In this pretentious and overly verbose classical music show, your host will meander, adagio style, upon a diverse variety (dead white men) of the infamous classical canon. I will linger (fermata style) on the facts and figures that will either send you into an instrumentally-induced sleep or fire up the musicologist buried within you, tingling your prefrontal cortex with scrupulous harmonic, structural and contextual analysis. In this highly sophisticated show, my knowledge and insight as an undergrad music student will be put to the test, as will my ability to engage listeners who are more atuned to the likes of Radiohead and Paramore with the likes of Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev. Can I bring you rondo to your senses?
Track | Artist | Time |
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Bach: Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht, BWV 211 "Coffee Cantata" - Aria: Ei! wie schmerckt der Coffee süße | Carolyn Sampson, Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki | 14:04 |
Gymnopedie #1 | Erik Satie | 14:09 |
Coates: By the Sleepy Lagoon | London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras | 14:13 |
Shostakovich: Tahiti Trot (Tea for Two) | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly | 14:17 |
Vaughan Williams: The Wasps - Ouvertüre | BBC Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin | 14:22 |
Electric Counterpoint (Part III) | Steve Reich Performed By Wiek Hijmans | 14:34 |
Electric Counterpoint (Slow) II | Steve Reich | 14:38 |
Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy - Andante non troppo | Leonard Bernstein | 14:44 |
Johann Strauss II: Wein, Weib, Gesang | Wiener Philharmoniker, Willi Boskovsky | 14:46 |
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op 71 - 14. Act 2, Character Dances (Divertissement): Coffee (Arabian Dance) | Kirov Orchestra, Valery Gergiev | 14:56 |