Podcasts about monteverdi

Associate Conductor of The Sixteen, Eamonn Dougan has built a reputation as an inspirational communicator with a wide-ranging and adventurous repertoire. In addition to his work with The Sixteen, he is the founding director of Britten Sinfonia Voices and Music Director of the Thomas Tallis Society. The website Bachtrack perhaps sums him up best, praising his “remarkable knack for finding the perfect balance between allowing the emotion time to speak, while keeping everything moving.”In this conversation, Eamonn shares his passion for unearthing overlooked musical treasures, including the rich and rarely heard repertoire of the Polish Baroque. He speaks warmly about his educational work with emerging artists, advocating for ensemble singing as a distinct discipline deserving serious attention. We also discuss the origins and impact of his podcast Choral Chihuahua, created during the pandemic and now in its eighth season, as well as his approach to recording, and the lasting emotional power that music holds in his life.Eamonn Dougan is currently in Australia guest directing The Song Company for Love's Four Seasons, a compelling program exploring the cycle of human relationships through madrigals by Monteverdi, Gesualdo, and Barbara Strozzi, alongside modern works. At the time of publication, performances have already taken place in Newcastle, Wollongong and Canberra, with further concerts at the Utzon Room of the Sydney Opera House on Saturday 14 June and at the Blackheath Uniting Church on Sunday 15 June.

durée : 00:11:49 - Disques de légende du jeudi 05 juin 2025 - René Jacobs a été un nom incontournable dans la redécouverte des opéras de Monteverdi. Entre Le couronnement de Poppée et Orfeo, le chef belge enregistre Le retour d'Ulysse, en 1992.

durée : 00:11:49 - Disques de légende du jeudi 05 juin 2025 - René Jacobs a été un nom incontournable dans la redécouverte des opéras de Monteverdi. Entre Le couronnement de Poppée et Orfeo, le chef belge enregistre Le retour d'Ulysse, en 1992.

A cura di Carlo Centemeri Fin dall'inizio dei tempi, il legame tra il mondo della Grecia antica e della musica classica è sempre stato fortissimo: siamo andati a spasso tra miti e letteratura con Francesca Papasergi, autrice del podcast "Epic Win" e autentica nerd del mondo classico, e ci siamo ascoltati Monteverdi, Haendel, Vivaldi e Mendelssohn. To be continued....

durée : 01:28:06 - En pistes ! du mardi 03 juin 2025 - par : Emilie Munera, Rodolphe Bruneau Boulmier - On découvrira le quintette de Florence Price et une étonnante suite pour clavecin de Fernande Decruck. On voyagera aussi du côté du baroque avec Monteverdi et Lully, et de la musique contemporaine avec un Requiem du compositeur allemand Sven Helbig...

durée : 01:28:06 - En pistes ! du mardi 03 juin 2025 - par : Emilie Munera, Rodolphe Bruneau Boulmier - On découvrira le quintette de Florence Price et une étonnante suite pour clavecin de Fernande Decruck. On voyagera aussi du côté du baroque avec Monteverdi et Lully, et de la musique contemporaine avec un Requiem du compositeur allemand Sven Helbig...

durée : 01:28:36 - Relax ! du mardi 03 juin 2025 - par : Lionel Esparza - Le sommaire du Diapason avec en majesté : Satie, Fischer-Dieskau, le lamento della ninfa de Monteverdi, et Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

durée : 01:28:36 - Relax ! du mardi 03 juin 2025 - par : Lionel Esparza - Le sommaire du Diapason avec en majesté : Satie, Fischer-Dieskau, le lamento della ninfa de Monteverdi, et Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

durée : 01:28:21 - En pistes ! du mercredi 28 mai 2025 - par : Emilie Munera, Rodolphe Bruneau Boulmier - Le dernier disque des Arts Florissants nous propose une balade chantée dans de grandes pages de Monteverdi, Haendel et Vivaldi. La musique du XXe siècle occupe aussi une place de choix dans notre émission avec le double concerto de Britten et des mélodies de Komitas.

durée : 01:28:21 - En pistes ! du mercredi 28 mai 2025 - par : Emilie Munera, Rodolphe Bruneau Boulmier - Le dernier disque des Arts Florissants nous propose une balade chantée dans de grandes pages de Monteverdi, Haendel et Vivaldi. La musique du XXe siècle occupe aussi une place de choix dans notre émission avec le double concerto de Britten et des mélodies de Komitas.

