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Duration: 1 Hour

Verbosa Lacrimosa

Thursday, 6 Nov 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
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 9 in E minor - I. Moderato maestoso London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink 14:03
The Moldau - Ma Vlast Smetana 14:16
Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 56 "The Scottish" - II. Vivace non troppo Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Yannick Nézet-Séguin 14:20
Finlandia Keven John Edusei & Chineke! Orchestra 14:26
Gershwin: An American in Paris New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein 14:37
Chopin: Waltz No 1 in E flat, Op 18, "Grande Valse Brillante" Vladimir Ashkenazy 14:58