We are delighted to be working together with BBC Radio Surrey on a monthly feature – the Sunday Listening Club in which festival volunteer Isabel Dawson and presenter Kevin Duala will be exploring music’s potential to lift the spirits and enticing listeners who might be new to classical repertoire to give some of our themed listening ideas a try along the way.
Episode 21 – Flaming June – click here for this month’s playlist, including Marquez, Sibelius, Strauss, Pepin, Grainger, Still, Nielsen, Esenvalds and lots more! And you can listen to the programme again here on the BBC website from around 3’20”.
Episode 20 – Happy Birthday Bach & Co! – click here for this month’s playlist including Bach, Clyne, Rachmaninov, Maconchy, Sondheim and lots more.
Episode 19 – Rustle of Spring – click here for this month’s playlist including Judith Bingham, Ravel, Richter, Gershwin, Sindig, R Strauss and Gilbert & Sullivan.
Episode 18 – January Joy! – click here for the extended playlist, including The Edwin Hawkins Singers, Sibelius, Parry, Irving Berlin, Vivaldi and Glinka.
Episode 17 – Christmas is coming…! Click here to access the playlist, including Duke Ellington, Sally Beamish, Jacob Collier, Rimsky Korsakov and more.
Episode 16 – Getting to know Kevin! – a special episode getting to know BBC Radio’s new Sunday morning presenter Kevin Duala with musical choices marking key moments in his life so far, including The Real Thing, Handel, Jackson 5, Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Eric Whitacre. Listen to the full playlist here including a few extra football-related tracks from Shostakovich, Martinu and Michael Nyman.
Episode 15 – Greatest Hits of the Listening Club! – click here to access the playlist including Vaughan Williams, Arvo Part, Meredith Monk, James Macmillan, Bernstein & Luke Howard.
Episode 14 – The changing of the seasons. Click here to access the full playlist including music by Richard Strauss, Peter Maxwell Davies, Imogen Holst, Nat King Cole, Arvo Pärt and Orlando Gibbons.
Episode 13 – Music fit for a queen – click here to access the full playlist including Handel, Judith Weir, John Ireland, Mozart, Irving Berlin and more…
Episode 12 Oockooing Birds. Click here to access the full playlist including works by Vaughan Williams, Birtwistle, Daquin, Stanford, Messiaen, Jonathan Harvey, Handel, Rameau and more….
Episode 11 – Early Promise. Click here to listen to the playlist including one of Mozart’s earliest piano pieces, Natalie Klouda’s Piano Trio No.1, Vaughan Williams’ first published work ‘Linden Lea’, plus Ruth Gipps, Clara Schumann, Schubert, Rachmaninov, Mark Simpson, Paganini and more.
Episode 10 – New Beginnings. Click here to listen to the playlist including music by Richard Strauss, James MacMillan, Kaija Saariaho, Jonathan Dove, Thomas Arne, JS Bach, Ravel and more.
Episode 9 – Christmas approaches…! Click here to listen to our Advent playlist including Tchaikovsky, Bach, Vaughan Williams, Sibelius, McDowall, Britten and lots more.
Episode 8 – Back to School! Click here to listen to works by Holst, Arnold, Chopin, Saint-Saens, Britten, Debussy and more.
Episode 7 – Choral Glories. Click here to listen to the tracks included in this month’s programme by Vivaldi, Arvo Pärt, David Fanshawe, Anna Lapwood and Leonard Bernstein – plus further listening by Vaughan Williams, Berlioz, Rachmaninov, JS Bach, Ethel Smyth, James MacMillan, Meredith Monk and more!
Episode 6 – Invitation to the Dance – click here to listen to this month’s playlist including works by Rameau, Dowland, Barber, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Lerner & Loewe, Wallen, Glass, Seeger, Joplin, Bach and lots more!
Episode 5 – Midsummer Magic – click here to listen to this month’s playlist including Byrd, Mendelssohn, Purcell, Bray, Nielsen, Beamish and lots more!
Episode 4 – Bringing it back home! – access the full playlist here including works by Ruth Gipps, Frank Bridge, Vaughan Williams, Ethel Smyth and Stephen Goss.
Episode 3 – Musical Grand Tour – access the full playlist here!
Episode 2 – Breaking down barriers – click here to listen to the playlist
Episode 1 – Spring – click here to listen to the playlist
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