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On today's Artful Living, we highlight 4 classical composers born in the month of May. We will enjoy the musical giants Monteverdi, Horowitz, Brahms, and Faure. You are invited to join us!

durée : 00:22:31 - Disques de légende du vendredi 09 mai 2025 - En 1983 paraissait chez Erato les " Vêpres de la Bienheureuse Vierge Marie " de Claudio Monteverdi par l'Ensemble de Lausanne, les Saqueboutiers de Toulouse et l'Ensemble d'instruments anciens sous la direction de Michel Corboz

durée : 00:22:31 - Disques de légende du vendredi 09 mai 2025 - En 1983 paraissait chez Erato les " Vêpres de la Bienheureuse Vierge Marie " de Claudio Monteverdi par l'Ensemble de Lausanne, les Saqueboutiers de Toulouse et l'Ensemble d'instruments anciens sous la direction de Michel Corboz

(1) Wie wint het Nationaal Kampioenschap Vogelfluiten? (2) Dit weekend voor de vijfde keer in Gent: de Maker Fair (3) Het Rad van Reinoud: tenor Reinoud van Mechelen op zoek naar een tweelingzus van Gorki's Mia in de klassieke muziek (4) Middagjournaal van Nele Van den Broeck

This is the second part of an episode begun last week featuring the cream of the crop of today's young artists. As with the performers heard last week, they represent the finest opera and classical singers working today; it is my distinct pleasure (and honor) to present them to you. They include sopranos Francesca Pia Vitale and Ewa Płonka; mezzo-soprano Beth Taylor; countertenors John Holiday, Key'mon Murrah, and Reginald Mobley (pictured); tenors Laurence Kilsby and Zachary Wilder; baritones Artur Ruciński and Theo Hoffman; and bass-baritones Philippe Sly, Joseph Parrish, and Georg Zeppenfeld in repertoire ranging from Monteverdi and Vivaldi to Rebecca Clarke, Hall Johnson, and Paul McCartney. It has been my pleasure to hear many of these singers live and I look forward to hearing them all again in person (and as soon as possible!) Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” At Countermelody's core is the celebration of great singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. By clicking on the following link (https://linktr.ee/CountermelodyPodcast) you can find the dedicated Countermelody website which contains additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. The link will also take you to Countermelody's Patreon page, where you can pledge your monthly or yearly support at whatever level you can afford.

Set to moving music from Monteverdi's brilliant vespers of 1610, with Anthony Thompson and Kevin Ashman leading on the trumpets, join Robert and Elizabeth in this rendering of Isaiah 26, and Psalms 18 and 17:14-15. Biblical Hebrew does not have tenses in the way that most modern languages do, so I have at times turned the tense around to make it not only a reflection on past deliverances but an active declaration that the Lord is always able to help us, and will continue to do so in the future.

The barrister Monica Feria-Tinta has been described as one of the “most daring, innovative and creative lawyers” in the UK for her work in defending our natural world. She was born in Peru and was the first Latin American lawyer to be called to the Bar of England and Wales. She began by representing indigenous peoples, from Latin America and the Pacific, setting ground-breaking legal precedents. More recently she has found herself pleading for rivers, oceans, cloud forests and endangered species. As she says: “I had become a barrister for the earth,” and she's written a book about ten of her landmark cases, called A Barrister for the Earth: Ten Cases of Hope for Our Future. Monica's music choices include Sibelius, Monteverdi and Chopin.

Episodio #170En este episodio de Dirección Coral Online te cuento cómo Banchieri y Monteverdi, aunque contemporáneos, llevaron el madrigal por caminos diferentes  Mientras Banchieri creaba comedias madrigalescas llenas de humor y sátira, inspiradas en la commedia dell'arte, Monteverdi elevaba el género con poesía refinada y dramatismo intenso. Comparo sus diferencias literarias y musicales, sus públicos y su impacto, para mostrar cómo coexistieron sin competir en la Italia del siglo XVII.

Wat biedt energie, troost, plezier, bezinning? Een goed gesprek aan tafel, met veel muziek. Elke zondag van 18:00 - 20:00 uur op NPO Klassiek. Hans den Hartog Jager is kunstcriticus, schrijver en curator, Hij studeerde Nederlands en kunstgeschiedenis en kijkt met een nieuwsgierige en kritische blik naar de wereld om zich heen. Hij scheef monografieën over onder andere Vincent van Gogh, Andy Warhol en David Hockney. Hij debuteerde in 2003 met de roman Zelf God worden, waarin zijn fascinaties voor kunst, kijken en interpretatie bij elkaar komen. Hij publiceerde essays en interviews en stelt als curator ook tentoonstellingen samen. Zijn culturele landschap voert onder andere langs het werk van een voor hem ondergewaardeerde schilder, een videoclip waar je naar blijft kijken en een opera van Monteverdi.

