Podcast appearances and mentions of simon heighes

Simon Heighes' recommendation of Bach's Concerto for flute, violin & harpsichord BWV.1044

Simon Heighes chooses his favourite recording of Haydn's Symphony No 100 in G Major ‘Military'

Simon Heighes chooses his favourite recording of JS Bach's Violin Concerto in A minor.

Simon Heighes chooses his favourite recording of Handel's Coronation Anthems

Musician and composer Anne Dudley and percussionist Ruairi Glasheen embark on a musical journey across continents, centuries and styles as they add the next five tracks to the playlist. Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye also find out from specialist Simon Heighes about the background to a popular work by Bach, famously used in those old cigar adverts. Producer Jerome Weatherald Presented, with music direction, by Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye The five tracks in this week's playlist: Infinity by Imamyar Hasanov Mehter Vuruyor by Mehter She's Gone by Darryl Hall & John Oates Air from Orchestral Suite No 3 in D major by J S Bach Many Rivers to Cross by Jimmy Cliff Other music in this episode: 8 Dogs 8 Banjos by Old Crow Medicine Show Makhloogh by Googoosh 7 Heures du Matin by Jacqueline Taïeb A Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum Vietnam by Jimmy Cliff

Simon Heighes with his pick of recordings of Mozart's sparkling and tuneful Symphony no.31 in D, nicknamed the "Paris" Symphony.

Simon Heighes recommends his favourite recording of Haydn's Symphony No 49 in F minor, 'La Passione'. This sombre and darkly dramatic Haydn symphony is one of a series of visceral minor key symphonies reflecting Haydn's reaction to the German proto-Romantic literary movement, 'Sturm und Drang' – Storm and Stress – where passionate subjectivity and turbulent self-expression were the order of the day. The symphony was one of the most popular during Haydn's lifetime and its ominous, almost continuous F minor intensity and arresting dynamism still make an impact today.

Simon Heighes compares recordings of Bach's Coffee Cantata and chooses his favourite. Among Bach's secular cantatas, perhaps the most famous and frequently recorded is Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht – the Coffee Cantata – BWV 211. Probably composed in 1734 for a performance at Leipzig's Zimmermann Coffee House with the student group collegium musicum, the comic cantata satirises the Saxon obsession with coffee, depicting a family dispute between father and daughter, Schlendrian and Liesgen, at odds about the benefits of the hot drink.

Baroque music specialist Dr Simon Heighes chooses his favourite version of Bach's Motets. These technically challenging works contain some of Bach's very best music and can be thrilling in performance by a top-notch group of singers. They're also the only of Bach's vocal works that stayed in the repertoire without interruption between his death in 1750 and the 19th-century Bach Revival. Recordings reviewed include performances by The Sixteen and Voces8 & The Senesino Players. Presented by Andrew McGregor.

Simon Heighes recommends recordings of Mozart's 'Great' Mass in C minor, K427

Simon Heighes recommends recordings of Couperin's Trois Leçons de Ténèbres

Simon Heighes recommends a recorded version of Handel's Concerti a due cori.

Simon Heighes recommends the best recording of Vivaldi's La Stravaganza, Op.4

Simon Heighes recommends the best recording of Telemann's 'Water Music'

Simon Heighes recommends a recorded version of Tallis's Spem in alium

Simon Heighes recommends recordings which represent the music of Guillaume de Machaut.

The Bach-Abel Concerts. Lucie Skeaping talks to the music historian, Simon Heighes about a famous concert series which began two hundred and fifty years ago this year and which lit up London's concert life following the death of Handel. The Bach-Abel series continued for thirty years and with it J.C Bach and his compatriot, Carl Friedrich Abel introduced their opera and concert arias, symphonies and keyboard works to Georgian London.

Simon Heighes recommends a version from the available recordings of Bach's Magnificat

Simon Heighes visits an unusual recording session at the Royal College of Music where students and early recording experts have teamed up to recreate Arthur Nikisch and the Berlin Philharmonic'€™s 1913 recording of Beethoven'€™s 5th Symphony. The original recording, one of the earliest one and most successful attempts to record an entire symphony using (close to) a full orchestra, used an acoustic horn to cut into a wax disc. Simon talked to participants in the 2014 re-enactment about the challenges of re-creating a recording process that pre-dated the use of electronic microphones.

Simon Heighes compares recordings of Purcell's Ode Hail! Bright Cecilia and makes a personal recommendation

Andrew talks to Simon Heighes about a box set of operas by Gluck from Decca. In his anniversary year, Gluck is being reassessed and we are finding out that he was more than just the instigator of operatic reforms and the composer of Orfeo ed Euridice and the 2 Iphegenia operas. His career was in fact multi-faceted and, coming between Handel and Mozart, his style is a tantalising mix of late Baroque and early Classical.

Simon Heighes compares recordings of Gluck's great reform opera on both CD and DVD and makes a personal recommendation

Lucie Skeaping takes expert advice from Simon Heighes to explore the background, purpose and music of JS Bach's last great masterpiece - The Art of Fugue. At the end of his life Johann Sebastian Bach set out to create a great summary of his thoughts and ideas about an intellectual musical form he'd made very much his own - the fugue. The result is the "Art of Fugue" which he left unfinished at his death - or did he? How should we regard this work? Was it intended for performance and if so, how? Who was it written for? Lucie pulls together various recordings of the work and, in conversation with Bach expert Simon Heighes, unpicks some of the thinking behind this extraordinary composition.

Dr Simon Heighes (musicologist, broadcaster and writer) introduces a programme of Vivaldi, Wassenaer and Pergolesi.Recorded live at the Barbican, London on 31 January 2014.

Simon Heighes with a personal recommendation from CD and DVD recordings of Britten's opera The Turn of the Screw

Simon Heighes with a personal recommendation from the available recordings of William Byrd's 4-Part Mass

Simon Heighes surveys recordings of Handel's Eight Great Suites, played on harpsichord and piano, and makes a recommendation

Bach's St Matthew Passion was written in 1727 and was probably first performed as part of the Good Friday Service at Thomaskirche in Leipzig. This programme explores ways in which Bach's St Mattew Passion touches and changes people's lives. Guitarist Andrew Schulman describes what happened when he was played this music whilst he was in a coma. James Jacobs talks about the St Matthew Passion providing solace in difficult times during childhood. And singer Emma Kirkby, conductor Paul Spicer and musical historian Simon Heighes explore how the music works and what it's like to perform. Producer: Rosie Boulton.

Simon Heighes compares the available versions of Purcell's semi-opera, on CD and DVD, and makes a recommendation.

BAL Special: Victoria 400th anniversary round-up. Simon Heighes surveys a range of recordings of the greatest master of the Spanish Golden Age

Simon Heighes compares the available recordings of Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 in this anniversary year.