A summer-themed programme …. …. even though Tim hates summer. How strange is that!! Playlist: 05 December 2021 – Janáček: Glagolitic Mass: I. Orchestral Introduction. City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/...
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It’s the world of less common musical instruments in this show. Plus the celebration of William Blake‘s birthday with two different settings of his poem The Lamb. Playlist: 28 November...
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What mood are you in? Sunny, dramatic, peaceful, energetic, ….? Whatever you’re feeling, there is music to suit in this episode of Queen of the Night. Playlist: 21 November...
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… surely the stand-out piece in tonight’s programme is The Seal Lullaby. Simply gorgeous! Or maybe you have a different favourite? Playlist: 07 November 2021 – Strauss Jnr: On the...
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This programme was broadcast on World Polio Day and at the end of Australia’s National Bird Week. And also at the end of a week where the Victorian Pride Centre,...
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Get your fill of alliterative composers from Armand Arensky to Richard Rogers. It’s your host, Tim, having a bit of fun in choosing this programme’s magnificent music. 🙂 Playlist: 17...
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Celebrating George Gershwin on his birthday – an original in terms of crossover music – classical and jazz …. and even pop for those who remember Australian Normie Rowe‘s...
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It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day! Who knew so much piratical music has been written and played? Thank heavens Tim spares us! He shares only three pirate jokes 😉 Playlist:...
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What a bonanza of a show! In this edition of QOTN, Tim brings together music that celebrates old Europeans, a modern Australian, and the era of film, on screens large...
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Hopeful, inspiring, uplifting – that’s this podcast … an eclectic mix of classical, opera, film, pop, ambient music. We’d love to hear from you! To make requests and give feedback...
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Mixing it up a bit on Queen of the Night – celebrating what would have been the King of Pop’s 63rd birthday. We hear some of Michael Jackson’s music, jazz...
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This more calm and restful programme is not without its kick. You are warned! 🙂 Playlist: 22 August 2021 – Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty op. 66: Act II: Scene...
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This podcast features music inspired by Sir Walter Scott, Scottish novelist, poet, playwright, and historian, whose birthday it it is on the day of this live broadcast. And we have...
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It’s lockdown No.6 so, in this podcast, we have music featuring that number – opus, prelude, symphony, number, sextet, sei voci …. but Four Seasons??? Playlist: 08 August 2021 –...
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Your presenter, Tim, has Olympic connections so no question that this programme’s music has Olympic connections too – librettists, composers, performers. And it can all be enjoyed without flexing a...
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This playlist, featuring only US composers, celebrates the 4th of July. It’s a little late due to Tim’s attack by larynx killer bugs. Playlist: 11 July 2021 – Williams: Born...
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Your host Tim returns to the airwaves, live, after JOY’s move to brand new studios at the Victorian Pride Centre. The (mostly!) joyful music in this podcast suits the successful...
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This week’s programme features the work of German poet Friedrich Rückert. Tonight we hear four of his poems which Gustav Mahler set to music. There are three lieder from Strauss...
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Your presenter Tim’s enthusiasm for opera and ballet is evident as he talks about three productions in Melbourne at the moment – the ballet Swan Lake and the operas Aida...
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From death to life to love and the moon …. enjoy the musical journey. Playlist: 02 May 2021 – Rutter: Requiem: IV. Sanctus. Choir of King’s College, Cambridge & City...
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Tim and his partner have moved house. In exhaustion and relief Tim celebrates with this musical selection. Listeners will enjoy it too! Playlist: 25 April 2021 – Handel: Suite for...
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It’s Radiothon time again and your host Tim brings out some of your most popular requests for the occasion. Listeners respond so well to Radiothon that by the end of...
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Your Queen of the Night plays Kiwi-themed music to celebrate the creation of a travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand / Aotearoa / The Land of the Long White...
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Tim plays Easter music on this Easter Sunday broadcast. Nothing more needs be said …. except Best Easter wishes to you! Playlist: 04 April 2021 – Anfossi: La Morte di...
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Your host Timothy Perry made it to 35 a few days before this show was broadcast. In this programme he understandably, and thankfully agreeably, indulges his passions, especially when it...