MISES EN SCENE le mercredi et vendredi à 9h30 et 18h30.  Chronique théâtrale animée par Géraldine Elbaz qui traite de l'actualité des pièces de théâtre. Cette semaine, Géraldine nous parle de 2 spectacles "Tout le Monde écrit des Chansons" et "Une Histoire de la Musique en 80mn" de Julien Joubert au Théâtre Montmartre Galabru. Tout le monde compose des chansons. Tout le temps. Sous la douche, en marchant, dans la voiture… Certains – et c'est le cas de Julien Joubert – ont décidé d'en faire leur métier. Cette pièce ne vous donnera pas la recette pour écrire un tube mais elle permettra à chacun – qu'il soit musicien ou non – de pénétrer de manière ludique et théâtrale, les mystères de la composition. Une causerie comique et pédagogique pendant laquelle nous balayeront plus de 50 000 ans de musique (!). On y parlera de la naissance de la polyphonie, de la rencontre entre contrepoint et harmonie ; on chantera, on composera ensemble, on y rencontrera (façon de parler) Josquin des Prés, Monteverdi, Bach, Mozart, Schumann, Debussy, le Jazz, la musique de variété, la musique contemporaine… Que les fans de tuning se rassurent, on en parlera aussi, c'est promis. Renseignement : https://theatregalabru.com/tout-le-monde-ecrit-des-chansons/ © Théâtre Montmartre Galabru Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

durée : 01:28:33 - En pistes ! du mercredi 12 mars 2025 - par : Emilie Munera, Rodolphe Bruneau Boulmier - Au programme ce matin, de la musique en dialogue avec l'opéra Iphigénie en Tauride de Desmarest et Campra, les voix d'I Gemelli dans les Vêpres de Monteverdi ou le duo David Haroutunian et Xénia Maliarevitch

durée : 01:28:33 - En pistes ! du mercredi 12 mars 2025 - par : Emilie Munera, Rodolphe Bruneau Boulmier - Au programme ce matin, de la musique en dialogue avec l'opéra Iphigénie en Tauride de Desmarest et Campra, les voix d'I Gemelli dans les Vêpres de Monteverdi ou le duo David Haroutunian et Xénia Maliarevitch

durée : 01:28:19 - En pistes ! du mardi 11 mars 2025 - par : Emilie Munera, Rodolphe Bruneau Boulmier - Les Vêpres de Monteverdi ont les faveurs des interprètes ces dernières années, avec aujourd'hui la version d'Emiliano Gonzalez Toro et I Gemelli. Également au programme : la musique pour clavecin de Handel, mais aussi Brahms, Chopin ou Khachaturian

durée : 00:14:24 - Le Disque classique du jour du mardi 11 mars 2025 - Une nouvelle version haute en couleur des Vêpres de la vierge de Monteverdi signée de l'ensemble I Gemelli avec le duo Mathilde Etienne et Emiliano Gonzalez Toro

durée : 01:28:19 - En pistes ! du mardi 11 mars 2025 - par : Emilie Munera, Rodolphe Bruneau Boulmier - Les Vêpres de Monteverdi ont les faveurs des interprètes ces dernières années, avec aujourd'hui la version d'Emiliano Gonzalez Toro et I Gemelli. Également au programme : la musique pour clavecin de Handel, mais aussi Brahms, Chopin ou Khachaturian

durée : 00:14:24 - Le Disque classique du jour du mardi 11 mars 2025 - Une nouvelle version haute en couleur des Vêpres de la vierge de Monteverdi signée de l'ensemble I Gemelli avec le duo Mathilde Etienne et Emiliano Gonzalez Toro

durée : 00:06:34 - Le Bach du matin du mardi 04 mars 2025 - Notre Bach du matin est tricentenaire. En 1725, le compositeur écrit à Leipzig cette cantate BWV 32 intitulée "Bien aimé Jésus objet de mes désirs". Les voix de Claron Mac Fadden et de Peter Harvey se mêlent au chœur Monteverdi et aux Solistes Baroques Anglais, dirigés par John Eliot Gardiner.

