CACOPHONY: GREAT CLASSICAL MUSIC

My daughter declares this the best music ever! It's the William Tell Overture by Rossini. Do you agree? Podcast is the intro with music here: https://youtu.be/IkUlPLNzoBs or here on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2zRTdEf Into & music = 15 mins Please comment, like, share, subscribe to the podcast. Visit cacophonyonline.com

This is a big favourite in our house. No one matches Schumann when it comes to joyful music! Music here: https://youtu.be/wEUn3Axq6jg or on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2xgHSMW Please comment, like, share, subscribe! Visit cacophonyonline.com

Mendelssohn's music for A Midsummer Night's Dream sprinkles fairy dust everywhere and the result is simply magic! Music here: https://youtu.be/WAaF52bP9Tw or on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/35ezRoo And here too, if you want pictures: https://youtu.be/nfhaD7nZ3-0 Music + intro = 17 mins Please like, share, subscribe. cacophonyonline.com

Mahler gives us the ridiculous and sublime, heaven and earth and a bit of silliness in these three songs. Music here https://bit.ly/2W2IDl1 and here https://spoti.fi/3eYCEGX Intro + music = 17 minutes Please comment, like, share, subscribe! Visit Cacophonyonline.com

The Pines of Rome by Respighi brings us noisy children playing, moments of quiet solitude and Roman legions rolling in to leave you awestruck and maybe a bit deafened. Music here: https://spoti.fi/359cfBD or here: https://youtu.be/TdUVA0odZ6Y Intro and music = 24 mins Please like, comment, share and subscribe! cacophonyonline.com

The sight of swans inspired Sibelius in his 5th symphony but this is music that ends up about so much more... Music here on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2S6bMKX and on youtube (no pics): https://youtu.be/BDUhu-c0f3U Please like, share, comment, subscribe on iTunes or similar podcast platform! Visit Cacophonyonline.com

Drama, heartbreak and transcendental music from the end of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Music here: https://bit.ly/2yJk0ln and on spotify: https://spoti.fi/3bA0vdD The ballet on video: https://bit.ly/3atb7K3 if you want to watch dance. Act 4 begins at 1:43:15, but they've snuck an extra dance into the middle of the final number! It's nice and all, but not what Tchaikovsky wrote!

This episode brings you romance, swans and big tunes, from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. [Listening time 4' podcast and 16' music] Music here on YouTube, on Spotify here: https://spoti.fi/2VtGpMD

The first truly great full length ballet has so much good music it needs three episodes! Here's the first! Music here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCXUbmBaA9Oql0vYaX1oy82wtBiSKMOY_ or here on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2KrTnUU Listening time c15mins (podcast and music)

Ten minutes of over-the-top operatic show stopper. Pure enjoyment! Music here:https://youtu.be/FsTVF0Fu5_c and here:https://bit.ly/CiL8Igor

Forgive me - this is the first introduction where I forget to mention the name of the piece! It's the Mother Goose Suite, by Ravel and I love it. The music's here: https://youtu.be/o3rir1bWTyI or here on Spotify: https://bit.ly/CiLRavelMG

Time to get all deep and meaningful? Maybe not too much. Here's my intro to Haydn's wonderfully entertaining 22nd Symphony. And the music is here: On Spotify: https://bit.ly/CiLHaydn22 and here with video: https://youtu.be/D8h3nT3F_V0

An exhilarating and punchy fusion from the brilliant Leonard Bernstein. Music here on Spotify: https://bit.ly/BernsteinPFR and also here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-__U4tP7SeA

A simply stunning, jazzy Clarinet Concerto Music here on Spotify: https://bit.ly/CoplandClar or here, with video: https://youtu.be/9GnJBLwOjFo Both performances with the wonderful Martin Fröst on Clarinet If this moves you, please say so with a comment Rate and subscribe to the podcast Visit cacophony online.com

Evocative, moving and reflective. Listen here: https://bit.ly/CiL3Quietcity or here: https://youtu.be/QhEuqY00d-s No video today - this feels like an eyes closed kinda piece!

Four much loved pieces giving us bright mornings, quiet mourning, exotic love interest and mountain trolls! What's not to love? Here are the links to the music: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2v0oad and on Spotify: https://bit.ly/lockdownmusic2Grieg Enjoy and please comment, rate, share, so I can see whether you like it!

Six pieces in as few minutes, full of energy and joy.