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A prize – or Congratulations! at least LOL – if you knew it was International Day of Forests on the day this programme was broadcast. It was, and Tim plays...
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Telephone music and Gilbert & Sullivan – wonderful or woeful? No such controversy about additional Japanese-inspired music that follows. And much more besides … even a Christmas carol sneaks in!...
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Queen of the Night says “Welcome to Autumn!” Aaaah, those balmy days and cooler nights. Playlist: 07 March 2021 – Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde: II. Der Einsame im...
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This programme celebrates Finnish Culture Day, aka Kalevala Day and, belatedly, Lunar or Chinese New Year. Thus we have music by Finnish and Chinese composers and music with themes from...
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This programme crosses centuries and genres. It starts with music of two wooden puppets, one Italian, the other Russian. Elvis Presley’s Wooden Heart would fit right in …. but doesn’t...
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Wake up, open your eyes, new possibilities await … this week’s theme is sunrise! Listen out for a very ‘special’ first in Tim’s 11 years of presenting Queen of the...
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From the Wild West to a Zombie Apocalypse to the Antarctic…. What more could anyone possibly want? Well Tim has plenty more for you to enjoy! Playlist: 17 January 2021...
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The calendar has been re-set, looking forward positively. In this podcast, some names that will be heard often during 2021 are introduced, celebrating their lives and the gifts that their...
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In the final Queen of the Night programme for 2020, Tim is determined that, no matter what, the year has a happy ending …. even if it only comes to...
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Your presenter Tim Perry is overJOYed to be back in the studio, broadcasting live this Christmas Edition of Queen of the Night. Tim presents 100% beautiful music, not a jingle...
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From Schumann to Elgar …. and various points in between. Links between composers, subject matter, instruments. Listen out for the links or simply enjoy the music. Playlist: 06 December 2020...
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What do Puccini, Charlie Chaplin, Faure, Elgar, Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss II, Grieg, and Janacek have in common? They all had moustaches! This is your presenter Tim’s very subtle Movember...
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This programme was originally presented shortly after the death of Sir Sean Connery. As a tribute to him, this episode of Queen of the Night includes music from several of...
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Your host Tim matches fabulous music to various ‘celebrations’ of the infamous of this date. Check out the characters and events of history, literature, film, given below. What music would...
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A few birthdays, a successful life and working partnership, entirely beautiful music. Chill! Playlist: 25 October 2020 – Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, op.23: II. Andantino Semplice....
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Concerto good, double concerto better? …. If yes, then this is a ‘better’ podcast with several double concerti – or should that be concertos? Oh, either will do 😉 Lots...
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For a change of pace, the early part of this show is music without strings. We also have music by and for royalty, some Covid therapy, and much more. It’s...
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If you have a taste for bells, cello and oboe – or indeed Liszt, Rautavaara, Beethoven (of course Beethoven!) and more – then this is your Queen of the Night...
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The past week has been National Deaf Awareness Week 2020. This programme celebrates the music of composers who became deaf later in life plus one composer, Arvo Pärt, who commented...
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This week it’s a (mostly) JOYful show from your JOY 94.9 radio station. Some music is rousing (Vielen Dank, Herr Bach!), and some is quieter, perhaps for relaxing in your...
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To celebrate Roald Dahl‘s birthday, this programme features music from films of two of his books, including your presenter Tim’s favourite. There’s music from an Olympic gold medallist and Gallipoli...
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From time to time moral questions are raised about artworks. In the middle of this podcast of beautiful music, your presenter Tim ponders how to separate the music from the...
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The return of the Collins Street peregrine falcons to lay their eggs is a life-affirming event in these anxious times. The falcons inspire the bird theme of this week’s show....
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For lovers of the kilt, a fine Scottish thread runs through this Queen of the Night program … which also includes some very un-Scottish pieces! Playlist: 23 August 2020 –...
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Is classical music the music of men who died centuries ago? Or can music classified as electronic by a popular music source also be described as classical? You be the...
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Marking Stage 4 Corona Virus lock-down, this episode of Queen of the Night has a close affinity with the number 4. Check out the play list! Enjoy the music!! Playlist:...
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Olympics, levity, legends and more – this program is designed to lift your spirits and take your mind off isolation, masks and sanitiser. Playlist: 02 August 2020 Vivaldi: L’Olimpiade: Del...
