Very often, when I tell people that I’m a classical musician, I am told, “wow, I love classical music! It’s so relaxing!” I think almost all classical musicians have heard that before, and you know what? Sometimes, it’s true! Classical music can be relaxing! But sometimes, and actually pretty often, classical music is NOT relaxing. It is exciting, emotional, passionate, and can make your heart race! Don’t believe me? Today's show is all about proving that to you. I'm going to share with you some of the most thrilling, powerful, and well, some of hte loudest music in the history of classical music. I should say SOME OF, because what we are going to play for you today is absolutely not an exhautive list. If you like what you hear today, there is so much more where that came from. What we’re going to do today is to take you through a kind of musical time machine of fast and furious symphonic music, trying to cover as many different styles and eras of classical music as possible.
NOTE: What will appear on the podcast feed is a shortened version of a full live concert I did with the Aalborg Symphony a few weeks ago. I highly recommend listening to that version as well, which features full length performances of many of the pieces I'm talking about on the show. You can find that here:
https://www.dr.dk/lyd/p2/p2-koncerten/p2-koncerten-2024/p2-koncerten-fuld-pedal-det-er-vildt-det-er-hoejt-det-er-weilersteins-stoerste-hits-12422443145
Enjoy!
Debussy La Mer
Mozart Symphony No. 41, "Jupiter"
Schumann Symphony No. 2
Brahms Symphony No. 2
How to Understand(and Enjoy!) Atonal Music, Part 2: The Wars of the 1950s
How to Listen to (and Enjoy!) Atonal Music, Part 1
The Degenerates: Music Suppressed by the Nazis
Sibelius Symphony No. 2
Dvorak Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"
Havergal Brian, "Gothic Symphony"
Bruckner Symphony No. 7
A Conversation with Gabriela Lena Frank, Composer
Shostakovich Symphony #13: "Babi Yar"
The Story of "Blind" Tom Wiggins, w/ Deirdre O'Connell
Bach Chaconne for Solo Violin
Wynton Marsalis and the "Blues Symphony"
Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Part 2
Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Part 1
Beethoven Symphony No. 8
Beethoven Symphony No. 7
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