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In the final episode before the summer, Carl looks at a pivotal moment in musical tonality; Wagner's 'unplayable' Tristan und Isolde.
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This weeks episode focuses on Beethoven's intense work scored for 2 violins, viola and cello.
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In this extra-terrestrial episode, Carl discusses the piece that British composer Gustav Holst is most famous for: his tribute to the planets!
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This week's episode focuses in on an aria from Giuseppe Verdi's groundbreaking opera La Traviata.
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What would you do if you were asked to write music for a prestigious awards ceremony? Brahms clearly took it to mean 'Write music for a student party'. Which is exactly what he did. Here is his Academic Festival Overture.
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This week's episode focuses on Faure's requiem which has a completely different mood and tone to Mozart's requiem in how it views the topic of death.
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Back from his break, Carl looks at Robert Schumann's Symphony in C major which he wrote at a particularly painful time of his life.
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On a completely different note (and tone and genre), Carl looks at American Composer George Gershwin's opera 'Porgy and Bess'.
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This week, the longest river of the Czech Republic is the subject, thanks so Bedrich Smetana's gripping tone poem all about his homeland.
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This week, Carl talks about Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic suite based on the Middle Eastern tales 'One Thousand and One Nights'.
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This week, Piano concertos are back on the menu, this time written by Beethoven. It's his 5th and last Concerto, entitled 'Emperor'.
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Elgar's beloved orchestral work is the subject of this weeks episode in which Carl explores the last segment - the composer's self-portrait.
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This week, solo piano is on the repertoire, as Carl looks at the music revolutionary, Franz Liszt.
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A relatively unrecognised work when it was performed, Mendelssohn's 5th symphony was written in honour of the Confession of Augsburg, a pivotal moment in the life of Martin Luther.
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This week, Carl looks at Czech Composer Antonin Dovrak's infamous work, his 'New World' Symphony.
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This week comes the 'Händel Largo' with which Carl talks about the raw beauty of something so simplistic.
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This week, Carl talks about the music of Dame Ethel Smyth, regarded as the 'Forgotten Woman of Classical Music'.
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Mozarts prime time from the last episode gives way to his darkest hours in this episode where Carl looks at the last piece he ever wrote.
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