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Sad but uplifting – only in music is this not a contradiction. This edition of Queen of the Night farewells Harriet, who died during the past week. Harriet was a...
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This Queen of the Night podcast is for our times, music to soothe the stresses and strains of living in a time of pandemic. If it’s hard to find a...
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Queen of the Night celebrates birthdays, keyboards (3 pieces this week), and Morricone. Ennio Morricone, who died on 06 July 2020 at the age of 91, composed 400+ film scores,...
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In 1846 one Antoine-Joseph “Adolphe” Sax, a Belgian musician and inventor, patented the saxaphone. The saxophone is celebrated in this edition of Queen of the Night with music from various...
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Calm and relaxing – but definitely not bland, boring or saccharine! That’s this edition of Queen of the Night. Playlist: 21 June 2020 Wassenaer (attributed to Pergolesi): Concerto Armonici no.1:...
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This week’s show includes music that is rousing, dreamy, crazy and more. It also celebrates the birth in 1799 of a writer who inspired so many composers, one Alexander Pushkin,...
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It started with Priscilla …. Let your imagination run riot! This week’s theme is Opera Drag, with your host starring in all the soprano show-stopper roles. Tim might or might...
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This programme first aired during National Volunteer Week 2020. This week’s music is chosen by or played for some of JOY’s fabulous volunteers. There are some “top of the pops”...
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Tim is super-excited to be back in the studio after The Virus forced the show to be pre-recorded at home. Lots of joyful music in this podcast … and the...
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From A Summer Place and Gone with the Wind to Karl Jenkins’ arrangement of Beethoven, there’s enough here to make you swoon …. maybe even more than a little ♥...
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With “the fourth” being the day after the original broadcast of this programme, what else but a decent serve of Star Wars? Plus more, naturally – including a bit of...
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This is the JOY 2020 Radiothon edition of Queen of the Night. Please go to JOY’s web page to donate, subscribe, join or renew your membership. Support JOY 94.9 ……...
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Does A sound like B? Can you hear Waltzing Matilda in the Hummel? Something to listen out for in this programme? Playlist: 19 April 2020 Beethoven: Mass in C: Benedictus....
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We start with challenging music this week, first with the disonance of the gloomy sounding “From the House of the Dead” and move on to, in times of virus, doing...
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COVID-19 is not the biggest thing of 2020! That would be Beethoven 🙂 But if self-isolation is driving you mad, you’re not alone … there’s plenty of madness in opera!...
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This week, we start and finish the programme looking to the heavens, with glorious music in between. In a time of pandemic and uncertainty, we can rely on the familiar,...
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Is it history or is it trivia? Learn about the Ides of March, why 15 March 44 BC was significant for Julius Caesar, then listen for the neat segue to...
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We celebrate International Women’s Day with a playlist filled by music from wonderful women composers. Playlist: 08 March 2020 Cecile Chaminade: Flute Concertino in D major, op.107. James Galway, flute....
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Queen of the Night celebrates 10 years on air at Joy 94.9 with a programme mix of classical and film crowd pleasers plus some of Tim’s favourites. Congratulations to Tim...
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In this podcast we start with ballet music, end with a funeral march and have some wonderfully deep Russian bass voices, and more, in between. What’s not to enjoy! Playlist:...
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In this show we have a selection of sacred and secular classical music. There is also some music that might put you to sleep (surely not!) and wake you...
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A potpourri of music awaits in this podcast. As he died during the week prior to this broadcast, there is a special tribute to Kirk Douglas with music from the...
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In this episode, Queen of the Night celebrates Chinese New Year. Each Chinese New Year, the show begins with film music composed by Tan Dun. The tradition continues! In the...
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Three firsts of note in this show, which went to air on the Australia Day long weekend …. the 26 January premieres of Cosi Fan Tutte (1790) and Der Rosenkavalier...
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This program went to air on Melbourne’s Midsumma Carnival day. Unsurprisingly, the music in this edition of Queen of the Night reflects midsummer, carnivals, and fairs! Also, 19 January is...