Oggi a Cult: allo Spazio 89 una speciale serata Monteverdi; Roberto Andò e Toni Servillo sul fim "L'abbaglio"; Mario Sala ed Elena Callegari con Lorenzo Loris pwer "El Marchionn e La Ninetta" all'Out Off di Milano; la rubrica ExtraCUlt a cura di Chawki Senouci...

Sarah Hart investigates the mathematical structures underlying musical compositions and literature. Using examples from Monteverdi to Lewis Carroll, Sarah explains to Steve how math affects how we hear music and understand stories.    SOURCE:Sarah Hart, professor emerita of mathematics at the University of London. RESOURCES:Once Upon a Prime: The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature, by Sarah Hart (2023)."Ahab's Arithmetic: The Mathematics of Moby-Dick," by Sarah B. Hart (Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, 2021)."Online Lecture: The Mathematics of Musical Composition," by Sarah Hart (Gresham College, 2020).Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, film (2018).The Luminaries: A Novel, by Eleanor Catton (2013).Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure, edited by Rachel Fershleiser and Larry Smith (2008).Les Revenentes, by Georges Perec (1972).A Void, by Georges Perec (1969).Cent Mille Milliards de Poèmes, by Raymond Queneau (1961).Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, by Lewis Carroll (1871).Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll (1865).OuLiPo. EXTRAS:"The Joy of Math With Sarah Hart," by People I (Mostly) Admire (2023)."Mathematician Sarah Hart on Why Numbers are Music to Our Ears," by People I (Mostly) Admire (2021).

durée : 00:17:03 - Les Vêpres de Monterverdi par Réné Jacobs - René Jacobs donne sa version des Vêpres de Monteverdi avec le chœur de chambre néerlandais et le Concerto Vocale dans cet enregistrement de 1995.

durée : 00:11:09 - "Fra l'ombre e gl'orrori" l'album de Nahuel Di Pierro avec l'Ensemble Diderot et Johannes Pramsohler - Un récital de la basse Nahuel Di Pierro qui explore 100 ans de l'histoire de l'opéra, de Monteverdi à Handel, en compagnie de l'Ensemble Diderot dirigé Johannes Pramsohler

The eternally innocent sound of the boy soprano: whether you're Christian or not, it's a sound that floats high and pure, far above our worldly cares. The boy soprano or "treble" voice has been used in Christian religious music for centuries, especially in England. True fact: Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones sang for Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey as a boy soprano! Since Medieval times, some of the Western world's greatest composers have written music for sacred services. The immersive ambience of great stone churches and cathedrals, the majestic tones of the pipe organ, and the massed voices of the choir and the worship community created the context; from it came a genre of sacred space music, including vocal and instrumental pieces, great liturgical works, and hymns and psalms of sublime beauty. It's a repertoire we come back to every year during the holiday season. On this transmission of Hearts of Space, another offering from our longtime guest producer for classical and sacred space music ELLEN HOLMES, featuring sacred choral and instrumental classics for the holiday season, on a program called "GLORIA." Music is by the boy choir LIBERA, MOZART, HANDEL, VIVALDI, CHARPENTIER, PADOVANO, STRIGGIO, PALESTRINA, MONTEVERDI, MOUTON, BENCINI, PÄRT, LAURIDSEN, and HOLBORNE. [ view playlist ] [ view Flickr image gallery ] [ play 30 second MP3 promo ]

durée : 01:28:00 - En pistes ! du mercredi 11 décembre 2024 - par : Emilie Munera, Rodolphe Bruneau Boulmier - Ecoutez une nouvelle version des Vêpres de Monteverdi. Elle est signée Vincent Dumestre et son Poème Harmonique. Prières et splendeurs vocales sont dans En Pistes...

durée : 00:14:05 - Le Disque classique du jour du mercredi 11 décembre 2024 - À la fin de sa vie, Monteverdi rassemble l'ensemble de ses œuvres pour guider les musiciens lors des offices religieux.

durée : 00:14:05 - Le Disque classique du jour du mercredi 11 décembre 2024 - À la fin de sa vie, Monteverdi rassemble l'ensemble de ses œuvres pour guider les musiciens lors des offices religieux.

durée : 01:28:00 - En pistes ! du mercredi 11 décembre 2024 - par : Emilie Munera, Rodolphe Bruneau Boulmier - Ecoutez une nouvelle version des Vêpres de Monteverdi. Elle est signée Vincent Dumestre et son Poème Harmonique. Prières et splendeurs vocales sont dans En Pistes...

