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Duration: 1 Hour

Verbosa Lacrimosa

Thursday, 16 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
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Overture, Op 21 London Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton 14:04
Puccini: Tosca - Act II: Vissi d'arte Maria Callas, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala Milano, Victor de Sabata 14:20
Puccini: La Bohème, Act 1 - "O Soave Fanciulla" Barbara Hendricks, José Carreras, Orchestre national de France, James Conlon 14:24
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde - I. Das Trinklied von Jammer der Erde Toby Spence, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin 14:30
Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit, M.55 - Le gibet Vladimir Ashkenazy 14:39
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op 14 - II. Un Bal London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis 14:45
Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty - Prologue - No 3 - Var VI. La Fée des lilas Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev 14:54
The Sleeping Beauty: Introduction Tchaikovsky 14:55