Each month Cacophony brings you a major work to make you happy – there aren’t many symphonies more cheery and life-affirming than the 8thsymphony by Dvorak, a man who great tunes poured out from. [4 parts]

Each month Cacophony brings you a major work to make you happy – there aren’t many symphonies more cheery and life-affirming than the 8thsymphony by Dvorak, a man who great tunes poured out from. [4 parts]

Each month Cacophony brings you a major work to make you happy – there aren’t many symphonies more cheery and life-affirming than the 8thsymphony by Dvorak, a man who great tunes poured out from. [4 parts]

Each month Cacophony brings you a major work to make you happy – there aren’t many symphonies more cheery and life-affirming than the 8thsymphony by Dvorak, a man who great tunes poured out from. [4 parts]

Five pieces (six actually) inspired and influenced by nature and the East. When the organisers of the Paris Universal Exposition in 1889 invited gamelan players from Indonesia they introduced French composers to a whole world of new and exciting possibilities and a new direction in music. Amazing grown-up music for children. Ravel’s Mother Goose brings us gongs and pagodas and the view of the Fairy Garden blows your heart wide open.

Five pieces (six actually) inspired and influenced by nature and the East. When the organisers of the Paris Universal Exposition in 1889 invited gamelan players from Indonesia they introduced French composers to a whole world of new and exciting possibilities and a new direction in music. Messiaen's Jardín du sommeil d'amour, (Garden of love's sleep) is otherworldly, dreamy and intoxicating as a whole new world emerges from a pair of entwined sleeping lovers.

Five pieces (six actually) inspired and influenced by nature and the East. When the organisers of the Paris Universal Exposition in 1889 invited gamelan players from Indonesia they introduced French composers to a whole world of new and exciting possibilities and a new direction in music. Japanese composer Toro Takemitsu was inspired by the French composers who were inspired by Eastern culture. Spirit Garden is a meditation on the sacred spaces that are Japanese gardens.

Five pieces (six actually) inspired and influenced by nature and the East. When the organisers of the Paris Universal Exposition in 1889 invited gamelan players from Indonesia they introduced French composers to a whole world of new and exciting possibilities and a new direction in music. Languorous, sensual, dreamy, Debussy’s Prelude a l’apres midi d’un faun bends and stretches the 19thcentury western sound world.

Five pieces (six actually) inspired and influenced by nature and the East. When the organisers of the Paris Universal Exposition in 1889 invited gamelan players from Indonesia they introduced French composers to a whole world of new and exciting possibilities and a new direction in music. Debussy led the way and his piano pieces Pagodas and Gardens in the rain are fabulous pieces of aural picture painting.

Dmitri Shostakovich tries to speak the truth about the grim reality of life in 1930s Russia, whilst at the same time giving the authorities the upbeat, cheery music they wanted. An impossible task? [3 parts]

Dmitri Shostakovich tries to speak the truth about the grim reality of life in 1930s Russia, whilst at the same time giving the authorities the upbeat, cheery music they wanted. An impossible task? [3 parts]

Dmitri Shostakovich tries to speak the truth about the grim reality of life in 1930s Russia, whilst at the same time giving the authorities the upbeat, cheery music they wanted. An impossible task? [3 parts]

Schubert wrote some great music that hardly any of us know. In his penultimate Piano Sonata we eavesdrop on his search for answers and acceptance. [4 Parts]

Schubert wrote some great music that hardly any of us know. In his penultimate Piano Sonata we eavesdrop on his search for answers and acceptance. [4 Parts]

Schubert wrote some great music that hardly any of us know. In his penultimate Piano Sonata we eavesdrop on his search for answers and acceptance. [4 Parts]

Schubert wrote some great music that hardly any of us know. In his penultimate Piano Sonata we eavesdrop on his search for answers and acceptance. [4 parts]

Part 1 of 3 Sibelius's Violin Concerto is probably my favourite concerto - a magnificent, organic, unfolding where the solo violinist long unfolding song sounds like a stream of consciousness.

Part 2 of 3 Sibelius's Violin Concerto is probably my favourite concerto - a magnificent, organic, unfolding where the solo violinist long unfolding song sounds like a stream of consciousness.

Part 3 of 3 Sibelius's Violin Concerto is probably my favourite concerto - a magnificent, organic, unfolding where the solo violinist long unfolding song sounds like a stream of consciousness.

Haydn's depiction of the universe before the moment of creation is every bit as startling today as it was 200 years ago.

Verdi's Nabucco is an opera with a heady mix of religion, royalty, romance and politics and an irresistibly catchy overture that always puts a smile on my face and also introduces one of Verdi's' greatest hit tunes.

Want to hear the one about the broken duck eggs becoming the moon and stars? Thought so.

Did Strauss write a better Sunrise than the 2001 Space Odyssey theme? You decide!

Part 1/3 Mozart's short, joyful celebratory Haffner Symphony

Part 2 of 3 An elegant and sophisticated not-too-slow movement and a grumpy Mozart letter.

Part 3/3 The climax of Mozart's joyful 'Haffner' Symphony.

Welcome to Cacophony - a new podcast bringing you great music you may not know but I think you'll love: music about life, music that enhances our lives... ...with a little helpful introduction and context. This month's intro and a little burst of Richard Strauss.