durée : 00:17:41 - Disques de légende du mercredi 11 décembre 2024 - Emmanuelle Haïm et son tout jeune ensemble " Le Concert d'Astrée " livrait en 2004 un " Orfeo " de Monteverdi, qui sera leur album phare. Fruit d'une longue genèse, il aboutissait à un sommet et affirmait que le baroque pouvait être aussi une grande fête …

durée : 00:16:17 - Disques de légende du mercredi 04 décembre 2024 - Gabriel Garrido, grand rénovateur, fait basculer Monteverdi à fin du XXIème siècle dans un autre registre. Il enregistre les trois opéras entre 1996 et 2000. Les Vêpres, gravées en juillet 1999, deviennent instantanément une référence.

Join us for an immersive journey into the world of sound and creativity with electroacoustic composer, Sarah Davachi. Discover her unique methodology that combines a secular interest in pipe organs with innovative approaches to music composition and psychoacoustics. Sarah invites us into her world, sharing insights into the process behind her latest album, "The Head Has Form'd in the Crier's Choir," and reflects on her academic pursuits that enrich her art. Explore how Sarah balances the cerebral with the ethereal, blending insights from Greek mythology with modern musicology to craft evocative soundscapes. She reveals how taking inspiration from Monteverdi and Rilke helped her create a conceptual suite that embodies emotional depth and narrative coherence. Uncover her philosophy of creative limitations, where constraints are not obstacles but tools for shaping cohesive musical experiences."The Head Has Form'd in the Crier's Choir,” on BandcampFollow Paul Hanford on InstagramLost and Sound is sponsored by Audio-TechnicaPaul's BBC World Service radio documentary “The man who smuggled punk rock across the Berlin Wall” is available now on BBC Sounds. Click here to listen.Paul's debut book, Coming To Berlin: Global Journeys Into An Electronic Music And Club Culturet Capital is out now on Velocity Press. Click here to find out more. Lost and Sound title music by Thomas Giddins

Jakub Józef Orliński hat gemeinsam mit dem Kollegen Aleksander Dębicz Musik von Händel, Monteverdi und Vivaldi neu arrangiert.

Today (for what I hope are obvious reasons) begins a short Countermelody series on a few of the greatest singers that Mexico, our neighbor to the south, has gifted to the world. Contralto Oralia Domínguez (25 October 1925 - 25 November 2013) is famed for her collaborations with such musical giants as Maria Callas and Herbert von Karajan, but on her own terms, she ranks alongside those monumental true contraltos like Marian Anderson and Kathleen Ferrier. Though there is no question that she was under-recorded, she left a handful of classic commercial recordings, and a plethora of recorded live performances which an artist both technically grounded and fearless in expression, one whose legato singing exuded repose just as her phenomenal coloratura singing generates genuine excitement. I cannot say enough about this artist, who has rapidly become one of my very favorites! This episode, an expansion of a bonus episode I published a few years ago, features Domínguez in extended operatic scenes by Cilea, Saint-Saëns, and Monteverdi and in religious works by Verdi and Lili Boulanger as well as Spanish and Mexican songs, capped with some stunning vocalism in baroque works by Handel and Vivaldi. Vocal guest stars include the late great Antonietta Stella, Jon Vickers, Barry McDaniel, Luigi Ottolini, and the blazing hot verismo soprano Clara Petrella; conductors include Jean Fournet, Igor Markevitch, Alberto Zedda, Oliviero de Fabritiis, Herbert von Karajan, Fernando Previtali, Nicola Rescigno, Renato Cellini, and Leonard Bernstein. In other words, the “big guns,” an indication of the enormity of the magisterial talent of Oralia Domínguez. Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” At Countermelody's core is the celebration of great singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. By clicking on the following link (https://linktr.ee/CountermelodyPodcast) you can find the dedicated Countermelody website which contains additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. The link will also take you to Countermelody's Patreon page, where you can pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford.

