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Duration: 1 Hour

Verbosa Lacrimosa

Thursday, 13 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
Fantasia on Greensleeves Vaughan Williams 14:02
Langgaard: Music of the Spheres, BVN 128, The Gospel of Flowers - From the far distance. Danish National Choir, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard 14:10
Sullivan: The Mikado - The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Richard Suart, Welsh National Opera Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Charles Mackerras 14:15
Schumann: Waldszenen, Op 82 - III. Einsame Blumen Maria João Pires 14:19
The Flight Of The Bumble Bee Rimsky-Korsakov 14:25
Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty - Prologue - No 3 - Var VI. La Fée des lilas Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev 14:29
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker - Waltz of the Flowers Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle 14:30
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6 in B minor, Op 74 "Pathétique" - II. Allegro con grazia Berliner Philharmoniker, Kirill Petrenko 14:37
Beethoven: Symphony No 6 in F, Op 68 "Pastoral" - II. Szene am Bach (Andante molto mosso) Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Paavo Järvi 14:48