ends up with music that sounds... Brazilian!
Listening time: podcast 27mins, music playlist 20 mins
The complete music is available in the YouTube playlist.
You can discover more about Gabriella di Laccio on her website: https://www.gabrielladilaccio.com;
Donne - Women in Music, home of Gabriella's indispensable 'Big List' of Women composers is here at: https://donne-uk.org
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 Brazil - leave an appropriate message!
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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 episode we turn to Canada, where Melissa Hui's selection is typically diverse with living composers who are first nations, Canadian born and immigrant.
Melissa brings her thoughtfulness and insight to a playlist that might challenege our perceptions, but will leave us satisfied.
Listening time: podcast 26mins, music playlist 31 mins
The complete music is available in the YouTube playlist.
You can discover more about Melissa and her music on her website: https://sites.google.com/view/melissahui/home
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 England - leave an appropriate message!
Please share the podcast with everyone you think would enjoy this... Any contributions, shares and support most gratefully received!
Come back for more next time.
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Cacophony/ Women's World Cup of Classical Music logo created by Vanessa and Emmie Thomas.
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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.
We shift the focus to England, with Roxanna Panufnik's choice of rich and satisfying pieces from a line up of stellar composers.
Listening time: podcast 20mins, music playlist 23 mins
The complete music is available in the YouTube playlist.
You can discover more about Roxanna Panufnik on her website: https://roxannapanufnik.com
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 England - leave an appropriate message!
Please share the podcast with everyone you think would enjoy this... Any contributions, shares and support most gratefully received!
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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.
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!
Listening time: podcast 24mins, music playlist 25 mins
The music is available in the YouTube playlist
What do you think? Leave a comment or easy voice-message at Cacophonyonline.com
The Women's World Cup of Classical Music is underway at www.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 Australia - leave an appropriate message!
Please share the podcast with everyone you think would enjoy this... Any contributions, shares and support most gratefully received!
Come back for more next time.
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Cacophony/ Women's World Cup of Classical Music logo created by Vanessa and Emmie Thomas.
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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 including famous musical names we might know - but pieces we definitely won't!
Listening time: podcast 24mins, music playlist 20 mins
The complete music is available in the YouTube playlist.
You can discover more about Inés Medina-Fernández on her website: https://www.inesmedinafernandez.com
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 Spain - leave an appropriate message!
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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.
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 writing the music afresh, and why the Netherlands is famous for painters...but not composers...
Listening time: podcast 21mins, music playlist29 mins
The complete music is available in the YouTube playlist.
You can discover more about Marion von Tilzer on her website: https://marionvontilzer.com
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 The Netherlands - leave an appropriate message!
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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.
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
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 the USA - 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!
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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 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!
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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
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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
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