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The essence of "classical" music is, nearly always, to disturb you. It is emphatically not Muzak; it is not "relaxing" background noise. Yeah, music is beautiful but it's not just pretty saccharine sounds or a nice Hummel figurine. If music doesn't disturb us in some way, if it just mindlessly repeats received conventions, then something is deeply wrong.

So: Composed music from all over the world, from 25 centuries ago to works premiered this morning. Familiar works in extraordinary performances; special rarely-heard music; comparisons of performers, styles, and traditions with context from history, politics, art, philosophy, science, and culture; and the occasional live concert -- all presented in a somewhat mad style.

The station archive is user-hostile; you can download complete Beethoven 9 shows from this list.
Playlists may be a bit cryptic, but you'll figure them out.

(Sometimes the broadcast will have the end of the show brutally hacked off. Don't panic! The complete show will be posted here!)

  ● coming soon! - some live Casals Schumann, Schubert ● hair-raising Bohm complete concert beethoven egmont, 4, 7 ● some amazing Bach organ ● astonishing Brahms 4 abendroth 1928 ● wagner wesendonck flagstad beecham
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yr month day		 coming soon! - some astounding B9s! ● Gladkov Return of Ulysses ● higdon str quartet 'southern harmony' ● schnittke komissarin ● vasks sym for strings ● some splendid live concerts by the Australian Chamber Orch
  2021 09 29 coming soon! - hovhaness sym 21 ● beethoven missa solemnis szell live ● frank martin mass ● scriabin sym 1 golovanov
  2021 09 22 coming soon! - casals brahms sextet 1, pno trio 1 ● marriner: bridge enter spring, foulds april-england, bridge summer, bax november woods ● havergal brian sym 28 ● piston sym 5
  2021 09 15 schnittke ritual jansons ctgebouw live 2009 ● beethoven qrt op.132 griller qrt ● bartok music string perc celesta kegel ● BORIS tchaikovsky sym 2 fedoseyev ● shostakovich execution of stepan razin kegel
  2021 09 08 grace williams sea sketches ● vaughan williams sea sym hickox live, serenade to music 2x: wood 1938, hickox 1995 ● ethel smyth str qrt ● e- arnold english dances groves
  2021 09 01 dvorak cello cto fournier scherchen 1962 ● strauss don Q tchaikovskaya annamamedov ● elgar cello cto tchaikovskaya again ● bach cello ste 2 demenga ● villa-Lobos bachianas brasileiras 1 kondrashin ● dessau bach vars
  2021 08 25 tippett qrt 2 lindsay qrt ● complete live concert w Mullova, Wispelwey, Bezuidenhout (Beethoven vln, vlc sons, Schubert trio 2) ● Vasks vla cto ● Sestak sym 3
  2021 08 18 koechlin heures persanes (orchestral ver) ● bartok violin concerto (+ ligeti 2 dances) kopatchinksaya live 2015 ● carmen basacopal cto for harp, timps & string orch ● sauguet mirages
  2021 08 11 zelenka te deum 1711 luks ● dvorak 8 harnoncourt VPO 2004 ● janacek jealousy ovr mackerras pro arte + qrt 1 tognetti arr str orch +pohadka bylsma ● smetana qrt 1 flonzaley ● martinu qrt 3 prazak + sym 5 norrington (all live except smetana)
  2021 08 04 vaughan williams xmas carol fant stokowski live ● brahms clarinet qnt brymer allegri ● tippett cto double string orch belohlavek live ● wordsworth sym 8 ● holst rig veda choral hymns ● elgar sym 1 boult 1976
  2021 07 28 beethoven 3 ● piano cto 4 kempff ● brahms 4 (live 1950) ● shchedrin stalin cocktail ● vaughan williams 4 rozhdestvensky 2012
  2021 07 21 bach art of fugue ristenpart ● beethoven great fugue furtwangler live 1954 ● mahler 5 kondrashin danish RSO live 1975
  2021 07 14 jokes in haydn sym 68 & 93 ● haydn cello cto in C, du pre LA chamber orch foster live 1967 ● danielpour cello cto ● vaughan williams hodie
  2021 07 07 complete Savall orch concert: Marais Alcyone, Bach suite 4, Corelli Folia, Handel Fireworks ● Lundquist sym 7 In Memoriam Dag Hammarskjold ● Ravel piano trio orch'd Y-P Tortelier
  2021 06 30 brahms ballades gilels 1977 ● tippett 4-horn son tuckwell ● krek horn cto ● dallapiccola partita noseda 2010 live ● malipiero pantea, maderna cond 1965 live ● respighi roman fountains, pines, festivals sinopoli NYPO
  2021 06 23 beethoven piano sons op.109,110,111 badura-skoda ● strauss zarathustra mitropoulos concertgebouw live ● barber agnus dei corydon ● wagner gotterdammerung furtwangler scala live ● copland sym 3 bernstein tanglewood live
  2021 06 09 ravel gaspard orch constant ● stephan mus for orch; mus 7 strings, pno, hrp; music for vln-orch ● weinberg pno quintet; violin concerto ● tomasi symphonie tiers-monde
  2021 06 02 Furtwangler: sibelius en saga 1943 live, wagner tristan prel-liebestod 1942, beethoven coriolan 1943, syms 3, 4, 5 (1944, 1943, 1943 all live)
  2021 05 26 mozart clarinet cto collegium aureum ● brahms cl qnt capucon bros ● shostakovich sym 15 kondrashin munich 1972 live ● aho sym 15 ● walton troilus cressida (chaucer) ste
  2021 05 19 weinberg sym 21 'kaddish' grazinyte-tyla ● beethoven quartets op 132, 135 played by paganini qrt (1950s) ● walton henry V concert ver marriner live
  2021 05 12 santos rainy may muses sextet ● furtwangler pno qnt (clarens quintet) ● mahler 2 bernstein, washington live concert against nuclear arms
  2021 05 05 alwyn lyra angelica alwyn conducting ● el-khoury november in my soul nov 2015 live ● mozart sym 31 paris harnoncourt ● ravel violin & cello sonata kopatchinskaya gabetta live ● trunk quartet in a- ● karayev in the path of thunder suite 2
  2021 04 28 kats-chernin cto for 8 basses 'the witching hour' live ● beatrice rana 2019 recital: chopin etudes II, ravel miroirs, stravinsky firebird, 2 chopin prels ● debussy cello son arr string orch live ● havergal brian cello cto, sym 9 (groves)
  2021 04 21 raihala ardbeg (tone poem) ● brahms piano qnt denk, members of st paul CO live ● dvorak cello cto casals schneider live ● smetana vlast ancerl boston SO 1969 live (with audible thunderstorm in last half)
  2021 04 14 ravel quartet lener rec.1933 ● martinon qrt 'ravel' ● martinon cond: ravel tombeau de couperin boston SO live 1965 ● stravinsky petrouchka, sibelius en saga chicago SO 1965 live ● heather schmidt sym 1 'manufactured landscapes'
  2021 04 07 vasks cello cto ● complete jerusalem qrt 2018 concert: janacek qrt 1, schulhoff 5 pieces, dvorak qrt 13 ● dvorak te deum elder CSO 2009 live ● janacek glagolitic mass orig ver janowski, with comparison of janacek's original and revised versions
  - - more older shows coming, too! --------
 
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