Before I traveled to my home state of Wisconsin this week, I had prepared an episode to post this weekend, but in my naïveté, I had not anticipated the catastrophe that happened to my country, and to the world, when the unthinkable occurred this past Tuesday. Since then I have barely had a moment's rest, feeling gripped by a torrent of negative emotions, rage and despair primary among them. It became apparent to me that I had to give voice to those feelings in order to work through them, and in the process maybe even help my friends and listeners who are struggling with their own versions of this toxic emotional cocktail. So here is the episode I dearly wish I had not felt compelled to produce, one devoted to despair and to rage, as we attempt to convert them into resolve and determination to “stand our ground” and demand that our beloved country not go under, powerless though we may feel at this moment to prevent that from happening. I have chosen work by Poulenc, Mozart, Weill, Monteverdi, Menotti, Schumann, Schubert, and Bernstein, performed by such podcast favorites as Jennie Tourel, Judy Garland, Gérard Souzay, Maria Callas, Oralia Domínguez, Virginia Zeani, Judith Raskin, Pilar Lorengar, and others, to act as our music therapists as we struggle to regain our equilibrium, “Lost in the Stars” though we may feel at this moment. Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” At Countermelody's core is the celebration of great singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. By clicking on the following link (https://linktr.ee/CountermelodyPodcast) you can find the dedicated Countermelody website which contains additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. The link will also take you to Countermelody's Patreon page, where you can pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford.

Today I present part two of my “In Memoriam” series, honoring treasured singers who have recently died. This week I focus on male singers, covering the gamut from opera singers (Dominic Cossa, Lando Bartolini, Eric Tappy, Steve Davislim, Siegfried Lorenz) to pop stars (James Darren, Kris Kristofferson); early music singers (Howard Crook) to Broadway icons (Ken Page, Gavin Creel). As with last week's episode, each of these singers left an indelible mark in their respective musical field(s) and each loss is felt profoundly, especially those like Steve Davislim and Gavin Creel, whose time to leave this earth came much too soon. Musically speaking this is a particularly eclectic episode, featuring everything from Monteverdi and Delalande, to country western standards. Other singers heard in the episode include André de Shields and Ute Gfrerer, as well as other artists who died over the course of the last year, including Robert Hale, Norman Shetler, Rachel Yakar, and Sinéad O'Connor. Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” At Countermelody's core is the celebration of great singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. By clicking on the following link (https://linktr.ee/CountermelodyPodcast) you can find the dedicated Countermelody website which contains additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. The link will also take you to Countermelody's Patreon page, where you can pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford.

Sarah Ogilvie is a lexicographer and a proud and self-confessed word nerd: languages are her passion and are at the heart of her writing and scholarship. She worked as an editor at the Oxford English Dictionary and went on to write a book about the thousands of volunteers around the world who submitted words for its first edition. She has researched endangered languages in Australia, North America and most recently Indonesia. She is also the co-author of Gen Z Explained, where she analysed how 16-25-year-olds communicate with each other, in words, images and emojis. She's currently a senior research fellow at the University of Oxford. Her musical choices include Monteverdi, Allegri, Mozart and Nina Simone. Presenter: Michael Berkeley Producer: Clare Walker

