Random Bach Podcasts

Quartet for Two is a light-hearted game about composers and an excuse to talk about music in a silly and opinionated way. Presented by composer Arthur Keegan and radio producer David Fay, the format allows playful discussion of classical music through the ages – littered with mistakes and half-baked opinions.

The game is inspired by QuartetTM the Composer Card Game © 2023 Margit van der Zwan. Buy this beautiful and brilliant game at www.quartetgames.com

​

Game play:

We use a deck of cards each featuring a composer from the 9th Century right up to the present. We draw a card each, discuss the composers and their music and then – using whatever metric we like – decide who goes through to the next round. There are also some silly wild cards thrown in to mess things up. The point isn’t who wins the game (it’s usually Bach) but just having a fun time thinking and chatting about great music.

– – – – – – – – – – –

​DAVID FAY is an Assistant Producer at BBC Radio 3 (all views expressed on this podcast his own). He tweets at: @themerelistener

ARTHUR KEEGAN is a composer. ​Find his projects and music at: https://linktr.ee/arthurkeeganmusic

—————————————————————

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Categories: Arts, Music

Tags: Bach, Beethoven, brahms, classical music, Composer, composers, early music, Fun, game, mendelssohn, Mozart, music history, silly, tchaikovsky

St. John’s Concert Series is held in St. John’s Historic Sanctuary, located in Old Towne Orange, California.

Categories: Arts

Tags: Bach, Baroque, ca, Cantata, classical music, concert, Orange, Saint John's, St. John's, St. John's Orange, vespers

WQXR’s Jeff Spurgeon hosts this unique classical music podcast which introduces a featured classical recording in each episode. Recordings are drawn from several label catalogs, including hot new releases and classic accounts, plus performances from the WQXR studios, café and concert broadcasts.

Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 38 “Spring”
Robert Schumann
Philharmonia Orchestra
Riccardo Muti, Conductor
Available on Arkivmusic.com

When it’s winter, we long for spring. So it makes sense that great music about spring would be written in winter, when we need it most. Maybe spring fever was part of the reason Robert Schumann was able to sketch out his Symphony No.1, the “Spring” Symphony, over just four days in January of 1841. And he did all the orchestration in a three-week space that February.
Something we know inspired Schumann was a poem by German writer Adolph Böttger. How inspiring was this poem? Here are two lines from the last stanza of Böttger’s poem: “O wende, wende deinen Lauf/Im Thale blüht der Frühling auf!” (“O, turn, O turn and change your course/In the valley, Spring blooms forth.”) But listen to how those German words and the opening notes of Schumann’s symphony go together. Schumann scored those words, didn’t he?
Schumann gave spring-themed titles to each of the four movements in this symphony: “The Beginning of Spring,” “Evening,” “Merry Playmates” and “Spring in Full Bloom.” He took the titles out before the symphony was published, but the work remains Schumann’s “Spring” Symphony. Here is the first movement, played by the Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Riccardo Muti.

Episodes of My Classical Podcast are available for download through the WQXR App.Download it for IOS and Android Devices.

– How to use the WQXR App.
– This recording is provided courtesy of Warner Classics/Erato

Categories: Music, Society & Culture

Tags: Bach, Classical, download, free, j, music, Podcast, s, wqxr

60 minutes of Mozart, all commercial free, with no talking DJ between songs. All songs Creative Commons by-nc-sa 1.0 licensed from the record label that isn’t evil: magnatune.com

Categories: Music

Tags: Bach, Baroque, Bassoon, Cello, Chamber Music, Clarinet, Classical, Classical Period, Classical Singing, creative commons, Daube, flute, Grieg, guitar, Harpsichord, Haydn, Hook, instrumental, Lute, magnatune, Mozart, Oboe, orchestral, organ, piano, Romantic Era, Rossini, Seidel, Straube, Tchaikowsky, ukulele, violin

Why are most reality TV podcasts done from LA and New York when most Bachelor Nation fans are everyday people like us? As Day 1, OG fans of the show, hosts Kate Young and Marcie Mangan are taking a deep look into the latest Bachelor, Bachelorette, and BIP gossip, headlines, and sharing their Midwestern spin on episode recaps.

