Cacophony - Steve Thomas

CACOPHONY: GREAT CLASSICAL MUSIC

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Hear more. Feel more. Be more! Come with me and dive into some great classical music. For over 1000 years great musicians have explored what it means to live, love, die and everything in between: asking all our deep and universal questions. Escape the cacophony - the noise of your brain and daily life; tune into the music, your feelings and emotions ‘good’ and ‘bad’ …and find the space, stillness and love that underpins everything. NB: May include loud noise, surprises, challenges, cacophonous racketMay cause shock, comfort, discomfort, smiles, tears, peace, transcendence

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Cacophony - Steve Thomas

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Lockdown Music 18: The best piece ever? Rossini's William Tell 04.05.2020 3:47

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

Lockdown Music 16: Joy by the river - Robert Schumann's 3rd Symphony 02.05.2020 4:10

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

Lockdown Music 15 - Away with the Fairies - Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream 02.05.2020 2:31

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

Lockdown Music 14: Preaching to the fish and singing to the donkey - songs by Mahler 29.04.2020 4:26

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

Lockdown Music 13 - Postcards from another time and place - The Pines of Rome 28.04.2020 3:18

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

Lockdown music 12: Sixteen Swans a Singing - Sibelius 5 27.04.2020 3:24

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

Music for lockdown 11: Swan Lake - the end! 25.04.2020 1:45

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!

Music for lockdown 10 : Swan Lake [2/3] 24.04.2020 3:30

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

Music for Lockdown 9: Swan Lake - National dances 23.04.2020 2:24

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)

Music for lockdown 8: Borodin Polovstian Dances 22.04.2020 2:07

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

Music for lockdown 7: Ravel Mother Goose 21.04.2020 1:51

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

Music for Lockdown 6: Haydn's 'Philosopher' Symphony 20.04.2020 4:09

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

Music for lockdown 5: Bernstein Prelude, Fugue and Riffs 19.04.2020 1:38

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

Music for the lockdown 4: Copland Clarinet Concerto 18.04.2020 2:26

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

Music for the lockdown 3 - Copland: Quiet City 17.04.2020 2:03

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!

Music for the lockdown 2 - Grieg: Peer Gynt 16.04.2020 2:25

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!

Music for the lockdown 1 - Bartok Romanian Folk Dances 15.04.2020 2:12

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

Smiling music: Dvorak Symphony No.8 [1/4] 14.05.2019 15:32

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]

Smiling music: Dvorak Symphony No.8 [2/4] 14.05.2019 13:20

Smiling music: Dvorak Symphony No.8 [3/4] 14.05.2019 8:40

Smiling music: Dvorak Symphony No.8 [4/4] 14.05.2019 13:17

Gardens of Discovery 5 - Ravel: Mother Goose 14.05.2019 11:09

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 Fa...

Gardens of Discovery 4 - Messiaen: Garden of love's sleep 14.05.2019 17:28

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...

Gardens of Discovery 3 - Takemitsu: Spirit Garden 14.05.2019 19:22

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. Sp...

Gardens of Discovery 2 - Debussy: Prelude 14.05.2019 13:54

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 w...