Can music teach us how to live? In this interview Evan Rosa invites Daniel Chua—a musicologist, composer at heart, and Professor of Music at the University of Hong Kong—to discuss his latest book, Music & Joy: Lessons on the Good Life.Together they discuss the vastly different ancient and modern approaches to music; the problem with seeing music for consumption and entertainment; the ways different cultures conceive of music and wisdom: from Jewish to Greek to Christian; seeing the disciplined spontaneity of jazz improvisation fitting with both a Confucian perspective on virtue, and Christian newness of incarnation; and finally St. Augustine, the worshipful jubilance of singing in the midst of one's work to find rhythm and joy that is beyond suffering; and a final benediction and blessing for every music lover.Throughout the interview, we'll offer a few segments of the music Daniel discusses, including Beethoven's Opus 132 and the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's 9th symphony, and John Cage's controversial 4'33”—which Daniel recommends we listen to every single day, and which we're going to play during this episode toward the end.Show NotesMusic and Joy: Lessons on the Good Life by Daniel Chua (https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300264210/music-and-joy/)Can music teach us how to live?The emotional relationship we have with musicEveryone identifies with musicHow did you come to love music and write on it?MusicologistThe Sound of Music soundtrack (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeSQLYs2U8X0nTi15MHjMAWim3PxIyEqI)Listening to music at a young ageLove of Beethoven as a childWhat about Beethoven in particular spoke to you? Do you have memories of what feeling or challenges or thoughts or kind of ambitions were there?Beethoven as harder to listen to and sit through as it is quite disruptive and intellectual in styleBeethoven and Freedom by Daniel Chua (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/beethoven-freedom-daniel-k-l-chua/1126575597)What pieces in particular, or what about Beethoven's composition was particularly moving to you?Beethoven's final string quartets (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qaq881bwRI)“It's very strange. It's like the most complex and the most simple music. And somehow they speak very deeply to my soul and my heart. And you just want to listen to them all the time.”A Minor String Quartet, Opus 132 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUob2dcQTWA)A piece of thanksgiving to GodMessages sent by music as a young person about how things come togetherMusic interacts with usPlaying to understand how it is that a piece worksHow do we replicate what music communicates in our daily lives?Beethoven's Ode to Joy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0EjVVjJraA)Stephen Pinker - music is auditory cheesecake“If music is joy, then what is it? What kind of joy is it?”Consuming music is not the same as joy; music is not simply entertainmentThe fanfare of terror in Ode to Joy“Humans are strange. We are very sinful creatures so we tend to weaponize whatever we have to weaponize and we weaponize music too.”“Whatever we do with music as humans, there is something more in music that speaks beyond out puny human point of view of music.”Our view of music and joy today are too human; music is cosmicWe tune ourselves, our virtues, our wisdom to the rhythm of the universe.Joy as something we obey, we listen to.“Music isn't human. Music is actually creation.”Music, the Logos, and WisdomMusic as something that teaches us how to live.Wisdom taking delight, joy, in the universe.Music is deeply beautiful; there is profound goodness to itA lesson in flourishing found in music, in the tuning of ourselvesMusic is truthful; Christ as an instrument and salvation as being in tuneSheet music v performance as an analogy for incarnationMusic as an event that is happeningHarmony and coming together - finding one's place within the turn; Taoist and Confucian traditions“Jazz offers this fantastic expression of a different kind of wisdom born through suffering and grief.”Improvisation in jazz; an exuberance - the weird and the spontaneous alongside the orderedMusic as an opportunity for emotion and a way to communicate and understand; spirituals and slave hymns“The order of the cosmos is basically tragic. It's a bad, bad world. And music is a kind of consolation in that.”“Music can't help but be meaningful.”4'33" by John Cage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWVUp12XPpU)Whatever we are, music is there.Using music to make sense of things; really attend to the world and its music.Augustine's Book of Music “De Musica” (https://archive.org/details/augustine-on-music-de-musica/page/159/mode/2up)The spontaneous music of the worldDefiant joy in the music of slave hymns; a joy that will not be crushedA robust understanding of joyMusic tells us something about the world, the cosmos, of creation - Music reflects the heart of God.About Daniel ChuaDaniel K. L. Chua is the Chair Professor of Music at the University of Hong Kong. Before joining Hong Kong University to head the School of Humanities, he was a Fellow and the Director of Studies at St John's College, Cambridge, and later Professor of Music Theory and Analysis at King's College London. He is the recipient of the 2004 Royal Musical Association's Dent Medal, an Honorary Fellow of the American Musicological Society, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He served as the President of the International Musicological Society 2017-2022. He has written widely on music, from Monteverdi to Stravinsky, but is particularly known for his work on Beethoven, the history of absolute music, and the intersection between music, philosophy and theology. His publications include The ‘Galitzin' Quartets of Beethoven (Princeton, 1994), Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning (Cambridge, 1999), Beethoven and Freedom (Oxford, 2017), Alien Listening: Voyager's Golden Record and Music From Earth (Zone Books, 2021), Music and Joy: Lessons on the Good Life (Yale 2024), ‘Rioting With Stravinsky: A Particular Analysis of the Rite of Spring' (2007), and ‘Listening to the Self: The Shawshank Redemption and the Technology of Music' (2011).Image Credit: “Beethoven with the Manuscript of the Missa Solemnis”, Joseph Karl Stieler, 1820, oil on canvas, Beethoven-Haus, Bonn (Public Domain, Wikimedia Link)Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132: iii. “Heilige Dankgesang eines Genesenden an die Gottheit” (”Holy song of thanks of a convalescent to the Divinity”), Amadeus Quartet, 1962 (via Internet Archive)Ludwig van Beethoven, The Symphony No 9 in D minor, Op 125 "Choral" (1824), Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Otto Klemperer, Live Performance, 17 May 1956 (via Internet Archive)Traditional Chinese Music, Instrument: Ehru, “Yearning for Love” Remembering of The Xiao on The Phoenix Platform (via Internet Archive)John Coltrane, “The Inch Worm”, Live in Paris, 1962 (via Internet Archive)4'33”, John Cage, 1960trThe McIntosh County Shouters perform “Gullah-Geechee Ring Shout” (Library of Congress)