Categories: Society & Culture, TV & Film

Tags: abc, Bach, bachelor, bachelorette, bachelornation, realitytv

60 minutes of Classical, all commercial free, with no talking DJ between songs. All songs Creative Commons by-nc-sa 1.0 licensed from the record label that isn’t evil: magnatune.com

Categories: Music

Tags: ambient, Arabic influenced, Bach, Background Mix, Baroque, Beethoven, Cello, celtic, Chamber Music, chillout, choral, christian, christmas, Classical, Compilation, Cool Guitar, creative commons, David Bowles Signature Series, Electro Rock, electronica, Ethereal, Experimental, Experimental Electronic, flute, Folk, Handel, Harp, Harpsichord, holiday, instrumental, jazz, John Buckman Signature Series, Lute, magnatune, massage, medieval, Mozart, New Age, New Age Piano, opera, orchestral, organ, Other, Philharmonia Baroque Musicians, piano, Prog Rock, Rameau, Recorder, Remixed by Four Stones, Renaissance, schubert, Theorbo, Viola da Gamba, vocal, world, World Influenced

A selection of well-known pieces, not-so-well-known pieces, and my own compositions – all played by me 🙂

Categories: Arts, Music

Tags: Bach, ballet, Beethoven, bortkiewicz, caela, Canon, Chopin, Classical, D, gerschwin, gymnopedie, harrison, In, Mozart, music, pachelbel, pianist, piano, satie, tchaikovsky

60 minutes of Baroque, all commercial free, with no talking DJ between songs. All songs Creative Commons by-nc-sa 1.0 licensed from the record label that isn’t evil: magnatune.com

Categories: Music

Tags: Bach, Baroque, Beethoven, Cello, celtic, Chamber Music, choral, Classical, Cool Guitar, creative commons, David Bowles Signature Series, flute, Folk, Handel, Harpsichord, instrumental, John Buckman Signature Series, Lute, magnatune, Mozart, opera, orchestral, organ, Philharmonia Baroque Musicians, piano, Rameau, Recorder, Remixed by Four Stones, Renaissance, schubert, Theorbo, Viola da Gamba, world, World Influenced

60 minutes of Philharmonia Baroque and its Musicians, all commercial free, with no talking DJ between songs. All songs Creative Commons by-nc-sa 1.0 licensed from the record label that isn’t evil: magnatune.com

Categories: Music

Tags: Bach, Baroque, Beethoven, Cello, Chamber Music, choral, Classical, Classical After 1800, creative commons, David Bowles Signature Series, Handel, Harpsichord, magnatune, Mozart, opera, orchestral, Philharmonia Baroque and its Musicians, Rameau, Recorder, Renaissance, Schumann, Vivaldi

These podcasts are designed to help listeners of all experiences to gain some understanding of “classical music” from the perspective of a conductor, teacher, performer, and artist – they are a synthesis of what I have gained from my life experience with this music and it is my hope that they will enable you to enjoy this music and be able to utilize the tools I provide for further listening in your life.

Categories: Music

Tags: Appreciation, Bach, Beethoven, mahler, Mozart, music

The Unexamined Partial Classical Music podcast is made by three freelance musicians/composers to explore classical music in depth in an entertaining, enlightening and comprehensible fashion. Our goal is to provide a deeper understanding of composers, musical works and musical styles, and engage in discussions on other philosophical topics related to classical music. Please visit this podcast at www.unexmainedpartial.com

Categories: Arts, Comedy, Music, Society & Culture

Tags: Bach, Baroque, Beethoven, Classical, Glenn, Gould, music, of, Philosophy, romantic, Schoenberg, Stravinsky

Café Concerts

Categories: Arts, Music

Tags: Bach, Beethoven, cafe, Classical, concerts, Mozart, music, new, npr, public, radio, wqxr, york