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Duration: 1 Hour

Verbosa Lacrimosa

Thursday, 9 Oct 2025 - 14:00

Description

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?


Credits


Presenter

Hannah Brown

Tracklist

Track Artist Time
Finzi: Intimations of Immortality Op. 29 (Wordsworth): There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream Philip Langridge/Liverpool Philharmonic Choir/Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra/Richard Hickox 14:04
Haydn: Piano Trio in G, Hob.XV:25 - III. Rondo all'ongarese. Presto Beaux Arts Trio 14:15
Haydn: String Quartet in G minor, Op 74 No 3, "Rider" - IV. Allegro con brio Takács Quartet 14:18
Handel: Water Music, Suite No.2 in D Major, HWV 349 - II. Alla Hornpipe Academy of Ancient Music, Sir Neville Mariner 14:26
Handel: Flammende Rose, Zierde der Erden, HWV 210 Carolyn Sampson, The King's Consort 14:30
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 in D BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis 14:37
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker - Waltz of the Flowers Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle 14:44
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 23 in F minor, Op 57 "Appassionata" - III. Allegro ma non troppo - Presto Igor Levit 14:53