On this episode of The Hillsdale College Online Courses Podcast, Jeremiah and Juan (and a very special guest) introduce the course "The History of Classical Music:Pythagoras through Beethoven". From the time that Pythagoras developed the science of music in Ancient Greece, it took over two millennia for the greatest minds in science, philosophy, politics, and religion to discover the proper tuning of a chromatic scale. From that moment, music has been able to express the fullest range of human experience and formulate in sound elements of the human experience that cannot be articulated in words. In “The History of Classical Music,” concert pianist and Hillsdale College Distinguished Fellow Hyperion Knight explains how music has developed and what distinguishes the greatest musical achievements through the life of Beethoven. Join this course, whether you are a music novice or an aficionado of the classical style, to learn what makes music great. From the time that Pythagoras discovered the mathematical ratios of harmonic scales, it took the greatest minds over two thousand years to tune the major and minor keys. Pope Gregory I, Charlemagne, Sir Isaac Newton, and lesser-known figures like Guido of Arezzo all contributed to the advancement of the science of music building to the crescendo of Baroque operas. Significant pieces discussed include Monteverdi's L'Orfeo and J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On this episode of The Hillsdale College Online Courses Podcast, Jeremiah and Juan (and a very special guest) introduce the course "The History of Classical Music:Pythagoras through Beethoven". From the time that Pythagoras developed the science of music in Ancient Greece, it took over two millennia for the greatest minds in science, philosophy, politics, and religion to discover the proper tuning of a chromatic scale. From that moment, music has been able to express the fullest range of human experience and formulate in sound elements of the human experience that cannot be articulated in words. In “The History of Classical Music,” concert pianist and Hillsdale College Distinguished Fellow Hyperion Knight explains how music has developed and what distinguishes the greatest musical achievements through the life of Beethoven. Join this course, whether you are a music novice or an aficionado of the classical style, to learn what makes music great. From the time that Pythagoras discovered the mathematical ratios of harmonic scales, it took the greatest minds over two thousand years to tune the major and minor keys. Pope Gregory I, Charlemagne, Sir Isaac Newton, and lesser-known figures like Guido of Arezzo all contributed to the advancement of the science of music building to the crescendo of Baroque operas. Significant pieces discussed include Monteverdi's L'Orfeo and J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The beloved Irish soprano Heather Harper died at the age of 88 on 22 April 2019 in London. In music ranging from the Baroque through the modern eras, she displayed an easy mastery as did very few others, as well as a radiant voice and demeanor that made her a favorite collaborator of some of the greatest conductors and composers of the Twentieth Century. Perhaps no other singer matched her accomplishment within such a wide range of styles. This episode was originally published as an addendum to an episode I published in the second season of Countermelody. It highlights Heather Harper in two Richard Strauss roles, Ariadne and the Kaiserin; and features two works which she created, Elizabeth Maconchy's setting of Cecil Day-Lewis's dramatic monologue Ariadne, premiered in 1971, and Michael Berkeley and Ian McEwan's searing 1983 oratorio Or Shall We Die? Harper is also featured in rare recordings of repertoire ranging from Monteverdi to Busoni; Offenbach to Dallapiccola. A forgotten 1964 recording of Harper's transcendent reading of “Aus Liebe will mein Heiland sterben” from Bach's St. Matthew Passion rounds off the episode. Countermelody is a podcast devoted to the glory and the power of the human voice raised in song. Singer and vocal aficionado Daniel Gundlach explores great singers of the past and present focusing in particular on those who are less well-remembered today than they should be. Daniel's lifetime in music as a professional countertenor, pianist, vocal coach, voice teacher, and journalist yields an exciting array of anecdotes, impressions, and “inside stories.” At Countermelody's core is the celebration of great singers of all stripes, their instruments, and the connection they make to the words they sing. By clicking on the following link (https://linktr.ee/CountermelodyPodcast) you can find the dedicated Countermelody website which contains additional content including artist photos and episode setlists. The link will also take you to Countermelody's Patreon page, where you can pledge your monthly support at whatever level you can afford. Bonus episodes available exclusively to Patreon supporters are currently available and further bonus content including interviews and livestreams is planned for the upcoming season.