Discovering Music

Alfred Garyevich Schnittke から BBC Radio 3 に Discovering Music というプログラムがあることを知りました。
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/2382cbc9-dd4e-4fc8-a92e-5391f70bd3b2
Programme which examines a different piece of music each week, looking at the musical form or the composer's style, and exploring the many things contributing to the overall experience
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006tn54
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/discoveringmusic/listeningnotes/
以前の放送も聴けるようなので、以下、私のお気に入りの曲について早速チェック！
Beethoven's Symphony No 7
Stephen Johnson explores Beethoven's Symphony no 7.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qqt3h
Mahler's First Symphony
Stephen Johnson gets inside Mahler's first symphony to try and discover its true meaning among the folksongs, military fanfares, and sounds of nature that abound in his score.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01npjq8
Mahler's Resurrection Symphony
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0112czx
Mahler's Symphony No 4
With its pipe tunes and folky finale, Mahler's Symphony no.4 presents itself as the odd man out amongst the composer's grand and imposing symphonies. But is it really? Stephen Johnson explores darker undercurrents in the work, as well as shadows of the composer's other life as one of the greatest opera conductors of his day.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01g5znh
Mahler's Symphony No 5
Stephen Johnson looks at Mahler's songs and discusses how they shine a light on the character of his Symphony No 5.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02yk56g
Mahler's Symphony No 7
Mahler's Symphony no.7 was premiered in 1908 in Prague, when the composer conducted the work himself, as part of a celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the coronation of Emperor Franz Joseph. The symphony is similar to most of Mahler's other symphonies, in that the Seventh calls for a very large orchestra. Mahler termed this work as "predominantly cheerful, humorous content". Some have interpreted the finale as an outburst of enthusiastic affirmation of life.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01cwqd1
Mahler: Symphonies of Songs Episode 1
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s6sd6
Mahler: Symphonies of Songs Episode 2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s9g5j
Strauss Four Last Songs
Stephen Johnson considers two works by Richard Strauss, his early tone poem "Death and Transfiguration" and the Four Last Songs with the soprano Katie Van Kooten and the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Juanjo Mena.

These two great works were composed at opposite ends of the composer's life but both are occupied with philosophical ideas of death and the passing over to the next world. "Tod und Verklarung" - Death and Transfiguration - is a symphonic depiction of the subject and was a work that clearly came to mind when the Strauss composed his Four Last Songs in the final years of his life, as he quotes from the tone poem in the music.

Stephen Johnson considers Strauss's attitude to the subject as depicted at the begining and at the end of his life and and unpicks both pieces offering an insight in to their background and musical workings. Complete performances of both pieces were given before an audience at Nottingham's Royal Concert Hall.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014fb74