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In this program, some vague connections – titles, year of composition, country of origin, anniversaries. Enjoy! Playlist: 12 January, 2020 Adolf Jensen: The Heiress of Montfort: Ballet Music. Philharmonie Baden-Baden/...
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Welcome to Queen of the Night with Timothy Perry for 2020. Also, in this year of Beethoven, welcome to the return of podcasts. In tonight’s show, music of the 1920s or...
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Music this week includes: Sergei Prokofiev, from the score to the film Ivan the Terrible Vangelis, Across the Mountain from the film Alexander Yehudi Menuhin and Ravi Shankar, “Prahabti” Gustav...
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This week, Pop songs rearranged in baroque-ish style. Music includes: Philip Glass, music from the film Powaqqatsi Gustavo Santalolla, string quartet, music from the film Brokeback Mountain Fréderic Chopin, Piano...
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This week it’s all brought to you by the letter K! Music includes: Aram Khachaturian, Masquerade Waltz Elena Kats-Chernin, Naïve Waltz Dmitry Kabalevsky, 1st Cello Concerto, II. Largo Alexandr Dmitriyevich...
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Music this week includes: Verdi, Overture from Rigoletto Carlo Bergzoni, Su Profetssa, Monta Il Trepie Frederic Chopin, Scherzo No. 2 Franz Léhar Das Land Des Lächelns, Operette in Drei Akten...
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Music this week includes: Gustav Holst, Japanese Suite, The Dancing Marionette John Lanchbery, The Tales of Beatrix Potter film score Gabriel Fauré, Cantique de Jean Racine Ernest Chausson p. 21, Concert...
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Music inspired by, about and relating to the moon, on this the fiftieth anniversary of the first lunar landing.
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A collection of orchestral dances for your evening listening pleasure.
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Music this week includes, Franz Josef Haydn, 92nd symphony, third movement Vaughn Williams, Oxford Elegy Giovanni Bottesini, Arabian Nights, The Desert Alan Hovhaness, Oror (op. 1) Rufus Wainwright, Hometown Waltz...
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This week, we start with Maria Callas and go from there! Giacomo Puccini, Tosca, “O dolci mani” with La divina, Maria Callas. JS Bach, Prelude for lute in C minor...
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It’s cold outside. Here’s some music for when you want to revel in the icy weather. This week, music includes: Batman (1989) overture, Danny Elfman Seventh Symphony, Symphonia Antarctica with...
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Looking at nature, clouds and full moons this week. Music includes: Two movements from Sean O’Boyle’s River Symphony Blue Danube waltz, sung by Richard Tauber ‘Ferry Me Across the Water’...
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Some music from unexpected people, places and styles. This week includes: Otto Nicolai Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor – Overture Fantasia on Greensleeves – Ralph Vaughn Williams Sacred Songs no....
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What better time than a rainy Sunday for a trip through the movies? And we have a welcome to winter this week. Bear McCreary, Godzilla: King of the Monsters The...
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This week Tim is joined by his mum and their mate Russ. Our woodwind-heavy show this week includes: La forza del destino Giuseppe Verdi Renate Tebaldi, soloist WA Mozart Oboe...
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This week, a selection of songs reflecting this year’s Radiothon theme: Love. Music includes: Nino Rota Love theme from Romeo and Juliet Giuseppe Verdi Rigoletto Belle filia del amore La...
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This week we’re looking at some music from films and other works for an artistic frame of mind. Our program this week includes selections from Tosca, Offenbach and Beethoven.
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A selection of classical music to get you ready for the week ahead. John Williams Duel of the Fates Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Original Score Jóhann Jóhannsson “Model of...
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What else did that guy do? Ah, er, nothing that you’d heard of. This week, the notable works of one-hit wonders. Carl Orff O Fortuna Chor Der Deutschen Oper Berlin...
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This week, we listen to some unique film scores, music by local Melbourne composers and a piece or two that sounds simple yet is musically deceptively complex. Music includes: Howard...
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This week we look at the two different Viennese Schools of classical music, and Tim is joined by his shadow-broadcaster-in-training Aidan! Music includes: JS Bach Toccata And Fugue In D...
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This week we look at composers and artists whose names are geographical – a search that’s come up with some nice finds. This show includes: J.S. Bach Concerto No. 2...
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